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How Much Beef Is In Your Burger?
dgharmon writes in with an interesting article about how much (or how little) beef is in a UK burger. "The presence of horsemeat in value beefburgers has caused a furore. But what is usually in the patties? It has been a sobering week for fans of the beefburger. Tesco have used full-page adverts in national newspapers to apologize for selling burgers in the UK that were found to contain 29% horsemeat. Traces of horse DNA were also detected by the Food Standards Agency of Ireland in products sold by Iceland, Lidl, Aldi and Dunnes. But a beefburger rarely contains 100% beef."
"Two all beef patties on a sesame seed bun!" Their commercials say it, it must be true.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Probably safer, too. Ever hear of mad horse disease?
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
@Freddie_UK: A woman has been taken to hospital after eating horsemeatburgers. Her condition is said to be stable.
@BobJWilliams: I expect this only relates to those mini-burgers you have as snacks. You know, the horse d'oeuvres.
@JohnMoynes: I get all my horsemeat from an independent dodgy butcher.
@DiamondsIRL: Are you in favour of Horsemeat in your burgers? Yay or Neigh?
@GBretman: So horsemeat has been found in TescoProducts but a spokesman says It's bollocks
@pinkyperfection: I had a tesco burger and now I'm feeling a little horse
@brucel: Those Aldi horse burgers were nice, but I prefer My Lidl Pony
@PaulLewis: Scientist: "Sir, we've discovered horse meat in your burgers." Tesco boss: "Why the long face?"
@PensionsMonkey: There was an old woman who swallowed a horse, she'd been to Tesco, of course.
@elhaydo: Good thing about these horse puns is it's stopped all the sick Jimmy Saddle jokes
The best #horsemeat Twitter gags following Tesco burger blunder
Plus, all of their horses are 100% horse-fed for that double-horse juiced-in goodness!
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Vegans don't have enough meat in them to make a decent burger.
They never tell us how much dog is in our hot dogs either :(
and a few other species
Best Typo Ever!
Obviously you've never been through the desert on a horse with no name.
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I have a cat that knocked over a spice rack and rolled itsself in salt.
A bold move for a potentially edible animal.
If it had been rosemary and laurel leaves too he'd be on toast.
20 minutes into the future
In California, it is actually illegal to eat horse. It was voted on in a proposition a few years back.
Neat! Did they also say why? Or was it a spur of the moment thing?
20 minutes into the future
Horse DNA, not meat. Probably just horse semen. Nothing to worry about.
That's the thing though. When you buy a beefburger that isn't 100% beef you aren't expecting the percentage that isn't beef to be from some other animal without that being pointed out on the labelling.
You buy a pork and beef sausage you expect pork and beef in it. Not ocelot.
"Wait. Something's happening. It's opening up! My God, it's full of apricots!"
Ah, another Dwarf Fortress player.
Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
If you had a shellfish allergy, you would be more than confused.
Cow bladders, on the other hand, are offal tasty.
That would be totally wrong, labeling a hot dog as a hamburger.
Have gnu, will travel.
They fed an entire horse to a rat. The rat died. So California figured it must cause cancer or something.
Have gnu, will travel.
The best cuts are sold as cuts, because they are worth more per kilo than ground beef. Of the remainder of the cow, the grindables get turned into ground beef for burgers and the like. The non-grindables are processed into other products, mostly additives.