For some reason, eating horse meat both captures the imagination and utterly repulses the average U.S. citizen.
Maybe that’s why there was such a “Won’t somebody think of the horses!” outcry when a horse-for-sale ad in a Saginaw, Michigan, newspaper mistakenly ran in the “Good Things to Eat” section of the classifieds. (Mistakenly? It sounds a little like high-spirited employee mischief to me.)
According to the USA Today story, the woman who was offering the horse for sale—a three-year-old pinto for $200—received 60 phone calls in response to the ad. “I had a lady call whose friend was just in tears over this thing,” Kristen DeGroat said. “It doesn’t help that my cell phone number starts with 666.”
Still, around a third of the callers were interested in buying the horse for its culinary value. None of them, however, was Bo Derek.
there was a brief time in the 70’s when this was tried a some local markets
guess it did not do well cause it did not last
“For some reason, eating horse meat both captures the imagination and utterly repulses the average U.S. citizen.”
Is this true? Show us that stats from this poll! :)
it’s up there just below the idea of eating a pet