I’m thinking tough meat and bland flavor.
I never realized it was illegal to eat horses. I just thought people didn’t do it because horse meat wasn’t any good compared to other much tastier options. Of course that is also why even if legal most people won’t eat horse.
Yes, you can eat your horse but you won’t be able to put salt on it.
It wasn’t that it was illegal to eat horses, only that they passed a law a few years ago making it illegal to slaughter horses for human consumption.