American Reacts to Top 10 Shocking British Food Scandals!
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- Hold on to your jaw bones as we check out the Top 10 jaw-dropping food scandals. From historical controversies to modern mysteries, we'll uncover the surprising stories behind these culinary scandals.
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Horse meat is perfectly fine and when I grew up we had shops specializing in horse meat. It is still an ingredient in some sausages. But naturally it should be explained on the packet.
My Mam told me that during the second world war horsemeat was sold. Rations were a bit restricted one egg a week . In the 1950's and 60's I used to get horsemeat for our dogs to eat, they loved it!
I've never knowingly eaten horse meat & have no wish to do so. I have no problem with people eating horsemeat. The point is that not only did the customers not know that there was horsemeat in the products, the suppliers did not know what they were selling either.
It wasn't just that it was horsemeat, it was the fact that it was from old knackers and from Romania, that has very poor food standards.
I ate horsemeat in France back in the late ‘70’s! Knowingly though 👍🇬🇧
Dog and cat are fine to eat too
In the 90s (for a charity), I tried to get restaurants to donate food that was left over to the homeless and poor in my home town. A couple of supermarkets I asked were willing but the council stopped me. This is despite me having qualifications in food science and microbiology... a lot better qualified than anyone in that council department!
In the news today....TODAY, a recall of artisan cheese sold in Waitrose (Waitrose is the most expensive and poshest supermarket chain) because of E.coli contamination, with 1 dead, 11 hospitalised and 30 sick. This was in Lanarkshire, Scotland. Scotland....again.
English cheese according the big English BBC
It’s Mrs Kirkhams form Lancashire. As my partner joked it’s another food scare I’m safe from (I don’t eat cheese, dairy or otherwise).
The real problem with the 'Horsemeat Scandal' was that people were being told they were eating one source of meat, when in fact it was something else. There was no evidence that the otherwise reputable companies were selling meat that was not fit for human consumption- but they were lying about what was in their products - which in the case of hidden pork was a real problem for Jewish and Muslim communities in particular. And of course it raised the question of "If they lied about that, what else are thy lying about?"
They didn't even mention the 'salmonella in eggs' debacle.........when in 1988 a politician (Edwina Currie) claimed that most of Britain's eggs were contaminated by salmonella. It had massive ructions across the egg producing insustry and public confidence.
I was working in livestock farming at the time of this foot and mouth outbreak and our farm had to destroy over 10,000 animals and had clean the whole farm and wasn't allowed to restock for 1 year.
I remember when there was a cod shortage, and a lot of fish and chips shops were caught selling other white fish as cod. Now supermarkets sell a lot of "budget" fish products labelled "white fish".
Nothing wrong with a bit of horse? As long as it's marked as such. Tried variations of it in continental Europe when I lived there. Not for me personally, a bit too "strong", probably half way between Venison and beef in texture and flavour?
The same as Goose is similar to Swan!!!
The horse meat thing (not mentioned) is that it's a far cheaper meat to buy, so people were not just being lied to, but ripped off massively.
I agree, the rotten pork peddler should be named, the public has a right to know if they have been deliberately deceived. None of the names from the list mentioned actually sells meat.
Pork is usually detailed trough our supermarkets. The major chains are Sainsburys, Tesco, Asda and Morrison's (this was pre Lidl and Aldi) with Spar and Co-Op being more minor players.
I'll never forget how foot and mouth affected our local farmers, there were many who were suicidal after the slaughters. And discovered to have been unnecessarily large afterwards, but of course that wasn't publicised as much.
I worked as a temporary worker for veterinary labs, they took blood and brain samples all around the UK during the Mad Cow (BSE) times, one of my jobs was to fetch cow brain from the freezer and slice it thinly for examination under a microscope. The PPE and hoops you had to jump through to get in and out of the labs was comical in that in some instances they suggested you levitate 10 metres to enter the building...
Yes horse meat is perfectly fine, very tender and a little sweeter than beef. I'm Portuguese and I used to purchase in specialized butchers. If you eat what you are really buying and it complies with all the sanitary regulations than that shouldn't be an issue.
As a meat eater, it would be hypocritical to be outraged by eating horse, because a cow or sheep is no less sentient. However that isn't the main concern in this case, then concern is incorrectly labelled food. While it can be devastating for some who has strict religious dietary requirements to find an item contains non kosher or haram food, or for a vegetarian or vegan to discover certain animal products lurking in their food (I seem to remember there was a scandal about a well known brand of jelly sweets that labelled the sweets as vegan, but were using gelitine derived from meat by products), but the main issue is with allergies, and there is still a long way to go with this, some people have rare allergies and their particular allergenay not be listed in bold lettering
The UK only list 14 allergens, if you are allergic to something other than the 14 you need to scrutinise the label, nut if manufacturers sneak in ingredients, you have mo chance.
