Now it's zebra in our burgers!
THE national horse meat scandal has awoken public interest in eating exotic meats, it is claimed.
Staff from Ank Marvin Ltd, which is based in Alexandra Park, off Wodborough Road, say orders are up for horse and other exotic meats they sell.
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Taste: Vicky Brown, director of meat firm Ank Marvin.
A burger stall run by the company was among traders at a food market in Nottingham's Old Market Square on Saturday.
Company director Vicky Brown sold a couple of hundred burgers, with zebra being by far the most popular.
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"The horse meat scandal has opened people's eyes a little bit," said Vicky, 37. "They are ordering more horse meat from us online.
"We hardly sold any horse before it, but sales have gone up quite a lot now.
"We've been in business four years and sell 30 different exotic meats, which are all imported directly from their country of origin."
She added: "The stall's been very busy, a lot busier then when we were last here in January. I think we've become very popular because of the health benefits of the meat, which is a lot leaner than beef.
"We started just doing ostrich but realised once people try that they'd try anything."
Among customers who bought a zebra burger from the stall were University of Nottingham student Jonny Pryn.
The 20-year-old English student, of Lenton, said: "To be honest I went for it because it was the closest thing to horse.
"It's got a more meaty taste to it, and an irony taste. I'd have it again."
Of the horse meat scandal, he added: "I've no problem with eating horse. I do have a problem with suppliers fooling people saying it's one thing and them getting something else.
"I think, though, it has all been blown out of proportion."
8 Comments
by kissit77
Monday, February 18 2013, 10:12PM
“Frogs legs,Fried guinea pig etc etc .......... Whether its a problem or a delicacy is all dependent on WHERE IN THE WORLD YOU ARE isnt it ?? .If i go abroad and order snails with shells in garlic ,THAT IS MY CHOICE! .If i go to a supermarket and buy a top brand product that claims it is beef ,burger or mainly beef ,Be it burgers sausages it is irrellevant!,with no word of the local horsey in it that IS What i expect simple as that .”
by mof_gedling
Monday, February 18 2013, 6:34PM
“i wouldnt really class horsemeat as "exotic",”
by BLawrenson
Monday, February 18 2013, 4:40PM
“"smirc" all the lamb we eat is fresh and locally sourced by our local butcher as is our beef and pork. Our butter is either Irish or British. I am sure that the suppliers chain for NZ lamb is clearer than that for bushmeat and it used to be shipped to UK, as was butter, because of the quantities involved .”
by GaryBulwell
Monday, February 18 2013, 12:47PM
“Traces of zebra have been found in Tescos barcodes.”
by smirc
Monday, February 18 2013, 12:20PM
“Are eating Zebra endangered? No. A 10 second internet search would tell you that. And I assume it it safe to assume that BLawrenson never eats lamb or butter from New Zealand?”
by FormerlyW
Monday, February 18 2013, 11:27AM
“"an irony taste."
I guess you have to have a taste for irony if you want to eat zebra because of the fuss about the lack of controls on food provenance due to the long supply lines in Europe.”
by BLawrenson
Monday, February 18 2013, 10:13AM
“I wonder what controls on rearing, slaughter, supply and disease risk are in place to ensure we don't have a repeat of the horse fiasco. Flying zebra meat thousands of miles to produce burgers does seem wasteful to say the least.”
by therealmetalmicky
Monday, February 18 2013, 9:45AM
“Just goes to show there are more really sad people in this World than we know about! Zebra Burger? aren't Zebra's an endangered Species?”