Victor Sack wrote:
> Bob Terwilliger > wrote:
>
>> Victor submitted for our attention:
>>
>>> I met the vice president, Eric Vigoureux, behind his refrigerated
>>> trailer at the market.
>> Did anybody else find that a bit odd? "Meet me behind the trailer; we'll
>> have a colloquy."
>
> The really odd bit is contained in this part:
> "In other European and Asian countries - including Japan, China,
> Belgium, Germany and Switzerland - horse meat is a dietary staple."
>
> To proclaim that horse meat is at present a staple in Germany is beyond
> ridiculous. For example, in Düsseldorf it can now be found only at two
> market stalls at two different markets (real markets, not supermarkets,
> BTW) and, to the best of my knowledge, nowhere else. There was a time
> when horsemeat was indeed commonplace in Germany, with, for example,
> Sauerbraten having been traditionally made with horse meat in the
> Rhineland and some other regions, but this is fairly rarely encountered
> nowadays, which is perhaps unfortunate, and many people would recoil at
> the mere mention of it, just like in the USA.
>
>> I had a horse cheeseburger in Italy. As noted in the article, the meat is a
>> bit sweeter than beef, but quite well-flavored.
>
> Years ago, some horse meat products could be found for a very short time
> at one of the Costco-like establishments here. I once bought some
> Bratwürste there, which just happened to be some of the best I have ever
> had, before or since. I have also eaten smoked salame-like sausages
> ostensibly prepared according to a Russian recipe, which I purchased at
> one of the branches of the local Russian supermarket chain (which is not
> really Russian, as most products are actually produced in Germany or
> imported from Poland and some other East-European countries).
>
> Victor
As late as the mid-t0-late fifties horsemeat was a commonplace staple in
the diets of US servicemen. I don't know when they stopped it but
probably about the time the movie "Flicka" came out.

George