During the Foot and Mouth outbreak in 2001 I was an instructor of residential homes for a whole range of different groups and ages, the older people were familiar with foot and mouth disease and so weren't particularly worried, but the heartbreaking ones were children's homes, many staff weren't old enough to remember foot and mouth and so weren't able to give their own known about reassurances to the children, these were difficult inspections to carry out as often children thought they could catch it from perfectly safe foods like fruit and vegetables, we spent a lot of time educating the staff and children together so they could see that the information was the same for them all. On a brighter note I am from what was the last town to officially stop selling horse meat in England, possibly Great Britain, this was in the early 50's and so before my time, just a brighter note to finish on :)
Not true. Horse meat is, and always was , a selective licenced meat and totally safe to eat. The is two licenced private butchers who still sell horse meat to cater for the European demand for it in Britain. I would not boast being a instructor for residential homes, especially how the utter disgraceful way care home staff performed and contributed towards the thousands and thousands who died in care/residential homes during covid from the lack of training & common sense.
@@hiramabiff2017 the word "instructor" was thanks to auto correct, it should have read "inspector" of residential care homes, this should have been a 2 year unpaid job, due to older people dropping out (personal reasons but mostly because inspection of EMI homes (Elderly, Mentally, Infirm), it was a little closer to home than they were comfortable with, I was asked to do more inspections to cover the short fall, I had no powers to set policies, I wasn't employed by anyone so I didn't receive any form of payment, only the cost of the meal I had to have in each place inspected was I re-emberced for, though this was often less than £2 I put that in a charity box for whatever the home was raising money for, I was there to give my views on how each home was run from an outsiders point of view, yes I'd received training first, but I am from a background of working in disability and charity sectors, I gave input to those writing the Disability Discrimination Act along with many other people and organisations, I've helped planners with road and pedestrian crossing layouts from a disability aspect, I have received no payment for any of this work ever, it helps to help others and that is payment enough, what happened in children's homes has never had anything to do with me or others doing the type of work I have done so far as I am aware, I have had nothing to do with this type of work since the very early 2000's.
Ah, 2013 'beef' lasagna - like many prepared foods it had a surprisingly high Shergar content.
Ha! Bravo!
I've knowingly eaten horse salami in Belgium - it's okay, a bit like lean beef. It would be interesting to know why the difference in attitudes exists between the UK and other European countries, since it's not as though horses aren't kept for riding outside Britain.
Warning: This product has been known to give you the trots
Horse meat is common throughout the European mainland, not the Uk.......
I believe that in those European countries, the customers know what they are buying & the retailers know what they are selling though.
I live in the east Midlands in a small town, our house is in front and behind farms. Cows at the back and chickens at the front, and we've had signs up since last year about potential infection from bird flu! Not sure if it's still going on or just precaution but we're not allowed to go near the birds anywhere near the farms and our neighbours who keep chickens have to keep them locked down. Its quite creepy to think about it hahaa.
Great channel mate, been watching the past few days really fun seeing your reactions to British stuff 😊
It's not Diageo, that's an alcoholic drinks company.
So many floods, heatwaves and wildfires, with the media only talking about home and small business, but you don't think farms are not affected?? Of course, they are, hence the lack of fruit and vegetables and meat. For example, potatoes are in very short of supply because of wet weather in Scotland, so in the last quarter of 2024, expect potatoes to practically double in price!
Horse meat is commonly eaten in many countries in Europe and Asia. However, it is not a generally available food in most English-speaking countries.
Fruit in winter is often frozen then defrosted.
I was on a film shoot during the Foot & Mouth outbreak and we'd turned an agricultural collage into a studio because it was closed for the summer. One day, we were shooting on the lawn and one of the groundsmen came trundling by on one of those massive lawnmowers they use to cut meadows. Unfortunately, he'd not disengaged the blades and still had them down, so when he ran over the mat on the driveway that was soaked with chemicals for disinfecting vehicle tires, it became chewed up in the blades and the whole thing ground to a halt in a cacophony of exploded carpet and bleach. We lost an hour of shooting time because the entire cast and crew couldn't stop laughing (not helped by the fact that shortly afterwards, I found a square of black gaffer tape and put it on my upper lip before sitting in the director's chair with my arms folded across me chest. The director, who was German, looked at me and said, "Hmm, that's a familiar face").
