Horse meat found in Ikea's Swedish meatballs

[lianbeng]

What's wrong? Horse meat is delicious. Genghis Khan loved it.

lianbeng quotes an idiom: one man's meat is another man's poison! the belgians luv them as much as u luv roasted chicken!

 

[Leckmichamarsch]

datz Y the balls taste so goooood

 

[Narong Wongwan]

Then their hotdogs got dog meat?

 

[lianbeng]

Then their hotdogs got dog meat?

lianbeng guessed: maybe they got the idea of hotdog from real dog erect penis!

 

[kopiuncle]

Then their hotdogs got dog meat?

i think better stop eating all these hotdogs, meatballs and burgers!

 

[MicroStar]

datz Y the balls taste so goooood

Yes, those balls were really good. I have stopped frequenting that place for almost a year.

 

[blackmondy]

There is a saying ' You are what you eat ', so who knows? It could happen.

"You talking about me ?"

 

[Merl Haggard]

If you are a vegetarian, you will not have such problem.

Avoid all processed foodstuffs like sausage, ham, meatball, burger etc.

Meat patties at fast food joints use 40% meat and 60% offal.

 

[freedalas]

Which Ikea? Tampines or Queensway.

I only go to the Queensway Ikea.

Same supply source so either Tampines or Queensway should be same. But I can confirmed for Queensway that the meatballs had indeed became different taste (bad) and this is quite some time already.

 

[Raiders]

Which Ikea? Tampines or Queensway.

I only go to the Queensway Ikea.

Tampines brother. Go and try their chicken wings. I suspect that they fried it with shit.

 

[AhGuan]

From now on, I think I better learn from the in-house vegetarian ......

 

[johnny333]

You are right. I found the taste different also. Even the chicken wings also taste funny. I have since stop eating there.

I saw a sign in the Ikea cafeteria that informed people of changes of the source for the meatballs. So I guess they must have received alot of feedback about it.

Eating in Spore is now no fun. Everyone is trying to cut costs & you can taste the difference. As with many other things in Spore it's all going downhill. Makes it easier to stay home & eat healthy.

 

[lianbeng]

If you are a vegetarian, you will not have such problem.

lianbeng agrees n disagrees! agree u will not have such meaty problems but disagree coz u will still have problems with chemical pesticides they spray on ur tomatoes?

 

[AhGuan]

lianbeng agrees n disagrees! agree u will not have such meaty problems but disagree coz u will still have problems with chemical pesticides they spray on ur tomatoes?

Will eating organic vegetables solve this problem ?

 

[peppertail]

Siao Liao; have it Last week onLy..no wonder my voice is turning Hoarse..

Nice

Aren't the meatballs sold at Ikea halal? If so i would imagine the contents have been checked and certified properly.

 

[jw5]

Wow. Horse Balls. Yummy.

 

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IKEA Executive: "We take this very, very seriously" (01:10) Agency

Feb. 25 - Swedish furniture giant IKEA says it has stopped selling Swedish meatballs in 13 countries and that they are investigating how horsemeat turned up in their product. Deborah Gembara reports.

 

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Been to Europe lately? Chances are you've already eaten horse meat

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Traces of horse have been found in a wide variety of processed meat products like pasta and pizza. Picture: AFP Source: AFP

Horse meat found in Ikea's meatballs
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SO hungry you could eat a horse? Chances are, if you've regularly consumed processed-meat products in Europe, you already have.

Since Ireland published surprise DNA results in mid January showing that a third of frozen "beef'' burgers in Ireland contained at least a trace of horse, food scientists in more than a dozen countries have found the animal trotting into products where it was never meant to roam.

Daily revelations from an ever-increasing menu of supermarket, catering and restaurant goods have taught the world one lesson: When minced up with other meat or slathered with spices, consumers cannot tell equine from bovine in the food chain.

However, in Australia, although horsemeat has been found in products stocked in Aldi supermarkets in the UK and Ireland, there have been no traces of horsemeat in Aldi stores as products are made from 100 per cent Australian fresh beef, a spokesman said in February.

