Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

merely as an interesting aside, it was the poles who had a key role in supplying the crypto-analytical info that opened up the enigma machine codes - whatever hollywood's version tried to make out!

:-)

We were the "winners", so we can judge!

Is that a judgement?

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horse meat loverly had it many times .
I would be more concerned if i had food
from a curry take away you will never no what shit is in it

if you want good freash meat or fish go to MORRISONS all is done on site
that is were i go

Well that is one place to give a miss.

i almost never buy meat from a supermarket except occasionally sausages or mince and never fish ..... we are fortunate that the owner of our first-class local wet fish shop (getting rarer and rarer) is also a butcher by trade and also offers much better than average meat, much of it locally produced

cynic all morrisons fresh meat is local

English lambs used to imported from England and grazed in Wales and then slaughtered before being sold back in England as Welsh Lamb.

Not sure if this is still going on.

i am fully aware of morrison's ethos ..... however, supermarkets do not have the facility, ability or wish to hang meat for as long as it ideally should be .... in any case, even if they did, i would STILL support my local small guys ..... it is the knotweed-supermarkets who (inter alia) are doing serious damage to the composition and shop-balance of the high streets across the country

I remember back in 1986/87, the scaremongering concerning Welsh lamb and the 'Chernobyl fallout' and the subsequent controls that were put in place - I think they were only recently totally lifted.

fred - i'ld be surprised if it is still not common practice, and indeed is very acceptable, always assuming the fattening-up process is for a "sensible" length of time

It looks like it was only last year!

Chernobyl sheep controls lifted in Wales and Cumbria

Restrictions on hundreds of Welsh and Cumbrian sheep farms dating back to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster have finally been lifted - 26 years on.

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) said the controls were not "proportionate" to the "very low risk" and removing them would not compromise the consumer.

Learnt this about lamb when I was 10 years old.

Twenty years ago.

"The War Song of Dinas Vawr

The mountain sheep are sweeter,
But the valley sheep are fatter;
We therefore deemed it meeter
To carry off the latter."

Food Regulator Warns Of Deliberate Contamination In UK Horse Meat Scandal

By Michael Haddon U.K. authorities said Friday that evidence of significant amounts of horse meat in beef burgers and lasagne sold in the country points to "gross negligence or deliberate contamination" of the food chain. However, the Food Standards Agency said there's no reason for the U.K. public to suspect there's any health issue with frozen food in general and it wouldn't advise people to stop eating it. "We believe that these two particular cases--the frozen burgers from Tesco PLC (TSCDY) and the lasagne from Findus--are linked to suppliers in Ireland and France respectively," the regulator said in a statement. "We are working closely with the authorities in these countries to get to the root of the problem," it added. Last month, Tesco dropped an Irish meat supplier after stocking frozen beef burgers from the provider that turned out to contain horse meat. The U.K. supermarket chain said it will stop sourcing products from ABP Food Group's Silvercrest and would establish a DNA-testing program for its meat products to prevent a similar incident in the future. Meanwhile, the FSA confirmed Thursday that the meat content of beef lasagne products recalled by Findus had tested positive for more than 60% horse meat. Findus withdrew the products after its French supplier, Comigel, raised concerns about the type of meat used in the lasagne, the organization said. "In the particular cases of the Findus lasagne and the Tesco burgers, they have been withdrawn from sale," the FSA said. "Anyone who has them in their freezer should return them to retailers as a precaution." The FSA said it has instructed the industry to urgently carry out its own tests on processed beef products to see whether horsemeat is present, in addition to its own "widespread testing."

Makes you wonder what your eating, pleanty of times I've thought beef wasn't beef at all. I refuse to eat frozen burgers and packaged food anyway... What next, foxes and badgers turning up in faggots!!

Road Kills.

Got some recipes.

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I wondered where Rebecca's horses went!


6-)

Tesco
Horse searching for parents

YO....... oh forgot what I was going to say now.Ill come back.