Steamgifters, do you eat horse?

i had only rabbit when i was 8 , i remember it was hard meat .
But i didn't eat horse , and i dont want to !
I want to be vegetarian one day ... even vegan

Here is pretty common :|

I've had it when I was in Japan as an exchange student back in college. I had to look it up just now and it turns out I had it as a dish called basashi. Quite nice and tasty. It gave me ever so much joy to return to the states and tell the equestrian snobs at my school that I had eaten it. I also enjoyed telling a particularly opinionated vegetarian that I had also eaten whale (it tastes terrible.)
I've also had it as sausage in my husband's home country. It was a bit lower quality than the basashi, to say the least, but it was still tasty with some bread or cooked into a rice pilaf.
But since I live in the US it's not an available meat since horses are seen as companions and work animals and not as meat.
I don't recall that I've ever eaten rabbit but I would have no problem with it. I mean, it would either be from an animal raised specifically for the meat, or something hunted. It's not like I'd be eating someone's pet.

I haven't.but i'd definitely be interested to try it,or any other odd meat.

I don't eat a lot of meat anymore but I've had horse salami when I was younger. I mean horse meat is considered a delicacy in Europe as well as Japan. I think the reason why people get so worked about certain animals being eaten is because they consider and see them as pets rather than food. In Peru guinea pig is considered to be a delicacy but since they're considered pets in most other places around the world a lot of people are grossed out by the idea of eating guinea pig. In the French and Chinese cuisine, frog legs are considered a delicacy yet I know plenty of people who'd never eat them. In East and Southeast Asia as well as Africa people eat dog meat, yet in the western world there's a lot of outrage over it because they're only considered and seen as pets here. Personally, I haven't had dog or guinea pig and if I was asked to try it I'd most likely refuse but I don't judge people for eating them simply because I account the cultural differences. I've eaten plenty of different meats in the past including kangaroo, deer, rabbit, lamb, wild boar, elk, horse, pheasant, and shark, but now I only eat chicken every once in a while. I think people need to stop trying to force their lifestyle onto others just because they think theirs is the only right one.

Tried once, didn't like much. A bit hard for my taste. Rabbit is fantastic.

Don't know how is it shocking or even rare in the slightest. It's completely normal for me. Here in Russia they sell sausages and stew made from horse meat.

Nope. It probably depends on the country you live in. We're not eating horse meat in Greece. There was a food scandal though about finding horse dna in several meat products that were coming from foreign countries. The problem is, you can't tell someone that you're selling him pig meat or cow meat, etc, while it's actually horse meat, because that's called deception and it's not allowed. Also, the horse meat that were using was from race horses that were killed because they got old, so the horse meat was full of "weird substances" that they were using to make the horses fast.

Have eaten some horsemeat sausage .. pretty good, i would say.
Rabbit too, at christmas with my grandparents - also good :)

The only reason for the outrage about horsemeat was that it was being sold as beef.. which I never really understood (there's less horses around than cows, so how could it possibly be cheaper than beef?!)

I don't understand, people complain about horses (bc of friendship or whatever) but they eat cow meat... haven't they see a cow? That is a friendly and beautiful animal too :/

I haven't. But I'd try it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0O_VYcsIk8

Eaten horse and donkey's minced meat, with some pork for more fatty goodness in a sausage, grilled. It's delicious!
We had a kind of a rabbit farm and eaten it in various ways. Love them!

I eat rabbit pretty often and I'm not sure about horse.
But I'm pretty sure the horse drama a while back was because said horse meat was from horses that were ill and were taken down because of such and were not meant to be eaten (since the animal was ill)

Any meat is fine as long as it tastes good (except human flesh, unless it's some kind of zombie apocalypse).

I think a lot of people haven't got a clue what meat is from which animal... (though in dutch 'rosbief' should give a good indication...)

It's pretty good though here in france it's not common, and people are grossed out.

Fuck this stupid country

Here in Belgium it is common for people to consume horse meat.
I believe it has a lot to do with the social behavior of ones environment.
Also having had a certain animals as pets will place it under the "pet " schema in the brain and therefor you won't be looking at it as food, whereas other animals will be labeled under the "food" schema.
I grew up with guinea pigs as pets and can't phantom them as being food.

Of course I have eaten horse meat, you can find "sfilacci" in any Italian supermarket.
Same with rabbit, it's very common.

i would but i never seen horse meat before. Bunny are good too,

Eaten horse sometimes but it's not one of my favorite meats.
Rabbit is quite common where I live, and it's tasty, but too many little bones on those tiny meat pieces.

ya i eat horse its normal in our country ( belgium) :) it all depends from country to country i think

horse meat is pretty good. not much fat and lean.
as for rabbits, i'd eat them but not if i was given a choice because theyre too cute.
but seafood is best. fresh oysters with a sprinkle of lemon.... mmmm sign me up anyday

i have eaten rabbit, tasted like chicken, never eaten horse, at least not that im aware of, i have eaten a "weird" meat Llama, its good i guess.

there is a very tasty burger joint close to my house, asked what meat they use and it was 50% beef 50% veggie meat, so thats that.