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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."
Try the meatballs, they're the dogs bollocks
Watch those corners
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
Vegans don't have enough meat in them to make a decent burger.
The patties are 100% beef.
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.
http://www.rootstrikers.org/
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 would be totally wrong, labeling a hot dog as a hamburger.
They fed an entire horse to a rat. The rat died. So California figured it must cause cancer or something.
Have gnu, will travel.