Would you eat pony meat?

[monoloco]

The Spruce goose said:

I see a massive difference. rats live in there own st. Meat for human consumption has certain minimum standards attached. i think a lot of meat just inst as tasty as the mainstream ones. i used to east pheasant a lot as a kid, just the thought of eating it now puts me off.

Pigs aren't renowned for their hygiene or potty training either and most of us still happily eat them . Mind you, I seem to recall hearing that rat is the only meat the SAS are told by their survival course instructor not to eat under any circumstances no matter how starving they are (any ex-SAS able to confirm?) but the other meats are really only a cultural thing.

Previous job of mine involved long trips up country in some extremely remote parts of Africa, South America, Middle East, India etc and after a few weeks of eating nothing but maize/rice and bananas I'd get to the stage where I'd eat anything and the street food was just 'meat' with no differentiation as to what type so could have been anything from monkey to mongoose and impossible to tell with all the spices and mega-chili it was cooked in. However, I do know I've eaten guinea pig, zebra, llama, ostrich, horse, goat, donkey etc and it never bothered me as long as it was cooked hard enough to kill off anything dodgy parasite or bacteria-wise.

[RizzoTheRat]

Foal is honestly the nicest meat I've eaten. Apparently one advantage of horse is it doesn't get tougher as the animal gets older like a lot of meats. It's very common in some countries, shame we rarely see it on the menu in the UK except when its illegally posing as something else.

[SystemParanoia]

only if its cheap. 10-15p per kg cheap

not mixed in with other expensive meat to make more profit for the vendor.

[anonymous-user]

monoloco said:

Pigs aren't renowned for their hygiene or potty training either and most of us still happily eat them .

As a minor point of order, given the chance pigs are remarkably clean animals and will even clean their own bedding.

[LordGrover]

monoloco said:

The Spruce goose said:

I see a massive difference. rats live in there own st. Meat for human consumption has certain minimum standards attached. i think a lot of meat just inst as tasty as the mainstream ones. i used to east pheasant a lot as a kid, just the thought of eating it now puts me off.

Pigs aren't renowned for their hygiene or potty training either and most of us still happily eat them . Mind you, I seem to recall hearing that rat is the only meat the SAS are told by their survival course instructor not to eat under any circumstances no matter how starving they are (any ex-SAS able to confirm?) but the other meats are really only a cultural thing.

Previous job of mine involved long trips up country in some extremely remote parts of Africa, South America, Middle East, India etc and after a few weeks of eating nothing but maize/rice and bananas I'd get to the stage where I'd eat anything and the street food was just 'meat' with no differentiation as to what type so could have been anything from monkey to mongoose and impossible to tell with all the spices and mega-chili it was cooked in. However, I do know I've eaten guinea pig, zebra, llama, ostrich, horse, goat, donkey etc and it never bothered me as long as it was cooked hard enough to kill off anything dodgy parasite or bacteria-wise.

Wild rats may be an issue, but surely farmed rats would be no different to any other mammal?

[Angrybiker]

desolate said:

monoloco said:

Pigs aren't renowned for their hygiene or potty training either and most of us still happily eat them .

As a minor point of order, given the chance pigs are remarkably clean animals and will even clean their own bedding.

Vincent:
Want some bacon?

Jules:
No man, I don't eat pork.

Vincent:
Are you Jewish?

Jules:
Nah, I ain't Jewish, I just don't dig on swine, that's all.

Vincent:
Why not?

Jules:
Pigs are filthy animals. I don't eat filthy animals.

Vincent:
Bacon tastes gooood. Pork chops taste gooood.

Jules:
Hey, sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I'd never know 'cause I wouldn't eat the filthy motherf***er. Pigs sleep and root in st. That's a filthy animal. I ain't eat nothin' that ain't got enough sense enough to disregard its own faeces.

Vincent:
How about a dog? Dogs eats its own feces.

Jules:
I don't eat dog either.

Vincent:
Yeah, but do you consider a dog to be a filthy animal?

Jules:
I wouldn't go so far as to call a dog filthy but they're definitely dirty. But, a dog's got personality. Personality goes a long way.

Vincent:
Ah, so by that rationale, if a pig had a better personality, he would cease to be a filthy animal. Is that true?

Jules:
Well we'd have to be talkin' about one charmin' motherf***in' pig. I mean he'd have to be ten times more charmin' than that Arnold on Green Acres, you know what I'm sayin'?

[Jambo85]

The Spruce goose said:

I see a massive difference. rats live in there own st. Meat for human consumption has certain minimum standards attached.

You obviously haven't spent much time on a beef farm, particularly during the winter months! But for the record I wouldn't eat our rats either - I did try one in West Africa though, a greater cane rat, much cleaner living than ours and pretty tasty it was too!

[anonymous-user]

Angrybiker said:

Pulp Fiction

Whilst I certainly wouldn't argue with Jules, my point stands!

[ambuletz]

I'd be ok with pretty much eating/trying any animal. The only place I'd draw the line is at eating cat/dog and any form of monkey/ape species.

[Riley Blue]

Chomping Dartmoor ponies doesn't seem to be a new idea:

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29427295