MEATBALLS

In fairness, IKEA never did call them beef balls. The Swedish furniture giant has discovered that its signature cafeteria dish - spiced meatballs of mixed beef and pork - also might contain horse.

Ikea said it was withdrawing stocks of frozen Kottbullar meatballs from stores in 24 nations, including Thailand and Hong Kong in Asia and the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean.

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Ikea has pulled meatballs from 14 European countries after horsemeat was found in the product by Czech authorities. Picture: AFP

European countries affected were Austria, Belgium, Britain, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain and Sweden. Somehow, the Swiss were spared.

IKEA was keen to stress that its Australian-based meatballs were all-Australian and not subject to recall. IKEA Australia spokeswoman Angela McCann said Aussie stores were in "no way involved".

"The meatballs sold here in Australia are 100 per cent Australian meat, and therefore Ikea stores throughout Australia are not affected and will continue to sell meatballs," she said.
Australia also supplies meat to Japan's IKEA stores.

BURGERS

This is the product that started the January stampede to Europe's DNA labs. Irish authorities doing a random quality check were shocked to find horse meat in frozen burgers produced for five Irish and British supermarkets, and eventually traced the source to Poland.

The Irish producers' top two customers - Burger King's British, Irish and Danish restaurants and the British supermarket chain Tesco - quickly took their business elsewhere.

PIZZA

There's something rotten in Denmark, but it's not the meat itself. The Danish Veterinary and Food Administration says a product enigmatically described as "pizza meat'' and sold by the Harby Slagtehus meat wholesaler contains cow, pig and horse.

The company insists its customers in pizzerias across Denmark knew the topping contained horse, even if that little fact was nowhere on the ingredients list. Government vets don't believe a word of that.

SPAGHETTI BOLOGNESE

Better make that "bolo-neighs''. Many of Europe's leading makers of microwaveable frozen foods - including Birds Eye of Britain, Nestle of Switzerland, and Findus of France - found that some suppliers had mixed horse into the ground beef used for Europe's most ubiquitous pasta sauce.

PASTA

Not to beat a dead horse, but Europe's food-testing labs are indicating that any factory-made pasta product containing "beef'' sauce or filling might be horse in drag. Among those caught at the DNA finish line are the frozen ``beef'' lasagnas of Birds Eye; Nestle's Buitoni brand of ravioli in Italy and fusilli in Spain; and Combino-branded tortelloni and penne in Austria.

France's Comigel blamed the discovery of up to 100 per cent horse in its "beef'' lasagnas - sold under other brand names, including Findus and Tesco - on a complex supply chain stretching from its Luxembourg factory back via Dutch and Cypriot middlemen to Romania horse butchers.

PASTRIES

Thank goodness there's no such thing (yet) as a beef doughnut. In Spain, Nestle's recall of products includes meat-filled, semicircular pastries called empanadas.

PIES

You might be surprised to find horse meat hiding under a frilly layer of potato. British-style cottage pies, with gravy, beef and carrots under the smashed spuds, have been withdrawn from scores of school cafeterias in England, Wales and Scotland after DNA tests found horse meat inside. France made similar discoveries in its potato-topped pie called hachis Parmentier.

VEGETABLES

Mum might tell you to eat your vegetables, but the Nestle product recall in Spain included meat-stuffed peppers.

KEBABS

Once you've blended a handful of meats, does one more really matter? The Austrians found horse in kebab meat produced by a Vienna firm, Lilla Gastronomie, that was supposed to contain a blend of only beef, pork and turkey.

SAUSAGES

Fry 'er up: Despite sausages' worldwide reputation as a favoured destination for mystery meat, only Austria has found equine DNA hiding in sausages, in two brands made by Josef Freitag, aka Joe Friday.

 

[po2wq]

Siao Liao; have it Last week onLy..no wonder my voice is turning Hoarse..

ur face cud oso b getting loonger! ...

 

[Agoraphobic]

If you are a vegetarian, you will not have such problem.

Thanks for updating us. I didn't know horsemeat was okay with vegetarians!

Cheers!