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3. The Great Horse Meat Scandal Of 2013
American readers may be blissfully unaware of this scandal, but trust us: it was big news over here in Europe during the dark days of 2013.
In places that arent France, horse meat generally isnt eaten. Its a bit of a taboo. Certainly, people in the UK generally really only like horses when they're alive, especially when theyre launching themselves over fences at the Grand National before falling over, breaking a leg and having to be shot in the car park.
Anyway, it turned out that supermarket chain Tesco had been unknowingly selling burgers which contained not just the beef advertised, but also a fair wedge of horse meat mangled in there too. It all went back to suppliers in Romania and the Netherlands (one Dutch supplier even called itself Draap - thats the Dutch for horse spelled backwards), and ended up touching most major food retailers in some way. What was actually worse than the horse was that the affected meat also contained pig DNA, which is obviously a big no for Muslim and Jewish people.
We should make clear at this point that this has nothing to do with Vauxhall-based groove-merchants Horse Meat Disco. They are absolutely as clean as a whistle, and certainly know one end of a John Morales 12 mix from the other.
Anyway, we should really have seen the whole thing coming: Lunchlady Doris was ladling out offal from a vat marked assorted horse parts. If the suppliers embroiled in the fiasco had just sent out a prepared statement to the press saying, MORE TESTICLES MEANS MORE IRON, then surely everyone would have been much more understanding.