The UK horsemeat scandal goes from bad to worse. DNA testing of the meat in an Indian restaurant’s lamb curry found no trace of lamb and furthermore “concluded that the meat chunks were not beef, chicken, pork, goat, horse or even human flesh.” Hmm… anybody seen Walt Disney’s 101 Dalmatians lately?
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There is a free mobile app called "horse meat or not" that detects if horsemeat DNA is in the food you are eating... or does it? ;-) Made my kids laugh at dinner time - take a peek at http://www.horse-meat-or-not.com
See? There's an app for that!
Installed. Now we need to go out to dinner so I can play the gag.
I suggest the Trigger tartare.
Jack in the Box.
Ultimate Cheeseburger and Frings!
Great, make sure you crank the volume up... depending what the app determines is in your food you may get a free meal!
There's something deep inside of me that thinks they are lying when they state its not human either .
Soylent greeN!
I'm wondering why they didn't test for dog and cat before the rest of them. Indians are Asians after all. They don't even know what a goat is.
Obama ate dog before . He ought to man up and go over to find out himself . Maybe Michelle could finally be proud about something else .
Dog, horse, house cat, who cares? It's all meat and as long as it tastes good I'll eat it. I survived a year of CRations so I can stomach anything.
Last time I took my sons off roading I decided I didn't want to screw around cooking so I took MRE's and MRE heaters for the weekend. My eldest son's g/f came along. She said they were better than her mom's cooking. Poor thing.
We had a British chap with the group. We had lunch with him on the way back. He told us MRE's were Meals Rejected by Ethopians. We all busted a gut laughing.
LOL...If your son marries that girl he better be ready for Burger King and Pizza Hut, unless he knows how to cook.
That one's long gone. He has a new one now. He's in Sacramento at Sac State. She works for Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. She goes up on most weekends. From the sounds of it they live on Top Ramen, chips, dip and Coca Cola. (Probably Cheetos, too). I'd bet money she'd say MRE's were good too. (Her mother's a bigger wackakdoodle than the last one's was).
I got some current MRE's frm the local food bank a while back. They weren't too bad, and a couple of them were actually pretty good. My biggest problem was that EACH MEAL was worth some 1500 calories. That's my entire daily allotment. So I broke up the contents and got at least 2 meals +snacks, or 3 meals out of each one.
Once you skim the grease off the beef & boulders, you lose about 1200 calories. Oh, MRE. Sorry I was thinking C-rats.
Never actually tried the MRE, but with enough Tabasco you can eat ANYTHING.
Which is included in evert pack! Mine were things like Penne Rigata in tomatoe and veggie sauce. Every pack included peanut butter, "cheese" some kind of cracker and one of a variety of deserts. And as I said, they were pretty good for the most part. THe one I got with scrambled eggs was kind of EH, but I am uses to organincm pasture raised eggs from a friend at church, so I'm just a touch spoiled.
They've got those calories, not to try to help anyone maintain their girlish figure, but to give a soldier the needed fuel to live and fight under foul condition. I never sat down and ate a while meal at once, and I doubt that soldiers have one in the morning, one at noon, and one in the evening.
I can just imagine the trading that goes on when a squad opens up a bunch of these, though. Tabasco for grape jelly, chiclets for chocolate.
Exactly. They even hasd directions indicating the eater should attempt to eat all of the meal if possible, and take along anything they dodn't finish for later, specifically the crackers, chhese and peanut butter. And the deserts that were packaged separately, like giant cookies. They were very carb heavy, to provide energy to those in combat.
Of those out in the desert building bridges, like I was at the time.
When my girls were little I took them on a week-long hike in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. They carried packs, but they were little packs so I was carrying most of the load. Consequently, I shaved things a little thin on the supplies. For our last meal, half a day's hike from the parking lot I'd set as our ending point, we were down to two unmatched packages of dried soup. One chicken broth and one beef broth. What the hell, I mixed the two together, added water, and heated them over the fire. Strangest thing: whatever chemicals were pretending to be chicken reacted with whatever chemicals were pretending to be beef. The chicken chemicals caused the "beef" chemicals to coalesce into lumps and harden. When the girls asked me what we were eating, I said, "Chicken soup with meatballs," 'cause that's what it looked like. They enjoyed the hell out of it.
