I remember, as a much more healthier, younger person (err 80’s) I played rugby for England. A group of 18 to 21 year old “tough guys” were confronted with grilled horse meat and salad, plenty of protein and chips on the side was the morning fare.
Not many of the English lads ate the meat, I did and loved it. So much more flavour than the stuff we got at home.
I still buy it in Calais on my return to the UK.
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Nice memory 
There used to be Boucheries Chevalines that only sold horsemeat..
When I studied in France, at the student restaurant if you ordered a grilled steak 3 out of 4 times it was horsemeat They said it was random but I always seemed to land the horsemeat (tougher). I never did crack who you had to suck up to, to get thr beef steaks but some people did manage it.
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Our horse butcher must have closed decades ago and you can’t get it here at the supermarket, despite its being a rural backwater.
I’m wondering if it’s maybe a class or age or even region taste for the French. (Or we might be an exception, of course. Or they may sell it, and call it beef!)
Horton?
I imagine it’s only a question of time before Farage, or one of his millionaire backers more likely, copies the concept and offers British punters an evening of pork pies, toad-in-the-hole and bread pudding to the sound of Rule Britannia and Beatles hits.
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Don’t want to feed the algorithm so no link, but…
NIGEL Farage is charging fans more than £500 to have dinner with him on an upcoming tour of Australia.
Supporters of the ex-Ukip boss must fork out around a week’s average salary if they want to sit down for a chat with him.
Dinner with Farage in Australia - a combination many will find hard to resist! 
Maybe he’s starting his farewell tour? According to what I’ve read, he faces four separate allegations of impropriety.
Well if I were there, I’d pay that just to call him a bollox to his face. The Aussie’s like plain taking
Is he “performing” in Perth? I might just pay my daughter an earlier visit than planned. A bit of heckling from a south London accent might soften his cough I could raise a few grifting issues our antipodean friends may not be aware of.
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I think it was a while back.
2018?
Only if he is being transported to a penal colony at Botany Bay. 
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Quite possibly. I wasn’t going to sully my laptop by searching on his name. I know I have read of his fundraising events.
I think that option ended a while back. How about that island way up north where the MoD tested anthrax in the 1950s?
I think there’s room for the entire HoC up there.
Gruinard? Yes that could work!
Actually the anthrax tests were in 1942, so the UK could retaliate if the Germans used biological weapons.
After pressure from environmental groups the government did a huge cleanup in the 1980s.
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I guess we’re staging The Hunger Games on South Georgia then. 
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