meat

Any plans for a restful evening after the drive back from Agulhas were swiftly scuppered when we discovered that the freezer had decided to go all Cosatu on us and embark on an unprotected strike. Probably a PCB issue, I’m guessing, but that doesn’t help much right now.

Everything was still cold, but (critically) thawed. Safe then, if you are ready to eat it now. Either cook it tonight or chuck it away.

We cooked it tonight.

Having just had a meat delivery from our Karoo slaghuis (careful now)*, there was a lot to cook. The neighbours helped us out by taking a lot of very decent meat, and then we went through boerewors, steaks, chicken, lamb, burgers. Loads of the buggers.

The beagle assisted by devouring whatever it could. Thanks for that. And then those emergency kids meals: chicken burgers, fish nuggets, fish fingers. Our (amazing) nanny was happy to hear that half her street is going to eat on us tomorrow evening.

Veggies and chips will go to people at the robots. Mrs 6000’s PJ Pops will be drunk by her. Waste not, want not.

I had high hopes for a decent blog post with some pretty pictures from the weekend.

Maybe tomorrow.

* it’s a butchery. He’s good. Details on request.

Well, you can’t have missed the whole EU horsemeat scandal, but apparently the local government is having none of those unexciting, non-exotic meats. We can do better than that. And we do, because:

68% of our local meat contains Water Buffalo (and other meats)!

But Water Buffalo??!!?? Come on!

There’s a fair share of fraudulent meat products on the South African market, according to a new study by meat scientists from Stellenbosch University. The study found that anything from soya, donkey, goat and water buffalo were to be found in up to 68% of the 139 minced meats, burger patties, deli meats, sausages and dried meats that were tested. In other cases, even undeclared plant matter was detected. These ingredients were not declared on the products’ packaging labels.

These are the findings of Meat Scientists – yes, Meat Scientists – at Stellenbosch University here.

More concerning for certain religious groups will be this revelation:

A strong case of meat substitution was also reported. Pork (37%) and chicken (23%) were the most commonly detected animal species in products that were not supposed to contain them.

Of course, I recognise that there’s a serious side to this, but meat is meat. And water buffalo actually sounds kinda cool.

Tag: meat

Freezer Disaster

Not horse