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[passport220]

I usually bow out of most nights out with the locals. I do however go to the key events (welcome dinners, �team builder events�, farewell dinners). I work at two public schools and I have gone out to two farewell dinners in the last week.

At both dinners I was ask about Westerner�s love of horse meat. The whole group of Koreans were interested to hear the answer and would have none of it when I told them horse meat is not normally eaten in America. (at least not in the last 100 years).

Has anyone else been ask this question? Where did the idea come from?
(I think it is possible in post-war Europe people may have had to turn to eating horses - is this where the idea came from? )

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As a side note: I have learned when Koreans are stubborn about something not to argue, just smile, nod and forget about it. However, I briefly got caught up in it and explained that as part of early vaccine development horse serum was used. Anyone who regularly eats horse meat could run into complications with such vaccines (I use simplified English to explain this). For this reason I am sure if horse meat was eaten in the past it was stopped with development of vaccines in the late 17th century. Don�t ask me how I know this - I possess a lot of useless information. The dinner party guest could have cared less�.they just wanted me to describe what horse meat tastes like.

[Leslie Cheswyck]

Tastes like glue.

[jaganath69]

Horse meat is eaten in France. I was introduced to it in London by a French coworker who would go over the channel every few weeks and return with a stash. It has a taste similar to lean beef and isn't too tough if done right.

[Jellypah]

Horse is eaten in Japan as well. "Basashi" is raw horsemeat, and I never liked it, but I know a couple of Westerners who really love it! I tried "banikku" down in Kumamoto - which is grilled horse, and surprised myself by liking it. It was tender and smoky, and if I didn't know I was eating horse I might have thought it was beef.
Once, at a potluck in Northern Canada, after taking a nice bite of a meatball in the spaghetti, I had to spit it into a napkin. "What IS this? It's not cow, is it?"
"No," I was told. It was moose.
Sheesh! Warn a person first!

[Canadian Club]

I've heard that it's a lot more healthy than cow meat.

[Optimus Prime]

There are horse meat restaurants all over Korea. Malgogi. Runs about 3% fat, beef is usually about 20% fat.

[cwemory]

Jeju-do is well known in Korea for its horse meat, or more specifically for serving horse meat. I saw it in several restaurants there, but it was really expensive. 35,000 won for the smallest portion, compared to 8,000 won for galbi at the same restaurant.
I ate horse meat sausage in France, but it being sausage, it was spiced to where it could have been nearly any other meat.

[Donkey Beer]

Can anybody recommend some good horse restaurants?

[SuperHero]

there's one in Shincon behind the mcdonalds along the alley running towards the artreon theatre back entrance.

[jay-shi]

It was introduced to my family by my evil uncle. We had a bbq with some steaks he'd brought over.

I thought it was sublime, but my younger sister (6 years old at the time), broke out into tears when my uncle proudly announced it was horse meat.


Yes, it's delicious!

[the_beaver]

[Ginormousaurus]

I watched a news piece on eating horse meat in the ROK. A bunch of ajoshis claimed it was good for....you guessed it! "Man's strength and stamina" And for the ladies it is good for skin.

[Guri Guy]

*Sigh* I was laboring under the illusion that they didn't eat horses here. I find the idea barbaric but different tastes for different folks I guess.

[jaganath69]

[guido]

ate horse vin jeju for a year weekly......tastes delicious......smells putrid