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Originally Posted by HarryT
I've no idea. Simply a cultural thing, I suspect. As you know, it's certainly available in many other European countries (France, for example).
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It's used here as well...
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Originally Posted by pdurrant
The problem isn't the fact that it's horse. The problem is that it isn't beef.
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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
Wouldn't that then rule out lamb, pork, and goat too?
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Especially lamb, as they eat a lot of that on the other side of that ditch! (at least, if I have to believe Jamie Oliver, who I love to watch!)
Just read the wiki page: it's not so much forbidden as a taboo in English speaking countries... And that ban about eating horse meat is only for Roman Catholics. And it's not kosjer so Jews don't eat it either...