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   fritzoid said, 3 months ago

   A real cowboy would shed no tears.
   
   “Never name your horse. Someday you may have to eat it.”
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   pirate227 said, 3 months ago

   sacré bleu!
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   Ms. Ima said, 3 months ago

   Horrors!!!! Oh, he named the horse ‘carrot’. Maybe a vegan will eat him.
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   Richard S. Russell said, 3 months ago

   Went to a nice farm in the country, you say?
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   TJDestry said, 3 months ago

   I like a strong opinion, but “M. Froggie” crosses a line. I wonder how many other ethnic slurs the editor would have let pass?
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   ronald rini said, 3 months ago

   I was under impression that the ate horse meat in europe.
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   Adrian Snare said, 3 months ago

   @TJDestry

   Then, with this uncessary slur, the cartoonist must be a conservative.
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   saywhatwhat said, 3 months ago

   @TJDestry

   I agree. And what’s the point? Is he making fun of french people in general because they don’t eat what Americans eat? Is it how the cowboy is dressed or the cook for being fat, or the horse for being old, little cars or cobblestone streets? The day before yesterday, half the joke seemed to revolve around the Pope being German.
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   For those wondering, yes some Europeans eat horse meat. It’s a pretty small minority. The only reason horse meat is in the news is because there was a big uproar about it being included (without proper labeling) in some prepared meal items like lasagna (and whatever).
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   Everyone might want to do a DNA test on your next Big Mack if you’re real worried about it.
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   saywhatwhat said, 3 months ago

   Oh, I guess that should be “Big Mac (registered trademark symbol)”
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    ossiningaling said, 3 months ago

    @fritzoid

    My horse is named “Breakfast.” IS that OK?
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    ahab said, 3 months ago

    In the eighth century the Catholic Church began strongly condemning what the church saw as the pagan practice of the consumption of horse meat. Europe saw a significant decline in the consumption of horse meat with the rise of Christianity. Horses were essential to Anglo-Saxon life in the period from the end of Roman Control around 410C.E. to the Norman conquest of 1066. Horses were associated with some warrior pagan gods in pagan religions. Horses were buried with warriors and persons of status, and sometimes eaten as part of the pagan rituals in early Saxon cultures. England is still more of a horse consumption hold out compared to other places in Europe. Oxford Journal of Archaeology/Kristopher Poole/ Article currently in wwwsciencemag.org vol339-THANKS TO CHRISTIANITY HORSEMEAT WENT OUT OF STYLE.
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    charliekane said, 3 months ago

    My ancestry is German, with a wee bit of Polish about the hips thighs and belly.

    In another setting, if the window read cuisine Kraut, I would not be offended.

    BTW, how many Polocks does it take to . . .
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    Atma said, 3 months ago

    Horse meat is not as bad as some of the cr@p considered ‘food’ people eat in America, GMOs for instance.
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    Lynne B said, 3 months ago

    @saywhatwhat

    “The only reason horse meat is in the news is because there was a big uproar about it being included (without proper labeling) in some prepared meal items like lasagna (and whatever).”

    
    Actually, the fuss isn’t because “it wasn’t labelled” so much as it was because “it was specifically labelled as beef, and turned out to be horsemeat instead.” As consumers, it is bad enough to find out that you are eating something you didn’t know was in there; it’s kind of worse to find out that what you were told WAS in there, wasn’t what was claimed.

    
    And when we got to the products that were 30-100% horsemeat, that is not “accidental contamination”, either.

    
    The thing is, that kind of fraud brings up a whole bunch of other questions. Like where the horses came from, and were ANY health and safety standards for food actually followed?
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    Lynne B said, 3 months ago

    @Atma

    GMO is not the bogeyman you think it is.
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