30 Replies to “It’s Probably Nothing”

  2. much ado about nothing
    smoked horse meat was common in the nethernlands when I wuz a puppy

  3. The loser UK,home of mad cow,is worried about horse meat? Just think what they would do with a good venison steak!

  4. The Icelandic beef pies were probably stuffed with beefsteak tomatoes. Easy mistake to make; happens all the time.

  5. Who knows. Who cares. If it tastes good….eat it. If not…leave it alone. That’s the formula while times are still good. If times get really bad you eat whatever doesn’t crawl off your plate. On second thought , if it crawls off your plate and you can catch it,…you still eat it. The future could well be Soylent green. Washed down with illegal 32 0z gulps of course.

  6. And seeing as it is Friday….do you really want an answer to “what’s in a weiner these days.”

  8. Hotdogs used to be lips and a-holes, I don’t care to put much thought into what has replaced that fine blend of ingredients.

  9. Now that the disappearance of Romania’s surplus of old work horses
    has been accounted for and DNA testing is now up to speed, the next
    mystery will likely turn out to be a growing lack of farm dead stock
    impacting the British pet food industry.

  12. The menu will be changed from “quarter pounder with cheese” to “quarter horse with cheese.” Truth in advertising you know.
    mike

  13. Brown Brothers Butchers in the St Lawrence market in Toronto makes the most delicious wieners you have ever had They are proper traditional Vienna sausage and they are great boiled with sour kraut or put on a bun for a hot dog.

  14. Frank H. Sobey’s biography mentions him grilling hot dogs at the cottage and saying that wieners come from reputable packing houses. He didn’t eat hamburger. As somebody who started in the butcher shop of the original family grocery store he knew what could go into hamburger.

  16. Never, I repeat, never, opine about what’s in a hotdog.
    Life will be smoother for everyone if this rule is adhered to.

  17. Stealth inflation has been going on for years. Canadian Tire sells shorter spark plugs for small engines that crap out sooner. Bulk Halloween candy reduced in size, then packaging numbers, now size again.
    Cabbage and turnip used to sell by the head, now it sell’s by the pound. Pringles, once 180g went to 140g now is 180g again. Berries (blue and African-American) sell in 170g or 340g packaging but now 140g is being introduced. Bacon normally 500g is seeing 350g packaging size.
    None of this would be a problem if the price per product amount stayed the same… it doesn’t, the unit price always increases.
    Of note, herbicides, pesticides and lawn additives are reguired by law to list all active ingredients. That makes brand name/generic comparisons very easy and you can save money.

  18. It doesn’t take a genius to realize that since government and their cronies have gotten their hands on food production, the food supply has become corrupted. Most state-approved foods are not fit to eat and those who attempt to escape this slow poisoning by becoming self sustaining food producers are having their personal gardens raided by “authorities”.
    We were warned of this many years ago by men who were familiar with the symptoms of corrupt authority –
    “ If the people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take. Their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny” – T. Jefferson

  20. Had smoked horse meat too as a kid – a dutch thing. Never did like it tho – had a real sharp tang. Hav’nt tried it since – that i know of….

  21. According to a Global news item I watched two days ago, 90,000 horses from the U.S. are “processed” yearly through slaughter houses,mainly in Canada.
    Okay,PETA, do your stuff,find homes for 90,000 nags every year.
    WTH else are you gonna do with that many horses? I ate horse meat as a kid, am still here,though maybe it affected my mind as I simply don’t give a shi* if they use horse meat in lasagna. I make mine out of moose meat I acquired through the usual means.
    The Iceland scandal is far worse, selling meat pies with NO meat!
    There was a butcher shop on East Hastings (Vancouver) back in the 70’s that proudly announced they specialized in horse meat. Don’t know if they’re still in business. The shop was a short distance from the Exhibition Park race track,which was the inspiration for a lot of humour.
    As for weiner,when I asked my dad what was in them,her replied,” bull’s balls and cow’s twats”, which satisfied my curiosity enough that I never asked that question again.
    I read once that the USDA quality requirements for weiners was that they could contain no more than seven rat hairs per pound of meat.
    I hope weiner manufacturers today still adhere to that sensible limit.

  22. I actually do know what is in weiners (was 30 years ago). They used fine ground tripe (cow stomachs) and beef blood with the red corpuscles removed. Otherwise it was pretty much meat.
    There was also stuff that went into bologna – maybe some went into weiners. Mechanically deboned beef and fat tissue that was ground up and had the fat squeezed out of it. I like weiners.

  23. I actually do know what is in wieners (was 30 years ago). They used fine ground tripe (cow stomachs) and beef blood with the red corpuscles removed. Otherwise it was pretty much meat.
    There was also stuff that went into bologna – maybe some went into wieners. Mechanically deboned beef and fat tissue that was ground up and had the fat squeezed out of it.

  24. Are food processors playing us for fools that THEY think WE don’t notice that the carton of ice cream that was 2 litres is now 1.66?..or the tub of margarine that was 454 gr. is now 427 gr.? (just to name 2)all the while the price remains the same or sneaks upwards.
    As for the Euro-weenies…they can eat donkey…after all the phony trade restrictions they have used against North America.

  25. If people are stupid enough to eat processed food, they should worry the least whether it is horse or beef. There are things in processed foods that do terrible things to people. Almost entire mortality statistics table for every Western country consists of health effects of artificial food ingredients that should not be in food to begin with. So, I don’t care a bit for horse meat in food that’s supposed to be beef. People’s own making.

  26. Yeah well, I’m a bit of a warfare buff and there’s a lot more to war than guns and shootin’….Like the important contribution by Hornel Foods…developing the much resented SPAM….
    An associate, now deceased, claimed their field rations were “bully beef(tinned corned beef) and biscuits” and complained bitterly….then discovered hurling a can of “bully beef” into the enemy position frequently resulted in mass surrender.
    He claimed his understrength company, inreality about platoon strength, had a full strength company of Panzer Grenadiers capitulate to get fed. He said American C-rats were much prized…that the yanks would eagerly swap for the ” bully beef”.
    Then there was that kerfuffle about “pink slime”, finely ground meat separated from scraps…..that is a component of many fast food burgers…..nothin’ wrong with it…except it is literally pink slime…
    What the eye don’t see, the heart don’t greave over…..

  27. Bologna and regular hot dog production use the same feed stock
    at most packers.

  28. Born dutch I have always eaten smoked horse meat, still enjoy it now and then today. There are a lot of products on the market that I am not so sure about anymore but mainly the processed foods. I now prefer to mainly buy locally produced food items. On the same thought I have noticed, as a frequent consumer of fish, that it’s getting harder to find non Chinese produced items. I mainly have switched to domestic in this area as well.
    bverwey

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