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Christchurch pub puts horsemeat on the menu
9:17am Tuesday 12th March 2013 in Latest By Katie Clark
Horsemeat on sale here - but don't worry, it's on purpose
A PUB is quite literally flogging a dead horse as an inventive landlord bravely trials top quality equine steak on the menu.
And perhaps surprisingly for some, diners and regulars at The Nelson Tavern in Mudeford, Christchurch, are hot-hoofing it to the hostelry to chomp down on the taboo choice of meat.
The decision to add horse to the menu follows the recent discovery of horse DNA in burgers in major supermarkets such as Tesco and Iceland.
And while the discovery has been a nightmare and caused alarm among many consumers, landlord Peter Lyon, owner of the pub, said he thinks he’s backing a winner as people are more than willing to try the controversial meat.
The pub, known for their tasty Thai food as well as more traditional dishes, is offering its diners chevaline – horsemeat – freshly imported directly from French suppliers.
“Since we have put it on the menu, we’ve never been as busy,” Mr Lyon said.
“We’re fully booked some nights and of course not everyone is ordering it but it is attracting people in.
“This is not cheap meat. This is top quality ‘chevaline’ – not the meat of some old nag.
“I can’t remember it ever being served on a menu in this country in my lifetime.
“The general consensus has been that it’s very nice – as good as beef steak, just a little more flavoursome – more of a fuller flavour. There have been a lot of jokes – our customers have a great sense of humour – but at the end of the day, it’s providing people with something a bit special.”
The dish is being sold for £10.95.
Comments(42)
l'anglais
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10:43am Tue 12 Mar 13
Rational_Being
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11:11am Tue 12 Mar 13
John T
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11:20am Tue 12 Mar 13
Rational_Being wrote:Neigh, no chance!
Soon enough an Echo restaurant reviewer will be there giving it an (undoubtedly) rip roaring review.
fletch for manager
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11:32am Tue 12 Mar 13
catfan
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11:34am Tue 12 Mar 13
Horsemeat imported from France - where conditions for animal slaughter and transportation from where they are purchased to where they are killed often takes days, across from Eastern Europe. A trade we are trying to restrict. And you are condoning.
Apart from the fact it's like eating your pets, you are encouraging an evil trade in horses.
Shame on you. I have eaten at your pub - but I won't be again.
Mike Oxbig
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11:59am Tue 12 Mar 13
catfan wrote:Misery guts.... I'm sure many people would be put of all meat if they visited an abbatoir.
Frankly I wouldn't go near the place and neither would my friends.
Horsemeat imported from France - where conditions for animal slaughter and transportation from where they are purchased to where they are killed often takes days, across from Eastern Europe. A trade we are trying to restrict. And you are condoning.
Apart from the fact it's like eating your pets, you are encouraging an evil trade in horses.
Shame on you. I have eaten at your pub - but I won't be again.
bmthlad69
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12:00pm Tue 12 Mar 13
catfan wrote:don't get on your high horse!
Frankly I wouldn't go near the place and neither would my friends.
Horsemeat imported from France - where conditions for animal slaughter and transportation from where they are purchased to where they are killed often takes days, across from Eastern Europe. A trade we are trying to restrict. And you are condoning.
Apart from the fact it's like eating your pets, you are encouraging an evil trade in horses.
Shame on you. I have eaten at your pub - but I won't be again.
what about the poor chickens people eat. People have chickens as pets.
I can't see what they are doing is wrong or any different to any other restaurant.
I wouldn't mind trying it tbh.
Yum yum
Letcommonsenseprevail
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12:15pm Tue 12 Mar 13
speedy231278
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12:20pm Tue 12 Mar 13
outlawselfinterest
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12:28pm Tue 12 Mar 13
Of course the xenophobes will go off on one about everything "foreign" being awful but the REAL issue has been the inaccurate labelling of some foods, NOT the fact that the meat originates from a different animal. Fortunately the Government, rather than the Wild Sensation-seeking Tabloids, have had a measured and sensible response.
The Renegade Master
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1:03pm Tue 12 Mar 13
dan.hilmarsson
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1:08pm Tue 12 Mar 13
catfan wrote:Best go cry to PETA, because it seems the general opinion is that people would happily try it.
Frankly I wouldn't go near the place and neither would my friends. Horsemeat imported from France - where conditions for animal slaughter and transportation from where they are purchased to where they are killed often takes days, across from Eastern Europe. A trade we are trying to restrict. And you are condoning. Apart from the fact it's like eating your pets, you are encouraging an evil trade in horses. Shame on you. I have eaten at your pub - but I won't be again.
fedupwithjobsworths
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1:11pm Tue 12 Mar 13
awsokend
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1:30pm Tue 12 Mar 13
too tough for me as Ive only got one tooth
the waiter did apologise though,
said i had been served a bit of leather saddle by mistake,
the gravy was good.
bmthlad69
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1:48pm Tue 12 Mar 13
speedy231278 wrote:Very true regarding the fish haha
People have fish as pets, and people eat fish, so why not horses? At least you don't get people riding fish in the middle of the road complaining about motorists!
awsokend
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1:56pm Tue 12 Mar 13
bmthbouncer
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2:51pm Tue 12 Mar 13
H2o-hara
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3:18pm Tue 12 Mar 13
retry69
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3:22pm Tue 12 Mar 13
Azphreal
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3:35pm Tue 12 Mar 13
Eddie's dog
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3:44pm Tue 12 Mar 13
My reply: 'after 8 years in China, I can eat either.......'
Mike_French
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4:07pm Tue 12 Mar 13
" Apart from the fact it's like eating your pets, "
So what about all of the baa lambs?
Aww, aren't they cute bouncing around and look so pretty, doesn't stop people eating lamb chops does it?