MREs aren't too bad as long as you don't get the tuna or SOS.
Beef stew with a little C4 to heat it up was pretty good.
I used to buy MREs at the local swapmeet in Yucca Valley. Somebody was going through the waste bins at 29 Palms Marine Corp Base and "salvaging" them by the crate. I got them for under a dollar each if I bought them by the dozen.
Does the heater still have the instructions I loved so much? It said, in the text area, how to add water, fold over the top, and lean it at an angle against "a rock or something."
Then, in the diagram, it showed a drawing of the heater with food and water, leaned up against what looked like a rock, and an arrow pointing to the rock, "Rock or something."
I hate to tell you this, but a dumpster diver once removed is still a dumpster diver.
Yeah JP, but the shelf life on those things is longer than U235. As long as they were still in the cases, dumpster or not, they were still "edible"....or what passes for such. Some of the rats I had in the army were Korea era conflict stuff, and this is when Regan was in office.
The tiny bottles of Tabasco Sauce were in fine condition, I can tell you. The whole thing came to an end when the military decreed that it was illegal to possess actual military MREs. The ones you can buy now on the open market are produced specifically for the civilian market. Any that the military doesn't need are now destroyed. I guess it wouldn't do to give them to the homeless.
And during the Korean War they were eating World War II rations. Maybe that's how it always works: the soldiers of the current war eat the last war's leftovers.
Might explain why the death rate was so high in the Civil War...
When I was little we got a field trip to the Presidio. We had lunch in the enlisted mess. They had SOS. It was actually one of the more memorable meals good I ever had.
Big diff between fresh and MRE SOS.
It kinda reminds me of a quote from a Monty Python movie, "Does it got any rat in it?"
I have eaten:
Snake
Gator
Coyote
Deer
Wild boar
Grasshopper legs
And things with bugs that were still moving.
And that's just the things I can ID
Still here, still onry. I learned a lot of years ago, ain't no pride in an empty belly.
When your belt buckle is rubbing a blister on your backbone, YOU EAT.
I've sampled kangaroo, camel and crocodile in Australia and ate a red-tide poisoned barracuda that damn near killed me in Fiji. Look up "ciguatera". I thought I was going to die and for several weeks it seemed like the preferable outcome.
"Hallmark symptoms of ciguatera in humans include gastrointestinal and neurological effects. Gastrointestinal symptoms include nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea, usually followed by neurological symptoms such as headaches, muscle aches, paresthesia, numbness, ataxia, vertigo, and hallucinations. Severe cases of ciguatera can also result in cold allodynia, which is a burning sensation on contact with cold. Neurological symptoms can persist and ciguatera poisoning is occasionally misdiagnosed as multiple sclerosis."
Lovely.
"Dyspareunia and other ciguatera symptoms have developed in otherwise healthy males and females following sexual intercourse with partners suffering ciguatera poisoning, signifying that the toxin may be sexually transmitted..."
So when you said you caught if from a barracuda, you meant...?
There used to be a restaurant in Joshua Tree, CA, that had as it's sampler plate a dinner with alligator, rattlesnake, and kangaroo, with all the fixin's. I loved it.
And the local butcher shop here in Auburn has camel, along with a number of other exotic meats. I just haven't gotten around to trying it yet. Soon.
So how often did you hop over to that restaurant for some kangaroo meat?
As often as I could afford it, actually. I also had the elk, buffalo, and a variety of fish. It was a reasonably nice restaurant, which is probably why it didn't survive in Joshua Tree.
and of course everything on that list taste just like chicken.
Nope, it pretty much tasted like:
Snake
Gator
Coyote
Deer
Wild boar
Grasshopper legs
And things with bugs that were still moving.
But my chicken tasted like chicken.
LOL.
Perhaps it's the Pelosi Special: You have to eat it before you can find out what's in it.
Mmmmmm, ZombieBurgers!
So, are they trying to tell us diversity is not such a good idea when it comes to meatloaf?
DNA? We don't need no steeenkeeeeng DNA test!
My test? Taste. Is it good? Then just call it Curry, and don't worry about it.
If you ask "What's in it?" you're not really hungry.