Horse meat taste great, it's the deception of it. If i'm buying beef i expect to get beef. & on the rotten pork list you pulled up Danone is primarily selling dairy & plant based products. Mondelez sells candy, gum, chocolate, cookies + crackers & Diageo is sprits & alcohol ). Not sure you get the supplier on that list ).
I wasn't allowed to eat beef products during the BSE outbreak and for 2 or 3 years following. When Foot & Mouth hit, there were lots of basins of disinfectants that you had to step into when entering or leaving country lanes and walks and farm areas. There are lots of sheep on local hillsides so this was preventative measures. During the local Scottish Summer Highland Games they could not have their usual sheepdog and sheep demonstrations so they had the dogs showing their training in herding ducklings and sending ducklings on agility slides, etc. The E-coli outbreak was a big scandal within Scotland. The Butcher in question had supplied meat to a local Supermarket but they also had supplied meat to charities who had used the meat for lunches for the elderly which is why so many OAP's were affected and died. My friend worked for the local Scottish Supermarket which was affected by this and thermals was linked and tarnished for some time after too. They were innocent victims. My friend was heavily involved in improving their public image afterwards.
When I was a kid i always said our chicken tasted funny, turns out British famers had been feeding chickens with fishmeal. The flavour and some of the oils got into the meat of the chicken. Not only did this affect the taste, people like me with a chronic fish allergy had health issues becuse of it.
I have not eaten meat for over 30 years and I have no regrets.
If you are hungry, a scabby horse is probably the best thing to resolve that issue I have heard people say.
The scabs are the best bits.
I heard it was a scabby headed cat . Both sound delicious though.
I remember the horse meat scandal, I’ve eaten horse in France. Not something I’ll have again (unlike reindeer, that’s delicious). And I remember the BSE scare, in fact I’m still not allowed to give blood internationally.
"People need to work" - ah, the US way of looking at things.
If the employer can't provide work - they can't simply stop paying their employees.
The foot and mouth crisis was so sad. I remember the family pets had to be culled too
You’re really beautiful
Can cats and dogs get something that only affects cloven-hooved animals?
@@Stoggler Dogs and cats can spread it whether it affects them or not. The virus is airborne, areas outside the immediate vicinity of an affected animal can also be contaminated.
Under current law in the UK, all property that is suspected to be infected is quarantined. All confirmed infected animals are slaughtered and incinerated. Movement of animals around the country is also prohibited.
@@emmajayne4894 makes sense - thanks
Horse meat is also forbidden or haram to some due to religious reasons. In the old testament it says to eat beasts of the field with cloven hooves..horses don't have cloven hooves.
On a personal note the biggest Bernard Matthews Scandal was not paying me £500 for 25 years service because I left one month short of 25 years (To become my mum's carer)
how did we all survive 50yrs ago when there was no expiry dates on food products, or food labelling
My friend's husband who is French wanted her to go to all the supermarkets named selling products containing horse meat because he loves it🤣
@@simonrobbins8357 No, they live in the Midlands but go back to France frequently so I think he stocks up there. Will let them know about Bristol though (don't know of any butchers nearby that sells it). Thanks.
I remember foot and mouth everywhere in the 70's and again about 20 years ago
Here in Austria you can find horse meat products as well.
Why is eating horse meat gross? We eat sheep, pigs, ostrich, cows, deer, rabbits, camel. Don't see anything wrong with horses, unless, of course, you have to tell your dsughter that you just ate her little pony.
I’ve had horse, not my favourite, but I wasn’t scandalised. (And I don’t eat ready meals, not for snobbishness, just pickiness).
It's where the horses came from which was a problem. They hadn't been raised for meat so they may have had medicines and treatments which are banned in the food chain.
Touching on the Horse meat thing, during the First World War, The British Army was under Seige by the Turks at a place called Kut Al Amara, in Mesopotamia, eventually the food rations dwindled and the Cavalry came to rescue but not by a grand charge, by there Horses going under the knife to feed the troops, it was of course all in vain as the British eventually had to surrender to the Turks
I like that it's hard to make videos like these for the USA because in the USA government agencies just cover it all up 😂😂
I really like the initiative of supermarkets here to sell odd-shaped vegetables and fruits that formerly one went to landfill at a cheaper price in bags called "The Odd Bunch". Also there are bakeries here that allow charities to take unsold bread at the end of the day to retirement homes or people in need. 🇦🇺
They’re sold at Morrisons under the ‘wonky’ label in the UK. Obviously wonky potatoes are a pain in the arse to peel.
