Anyone want a horse burger?

[kentonio]

The one cast iron way to piss off British people is to hurt horses or dogs. Either of those will get you some serious hate. Eating either is not something people here are happy about.

[regexcellent]

The one cast iron way to piss off British people is to hurt horses or dogs. Either of those will get you some serious hate. Eating either is not something people here are happy about.

Obama ate a dog once. You have to hate him now.

[giblets]

If you've had British beef you probably already have Mad Cow disease so what's the use worrying about a comparatively trivial matter like eating horse meat?

[Imran Siddiqui]

I'd try horsemeat. Why not? I don't have objections to eating "cute" animals either

[Hauldren Collider]

I only object to eating dogs because dogs are ****ing awesome and why eat a dog when you could just have the dog as a pet.

[MikeH]

Pigs are ****ing awesome too.

[Hauldren Collider]

Pigs < dogs, and everyone loves bacon.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Everyone loves Chinese Food too

[MikeH]

Pigs < dogs, and everyone loves bacon.

Which side are you arguing for?

[Krill]

I only object to eating dogs because dogs are ****ing awesome and why eat a dog when you could just have the dog as a pet.

Spoiler:

Vincent: Want some bacon?
Jules: No man, I don't eat pork.
Vincent: Are you Jewish?
Jules: Nah, I ain't Jewish, I just don't dig on swine, that's all.
Vincent: Why not?
Jules: Pigs are filthy animals. I don't eat filthy animals.
Vincent: Bacon tastes gooood. Pork chops taste gooood.
Jules: Hey, sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I'd never know 'cause I wouldn't eat the filthy mother****er. Pigs sleep and root in ****. That's a filthy animal. I ain't eat nothin' that ain't got sense enough to disregard its own feces.
Vincent: How about a dog? Dogs eats its own feces.
Jules: I don't eat dog either.
Vincent: Yeah, but do you consider a dog to be a filthy animal?
Jules: I wouldn't go so far as to call a dog filthy but they're definitely dirty. But, a dog's got personality. Personality goes a long way.
Vincent: Ah, so by that rationale, if a pig had a better personality, he would cease to be a filthy animal. Is that true?
Jules: Well we'd have to be talkin' about one charming mother****in' pig. I mean he'd have to be ten times more charmin' than that Arnold on Green Acres, you know what I'm sayin'?

[Aeson]

Pigs are second only to chickens in being the most annoying form of cultivated meat. Dogs at least have some purpose other than being eaten.

People here eat dogs too though. It's much more understandable when dogs are allowed to roam freely and aren't spade or neutered (usually).

[kentonio]

It's much more understandable when dogs are allowed to roam freely and aren't spade or neutered (usually).

Spade?

[The Mad Monk]

When the dog tries to breed, you whack it with a spade.

[Felch]

In the old testiment and under Jewish dietary laws consuming horse is forbidden. Early Catholic Christian doctrine also adopted some of these dietary restrictions as a superficial nod to the old testament but really because the church wanted to maintain horse numbers for use in transport, farming, and for war fighting purposes.

The Catholic Church didn't maintain dietary restrictions as a nod to the Old Testament. Pope St. Gregory III banned it to discourage paganism.

In 732, Gregory banned the consumption of horsemeat, both domestic and wild, anathematizing it as an "abomination" since it was associated with pagan ritual feasting.

It's unlikely that it had anything to do with maintaining horse populations, since that usefulness didn't prevent many other cultures from eating their horses. After all, we eat chickens and cows, but neither is endangered.

[Felch]

Pigs are second only to chickens in being the most annoying form of cultivated meat. Dogs at least have some purpose other than being eaten.

People here eat dogs too though. It's much more understandable when dogs are allowed to roam freely and aren't spade or neutered (usually).

What about sheep and goats? As a youth, stuck with mowing my parents' lawn, I often thought of how much better it would be just to get a sheep instead.