The Tesco counterpart, on this side o' the Pond, is Costco. 

I haven't heard anything, here, about a horse meat fiasco.  However, the pre-made hamburger patties at Costco are the worst.   I made the mistake of buying a large number of them, as part of the "food committee" for a large picnic.   They cook too quickly to a dry consistency, with no flavor (otherwise, they're fine - lol). 

It was the first, last, ONLY time for me investing in pre-made patties.

PS: Loved the horse meat jokes!

Jeux non compende pas??

Edit...that's about the limit of my French Kye...

Last edited by wine~o (Thu 17 Jan 13 8:48pm)

Horsey "No, thanks we're British"...how about Soylent Green?

CatyL wrote:

The Tesco counterpart, on this side o' the Pond, is Costco.

No CatyL , it's quite different to Costco , we have Costco here .
Tesco's are more in the style of something like WalMart
The Value range of products is cheap as the name suggests , I have no idea about the actual cost of these burgers , but I have found a list on the Tesco's site of what the burgers contain ....the ingredients are ...

Beef (63%),Onion (10%) ,Wheat Flour ,Water ,Beef Fat ,Soya Protein Isolate ,Salt ,Onion Powder ,Yeast ,Sugar ,Barley Malt Extract ,Garlic Powder ,White Pepper Extract ,Celery Extract ,Onion Extract


As you see there is no mention of horse .
This is the issue .
The people who buy these burgers have clearly been enjoying the taste of them as they were being manufactured and sold , so from that I take it that there was no issue with the taste at all , but , probably now there are many who will say that they won't buy them again because of them containing horse meat.

The main issue as far as I can see it is the deception as horse has not been mentioned on the label . There are strict rules about labels on food products and not mentioning it could be illegal .

But another issue has to be is one of the main ingredients in the burgers is not mentioned .. What else is being added that is not mentioned either .. And what comes under that title 'beef' ?

Many people choose Tesco's as their main supermarket  and trust their products , trust will have been broken but that won't stop the majority shopping there .
This won't really harm their reputation as far as shoppers are concerned , but what it has done is open the eyes of many people that they do not always know what they are eating and also it's paved the way for a whole load of jokes and spoof photographs which are circulating the Internet .
Jokes will carry on fit ages and I am sure 'horse burger ' will be mentioned at many summer BBQ's this year .

Last edited by mummza (Fri 18 Jan 13 8:11am)

Burger King uses the same supplier      




A horse looking for its family in Tescos:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/te … us-1543040

Last edited by Kye (Fri 18 Jan 13 11:33am)