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HERE’S ONE you probably weren’t expecting — meat pies with no meat.
When officials in Iceland began hearing about horse meat being secreted into beef products around Europe, they decided to run tests to ensure the same thing was not happening in Iceland.
Icelandic meat inspector Kjartan Hreinsson says his team did not find any horse meat, but one brand of locally produced beef pie left it stumped.
That’s because… it contained no meat at all.
“That was the peculiar thing,” Hreinsson said in a telephone interview.
It was labelled as beef pie, so it should be beef pie.
Hreinsson said it appeared to be some kind of vegetable matter. He said the mystery pie was traced to a firm in western Iceland and the case had been handed to municipal authorities.
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Reminds me of the Simpsons episode where the school are shredding mats to be used as meat in the cafeteria
Sorry for going off-topic but I have to ask you- how do you pronounce your name Ste? Is it ‘stuh’, or ‘stee’, or ‘stay’? Puzzled me for years.
Pronounced like “Stee”.
‘Ste’, I believe that is German for ‘a whales vagina’, is it not?
There’s no way that’s true.
Sorry Emmet think you’re confusing that with “San Deigo”.
*Diego
No its horse vagina with no horse
There’s more to life than being grealy grealy grealy ridiculously good looking.
Ste classy San Diego!
Ste is Latin for “darkness of an open ringpiece”
I think your pulling our legs Justin
It feels a lot better bein an unemployed musician than an unemployed pipe fitter..
Depends on where your fitting the ‘pipe’
This comment thread is turning into an acid trip.
I have discovered that my wife has no brain or heart, should I be entitled to a refund or exchange in this circumstance as I feel that I have been mislead and feel that these items should have been included
That’s kind of worse.
Horseradish
But it’s only radish!
not if your a vegetarian. :-)
But if you are not, and you want to eat meat, and youre paying for meat, your rights are being infringed upon
@ MK, if your’e a veggie, why buy meat pie?
@ Tony Duff. I am a veggie and would of course buy this meat pie with no meat, hence being a veggie QED ;0)
When are they going to discover vegetarian pies with just meat in them?
Some kind of vegetable matter ….. Feck that sounds worse
That’s why vegetarians go to Iceland
There has never been any ham in hamburgers
I couldn’t figure this one out for years – about there being no ham in a hamburger.
…until a friend was kind enough to tell me that burgers were invented in Hamburg.
Nope… They were invented in america by a man from hamburg
Is that not the same thing?
I didn’t read the america bit properly – Saturday night, a few pints on!
They were invented in Hamburg, New York
It’s the vegetarian beef pie they tested.
Alan’s fact of the day: “Crabsticks” do not actually contain any crab and from 1993 manufacturers have been legally obliged to label them “Crab flavoured sticks”.
You mean Surimi?
I have to say that brought a chuckle………
Iceland gets their first bite of a minced pie and it leaves them stumped. I remember my first minced pie I had at Christmas many years ago, I think they’ll soon discover its mostly raisins ;)
The history of the minced pie is interesting – In the 16th century, the royalty ate mince pies with minced beef – the proper stuff!
The kitchen staff would make pies with leftover fruit and spices and gave these “mince pies” to the peasants at Christmas as a good will gesture.
Now we’re in the 21st century and the rich [i.e. supermarkets] are at it again, except this time we, the peasants, are paying for the the deception.
The horse left Iceland for France.
But who took them?
The bloke on that radio ad., obviously!
;-)
The head of Iceland will probably say “that’s the Irish for you….”
Maybe Gerry and SF did it?
Im boycotting eating
One thing that does stand out for me almost as a footnote to the article is that it has been handed over to authorities, no doubt whoever is responsible will be held accountable and be brought before the courts. Any chance of that here, well probably not because no doubt it would upset the wrong people.
That’s Iceland for ya, they locked up the bankers, toppled their government and regulator. Kicked the FBI out of their country for interrogating a wiki leaks informant.
A bit of a mix up with their food that will be sorted, person who is responsible found out and suffering the consequence by the end of the week.
In ireland we have bankers without banks whats the problem
Ill have one of those please and an alcohol free beer to wash it down!!
We have digressed to groundshit day
I’d imagine a lot of the vegetable matter would be soy, just like in a lot of dog foods the “meaty” chunks are actually soy not meat!
That’s a relief!
not surprised – with all the 1€ crap their always selling.
This is Iceland the country, not the frozen food chain.
That would be a vegetarian matter, Ted.
Where’s the beef?
At the end of the dole queue. They got there ahead of the horses
I dont get it
what next? chicken in chicken nuggets?
Where can I buy one?….seems to be the only safe thing to eat at present….
in iceland they sell horse meat labelled as horse meat in the market
“Vegetable matter”. That’s a great name for we don’t have a clue what it is
Ah sure I got mince pies at Christmas and all they had in them was fruit.
You are all stone mad, thanks for the giggles reading this thread
LOL
Maybe there are no horses left in Iceland, they were all sent to the rest of Europe for our pies…
For years in Ireland, we have pork-free Bacon Fries,and fish-free Scampi Fries, not to mention Tayto & Walkers “cheese & onion” crisps with Paprica & Garlic – only King don’t have these
E119 flavour please
Yes – E119 is a standard in the Building Industry for Fire Resistance!
You eating too much horse!
Could be worse it could be a Puffin pie they eat them there too as well as Icelandic foal steaks there a delicacy
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