WOC
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4:19pm Tue 12 Mar 13
l'anglais
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4:21pm Tue 12 Mar 13
retry69 wrote:capitalist opportunism.
very shrewd buisness move and should be congratulated
Where there is profit there is misery, look at the photo, he's serving it with fried rubbish.
No profit in good quality veg.
gemlou06
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4:39pm Tue 12 Mar 13
retry69
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4:49pm Tue 12 Mar 13
l'anglais wrote:So are you the misery? i bet you have eaten it Mr.langlais
retry69 wrote:capitalist opportunism.
very shrewd buisness move and should be congratulated
Where there is profit there is misery, look at the photo, he's serving it with fried rubbish.
No profit in good quality veg.
Horridbloke
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4:55pm Tue 12 Mar 13
scoooobles
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7:08pm Tue 12 Mar 13
Linguist
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8:22pm Tue 12 Mar 13
scoooobles wrote:Cat mmmm yes please. I wonder if it tastes like chicken?
People don't seem to care what they're eating or how it got there so why not make a few quid at the expense of the idiots? Very clever. Might as well chuck a few kitties on the grill and you'll make a fortune.
awsokend
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8:42pm Tue 12 Mar 13
(road kill)
catfan
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8:14am Wed 13 Mar 13
dan.hilmarsson wrote:Dan
catfan wrote:Best go cry to PETA, because it seems the general opinion is that people would happily try it.
Frankly I wouldn't go near the place and neither would my friends. Horsemeat imported from France - where conditions for animal slaughter and transportation from where they are purchased to where they are killed often takes days, across from Eastern Europe. A trade we are trying to restrict. And you are condoning. Apart from the fact it's like eating your pets, you are encouraging an evil trade in horses. Shame on you. I have eaten at your pub - but I won't be again.
I suspect that you and those like you have little compassion for animals. You certainly are not in possession of the facts about animal transportation and abbatoirs in some parts of Europe.
Only rubbish views that you understand and have knowledge of.
I'm sure you would eat anything - why does that no surprise me?
l'anglais
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9:11am Wed 13 Mar 13
retry69 wrote:I have eaten horse as it is provided at every market throughout France.
l'anglais wrote:So are you the misery? i bet you have eaten it Mr.langlais
retry69 wrote:capitalist opportunism.
very shrewd buisness move and should be congratulated
Where there is profit there is misery, look at the photo, he's serving it with fried rubbish.
No profit in good quality veg.
This entrepreneur (exploiter) is taken advantage of other capitalists wrong doings.
portia6
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9:50am Wed 13 Mar 13
even vege-mince, poor Dobbin!
awsokend
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10:52am Wed 13 Mar 13
I have had some fine dinners there
get out there scanning the road sides.
MngsMnr
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11:37am Wed 13 Mar 13
bmthlad69 wrote:We don't know the half of what goes on in slaughter houses and chicken factories. A few years back our electricians worked a chicken farm. The machine was faulty and the chickens were suspended by their leg - instead of the machine chopping their heads off it was slicing off a wing - blood splattering everywhere. They were having to wring their necks to finish them off. It was an experience bad enough to deter our electricians from eating chicken ever again.
catfan wrote:don't get on your high horse!
Frankly I wouldn't go near the place and neither would my friends.
Horsemeat imported from France - where conditions for animal slaughter and transportation from where they are purchased to where they are killed often takes days, across from Eastern Europe. A trade we are trying to restrict. And you are condoning.
Apart from the fact it's like eating your pets, you are encouraging an evil trade in horses.
Shame on you. I have eaten at your pub - but I won't be again.
what about the poor chickens people eat. People have chickens as pets.
I can't see what they are doing is wrong or any different to any other restaurant.
I wouldn't mind trying it tbh.
Yum yum
dan.hilmarsson
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1:57pm Wed 13 Mar 13
catfan wrote:I have plenty of compassion for animals. In fact I have plenty of pets (none of which have ended up on my plate). I would just never see a horse as a pet. Everytime I look at one I can't help but think about a nice juicy horse steak....
dan.hilmarsson wrote:Dan I suspect that you and those like you have little compassion for animals. You certainly are not in possession of the facts about animal transportation and abbatoirs in some parts of Europe. Only rubbish views that you understand and have knowledge of. I'm sure you would eat anything - why does that no surprise me?catfan wrote: Frankly I wouldn't go near the place and neither would my friends. Horsemeat imported from France - where conditions for animal slaughter and transportation from where they are purchased to where they are killed often takes days, across from Eastern Europe. A trade we are trying to restrict. And you are condoning. Apart from the fact it's like eating your pets, you are encouraging an evil trade in horses. Shame on you. I have eaten at your pub - but I won't be again.Best go cry to PETA, because it seems the general opinion is that people would happily try it.
I wouldn't eat anything actually, and as you say I probably wouldn't eat it if I knew the exact origin. But until then....
uvox44
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3:01pm Wed 13 Mar 13
suzigirl
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4:49pm Wed 13 Mar 13
mgibbs
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12:23pm Thu 14 Mar 13
l'anglais
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12:40pm Thu 14 Mar 13
uvox44 wrote:Better than his previous diet of..... HUMAN EAR
go vegan , for your health as well as the environment, as well animal welfare- and for all those dim macho types who bizarrely think eating a steak killed in some gruesome abbattior by someone else out of sight some how makes them the equivalent of the caveman hunting his prey, one your logic is broken and Mike Tyson is now a vegan - macho enough for you?
Bournesouthmouth Downpokes
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2:54pm Thu 14 Mar 13
...my spouse has eaten deer!!
So if this is still a deal next week, will be there :)
p.s. hear rabbit is the best tasting meat there is?
rozmister says...
10:22am Tue 12 Mar 13