[elcid1970]

Always wondered what horse meat tastes like - for real.

For some reason I think of France as a place where horse meat is popular. I think I know why, too. When France was defeated by the Prussians in 1870, Paris was under siege for months and the people had to turn to horse meat & since there were plenty of dead horses from all the shellfire, it was an obvious choice.

A horse breeder wrote in to say that the do-gooders got domestic horse processing outlawed so the animals get shipped to Mexico where humane slaughter standards are unknown.

Is Alpo produced in Mexico? I don’t know.

[Karliner]

They sold horse meat in butcher shops when I was a kid but it was frowned upon. I remember folks coming to the beach( San Onofre, Southern California) with Mustang Filets and people complaining you couldn't find a good filet as they put the horse meat in the frozen food section and would sprinkle with charcoal.

The guys would make kebobs, filets, burgers, name it. I was too young to give a darn.

I do remember being with my granny at the local butcher shop and her pointing out the horse meat from the other burger meat.

My earlier days in Mexico you might get horse meat, goat meat...name it. Some of those stories are sort of legendary and a bit gross. When hungry we didn't care what was in the tacos. No idea on Alpo. I think horses are still eaten in some countrys including our own but not spoken