There's nothing wrong with horse meat, it's apparently leaner than beef and tastes virtually identical. Personally I think it's hypocritical that as a nation we're so hung up on not eating horse meat but will happily eat cows and especially pigs which are very intelligent animals. Luckily I'm a vegetarian so it doesn't effect me, but it's very much a double standard.
McDonald's burgers have human flesh in their meat
A closed KFC cannot "take down a town" we're not Americans, we actually have something called workers rights
I know lets feed the herbivorous cow some meat. And just for shits and giggles lets turn them into cannibals, what can go wrong?
The only shortages I have experienced since Brexit were when people went mad during the Covid-19 pandemic and there were no toilet rolls on the shelves and people unnecessarily bought oodles of pasta and rice in a panic. Since then, the shelves look no different from before Brexit, not in Surrey, anyway. We were also told that there would be no soft fruit on the shelves as it would lie rotting in the fields as there would be no workers available to pick it owing to reduced migrant workers from the EU I have had no problem buying British strawberries and raspberries in recent years and, if anything, the prices have increased at a lower rate than other foodstuffs, if at all. Of course, inflation in general has been stoked by fuel and energy prices arising from the dependence on Russia and the war in Ukraine and the reduction in fossil fuels from environmental initiatives such as net zero which is why all western countries have experienced it.
Even during the manic dash for toilet rolls etc, we only had a couple of days where of you didn't gonin the morning you couldn't get it. Other than that our Aldi was decently stocked throughout
To be fair... the horse burgers (sold as beef) at iceland were really good, I stopped buying them when they went back to beef😭. Mum says back in the day McDonalds used to do horse burgers (sold as beef) and my brother said they were delicious, they used to do root beer too🤤. But yeah, that swapsy caused a lot of trouble, my aunt bought mince from a butcher shop and had to throw it out because she cooked it thinking it was legit beef mince. They're completely different meats, like when you ask for goat and they sell you mutton. You can't exactly take it back once you've already started cooking it...
Humans have an awful long history with horses. The current generations are the first in which they aren't an integral part of society. They got us through some dark times, that's why we dont see them as food in the West.
Horse meat is commonly eaten in many countries in Europe and Asia. However, it is not a generally available food in most English-speaking countries.
Just a fun fact, if you hear "people have blamed brexit" for this, it's not the fault of brexit 👍
The horse meat came from the EU. Mojo blames Brexit.
How can you hear someone's name more than once(Bernard) and still say it wrong?
Honestly dude start an ASMR channel, your voice is very soothing.
Horse is delicious, but informed choices are good too
Horse meat is popular in Japan. It's really only the west that doesn't eat horse.
We just had a new e coli outbreak😮
and the british government with outbreak of foot and mouth gave elder residents free free free tins of beef ? so kind er
The muslims were hit hard by the pork thing, they have to shop at supermarkets and what not like everyone else and trust that the meat/s in the ingredients list were just so. Every single piece of food doesn't have to be halal but to trick people into haram is just so ick. It's why you don't see them buying food in certain shops or at restaurants, even if they have the big halal sticker on the front👀
I had a little horse meat once in France. It is often served to invalids there. Nothing wrong with it but I do not like raw meat of any case.
French love horse
I live in France and as an ex pat am unable to give blood because of mad cow disease! 😂
Its bad enough that innocent animals and birds are murdered every day without horses adding to the list.there is no comparison between all animals and birds,they breathe like humans they feel emotion like humans etc.
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No matter what, Brexit always gets the blame.
hi from the UK
Uk food waste….
Since this story broke.
Most supermarkets will donate their unwanted food to a food bank.
A food bank is a place where anyone can go if they are low on or in need food.
It’s totally free.
This has not solved the food waste issue but it certainly helped 😊
The hoses meat burgers came from the EU…..
I wonder why mojo didn’t mention that FACT 😂
Horse is yummy
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I don’t think Watch mojo UK.
Can go a single episode without mentioning and blaming Brexit for something.
While providing no evidence to back up his assertion.
It’s really annoying and I understand now why people don’t like mojo UK
What can I say but thank god I am a vegetarian. 😂🏴
The horsemeat scandal underlines why we needed Brexit. It happened because of low standards in Europe.
I like your content but can't you just speak normally?