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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: daigong on February 26, 2013, 07:38:33 AM
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SHIT! watch out, Ikea fans :sweden:
Swedish furniture giant Ikea was drawn into Europe's widening food labelling scandal Monday as authorities said they had detected horsemeat in frozen meatballs labeled as beef and pork and sold in 13 countries across the continent.
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The Czech State Veterinary Administration said that horsemeat was found in one-kilogram packs of frozen meatballs made in Sweden and shipped to the Czech Republic for sale in Ikea stores there. A total of 760 kilograms of the meatballs were stopped from reaching the shelves.
Ikea spokeswoman Ylva Magnusson said meatballs from the same batch had gone out to Slovakia, Hungary, France, Britain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Greece, Cyprus and Ireland. Magnusson said meatballs from that batch were taken off the shelves in Ikea stores in all those countries.
"Our global recommendation is to not recall or stop selling meatballs," she said.
Ikea Canada spokesperson Madeleine Loewenborg-Frick said in an email to CBC News that the meatballs sold in Canada are produced in the U.S.
"The situation in Europe is isolated to one supplier in Sweden and does not affect meatballs sold at Ikea Canada," she said. (http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/02/25/horse-meat-ikea-meat-balls.html)
XD fuck i would go for 20 for $5.99 all the time. They had that mystery brown sauce n jam I loved :P
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wait what? IKEA is selling food? i think i need to go out more. lol! :lol:
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is it all ikea?
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i thought ikea only sell furniture and stuff.. :doh:
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That news is a few weeks old here :D
Some german food discounter got horse meat delivered too.
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On one hand, the thought of eating horse meat seems kinda gross... On the other hand, cheap delicious meatballs... Dilemma, thy name is Ikea
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horse-meat is a delicacy.
The Regulations for an horse-butcher are high. Already at birth is decided, wich one will get there and its whole live, every medicament and food is documented.
In munich only three horse-butchers have survived. And they have prices :D
I don't want to know, what pigs and cows get injected and feeded. And nobody has a problem with eating that.
The problem with people is - horses are seen more as pets these days.
And speaking of meatballs - think clearly which meat is used for these :D The trash they can't use for steaks or other highpriced products ;)
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It's not the fact that horsemeat is gross, it's more the deceit that people hate.
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Later on, Ikea is going to sell not only furniture but all kind of meat.. horse, goat, beef ,kangaroo maybe? haha :cow:
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:shocked :shocked omg..is this true?! i bought their meatballs sometimes and have just read this post.. :angry: :angry:
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Yucks, its so disgusting -_-
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"I'm so hungry that i could eat a ....horsu!"
- Ishikawa Rika -
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what in my country ikea only sell the furniture stuff
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I would really like to try it
it seems challenging XD
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The problem was never the horse meat. The problem is they were advertised as made of one and contained another kind of meat. Also, some people find eating horse meat disgusting as they don't consider horses a source of food. In the past, horse meat was considered the food of the food so maybe that's where the problem is grounded - in the mentality of people.
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Who the fuck goes shopping for furniture and thinks, "Gee, you know know what would be good right now in this store? Some food."
I mean, you still have to spend hours assembling their future with their shit instructions, who has time to eat?
It's true, though, even the in the US, Ikea has a cafe where you can eat a "real" meal.
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Honestly, even as a horse person, I don't find it that bad. I mean, it's absolutely wrong to advertise the food as something it isn't. But had they advertised it as meatballs containing horse meat, for me, it wouldn't be a huge problem. A lot of other Swedes surely would, though. Horses just aren't seen as a source of food in Sweden, really, so every time something like this happens, it becomes a big deal.
But IKEA immediately took the meatballs off the shelves? Makes it even less of a problem, imo. They obviously didn't want it that way.
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I think there's definitely a social stigma about eating horse (which is maybe why the headline leads with the most "shocking" portion). But yeah, the main problem is that the meat wasn't what they said it was.
A lot of people go to Ikea to completely furnish a new home or apartment, you'll find a ton of newlyweds. It isn't ridiculous to have a cafeteria if you expect people to spend several hours in your store.