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When I was a kid my mother did tartare de cheval (raw minced horse meat) every saturday; there was an equine butcher shop right in front of our apartment buildi
by bambax 11y ago
When I was a kid my mother did tartare de cheval (raw minced horse meat) every saturday; there was an equine butcher shop right in front of our apartment building in Paris.
Now it's been a while since I've had horse meat, but I remember it to be pretty good.
What I don't know is why there should be a special butcher shop specifically for horse meat? In a regular butcher shop you can buy many other animal products than just beef (pork, rabbit, duck, chicken, lamb, etc.) so what's so special about horse?
- blubb-fish 11y agoProbably the stigma.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoIts so very very easy to substitute horse for beef and cut costs. I imagine the separation is to try to eliminate even the appearance of that possibility. Same reason you don't see "Yoshi Sushi House" and "Bob's Live Bait" under the same roof.
- HelloNurse 11y agoPopularity. In Parma, poultry (and other birds) and horse (including donkey) are the only butcher specializations; even pork isn't common enough.