Definitions of saddle:
1. a leather seat for riders
2. a cut of meat consisting of the backbone and both loins - boom boom
Treating the animals humanely is surely the most important thing.
If you mean the Seefeld Metzgerei then you're going to the best butchers around; ask Marco to tell you what he offers and how to cook it, he speaks some English.
They have the best lamb racks and steaks I've found in these parts. They spend time hanging their meat, hence the slightly higher price than elsewhere. They know their stuff! Also, try the Hauswürst , it's superb
Back on the horse (so to speak), I have never tried it (to my knowledge - but some cheap meat pies in Australia, well, you never know...), but would not refuse it if offered - unless it was overcooked. To me, a bigger crime than the type of animal chosen is to ruin a good steak by overcooking it.
Does the age of the animal affect the quality of the meat?
Crocodile&cangoro can be found in Outback restaurant in Zurich.
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I wouldn't have thought about eating horse at home (in UK), but with it being sold here, I think I might give it a try. I've eaten ostrich a few times & liked the flavour, also kangaroo, goat, deer & crocodile, so I'm keen to try new things.
I'll let you all know how I get on & hopefully the hubby will be honest with me about whether he likes it or not too.
Personally, I have tried horse steak and found it to be not too different to beef - let's face it, it's another four legged, grass eating animal at the end of the day. I guess it is less fatty than beef, but then again, a good cut of beef fillet doesn't have a huge amount of fat to speak of.... mmmm, blue steak makes the salad I've just eaten look a bit poor!
horse burger yum yum, common in france.
Countries/cultures have dozens of lists on which people can eat which meat, which days of the week are non-meat days, which method of slaughtering is fine and which is forbidden, I find all this so pretentious.
If people find it acceptable to kill an animal for its meat, fine, just go and eat it without much ado. No animal is dangerous when cooked well.
I am aware eating meat is bad for the environment. That said, I feel I need to eat some meat for my health, so I eat meat sparingly. I also feel guilty when I see PETA related stuff, they have a point. Unfortunately as the end consumer I have no way of knowing which meats are humane ly (noticed the irony there?) produced. So I try to eat large animals, so that there is minimal number of deaths/quantity of meat.
Barring these objective factors, and nutritive values, the rest is all yarn...
The French eat it (same goes for frogs legs and snails)
The CEO of my company is an American and he keeps going at the chef of the canteen for serving horse meat on occasions.
I don't see why he has a problem. Normally there are three menus to choose from so nobody has to eat horse.
So live and let live.
That Seefeld butchers is definitely a good one for other meats, too. They really know their stuff and don't sell any of that pumped-full-of-water rubbish either.
In case noone else pointed it out, it's actually a (beef) burger with a fried egg on top - was a regular source of entertainment when lived in Southern France, ordering one then listening to tourists (usually fellow Brits) go on and on about the wrongness of eating horses
A bit like eating or fishing for dolphin on the Florida Keys
It is also excellent as a 'steak tartare'; chopped raw with a fresh green onion, lots of chopped parsley, pepper, salt, worcestershiresauce, an egg yoke, a shot of cognac and the likes....
Yup, that's right, chopped raw pig's liver with a raw egg on top!
V popular in the Frankfurt area! (Tho not with me, even I have limits )