You do eat horses in Belgium, isn’t it? Peter asked me during tea break. All the attention on me. Euh….yes, we do. Is that strange? Suddenly realised it maybe is strange indeed. Never on a Cork menu I saw horse steak. What does it taste like? Does everyone eat it? Euh….it’s just red looking meat. A bit tough. Before my parent’s became sort of vegetarians, we had it every Friday for dinner. With backed potatoes and pepper sauce. And a salad. Or we put thin slices of smoked horse on our sandwich. “Paardje” (little horse), we called it. Think I was lucky Alex, the boss, wasn’t around for tea at the moment. He is really into horse racing, ye know…..
Saskia
Ps: for the historians amongst us, think Belgian people started eating horse meat around the period of World War II, during the winters of starvation. Apparently it tasted much better then expected, as people are still eating it nowadays and even are willing to pay a lot of money for it.
Saskia
Ps: for the historians amongst us, think Belgian people started eating horse meat around the period of World War II, during the winters of starvation. Apparently it tasted much better then expected, as people are still eating it nowadays and even are willing to pay a lot of money for it.
