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Can it get any worse, now Ikea's meatballs contain horsemeat.

Shocking, what level of toxic horse drugs could be in these meatballs?

TOXIC HORSE DRUGS!!1! WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE PONIES??!1!

*clutches bridle

Wow they are still yummy!!

Is it so wrong that I dont care about this.

But very impressed that Beeaware has found a different topic to post about.

Poor ponies

But maybe horsemeat is the key to why they are so good - and they ARE good!

poor ponies?!!

hahahah!
never mind the baby cows

It's the Czech food standard agency people that have detected this, so we have no idea if there is horse meat in The meatballs sold here. So until the fsa say they have detected it here I'll still be making my ikea pilgrimage for meatballs regularly!

If anything comes out of this scandal, I hope it changes attitudes to eating horse in this country. Might not be for everyone, but its not as horrific as the media are making out.

Well at least it reduces the chance of catching mad cows disease eh?

Right, that's enough. 3 posts on this? Do you own Argos or something?

Do Argos do horse free meatballs??

Of course they do, that's why they are beyond cheap

Bute is actually carcinogenic, that's the real problem of horse being in the human food chain.

That will be why they're so nice.
Bastards

Horse is yummy. So there. I eat it in France & Belgium & would happily buy it in the UK, when I am there, if I could.

And lambs are way cuter than horses anyway, and we eat lots of them.

AIBU to feel really smug that I don't eat meat? I eat fish but am assuming I would notice if horse was smuggled into my fishfingers

It's in the Czech republic, not here

I want to go to Ikea for lunch now.

You do know that the found fish fingers to contains actual fingers though badtasteflump? Nothing is safe unless you rear, grow, slaughter and harvest it all yourself!

me too flump

Or is it that they've been discovered by Czech inspectors

I didn't think they'd found bute yet in any of the samples in the UK?

Often when a horse is on it's way out the owners use bute to make it as comfortable as possible. These carcasses should never get into the food chain. As horses are supposed to have these passports it should never happen. Now we see that in fact the whole system is an omnishambles what faith would you have that this has not happened. I am firmly in zero camp here.

I am desperate for some IKEA meatballs now. Damn you OP!

Delayingtactic - How many would you like?