My favorite mexican restaurant in down town Austin got closed because they were serving horse meat. It always tasted fine to me.
On the other and I won't eat hot dogs. We had a saying in our family "Liver, lips and lungs, ***holes, hearts and tongues, we just don't eat that boneless meat".
That is not a very exclusive club. Just because the USDA blesses a piece of meat doesn't mean it is of high quality. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a hotdog occasionally. I bet most of us do. But I think the product you are getting with zebra is probably better than the average hotdog and made of less distasteful parts.
From someone that has made roughly 25 million pounds of hot dogs and a couple hundred million pounds of sausage in my life you are in no way close to the truth.
The USDA has some of the highest if not the highest standards for food in the world.
That pink gunk everyone refers to is nothing but finely ground muscle and trim. It is emulsified to give hot dogs their unique texture and to ensure there are no large particle bone fragments considering that hot dogs are a very kid food to eat.
I've eaten zebra dozens of times in Africa. If you're eating the good parts (hams, backstrap, tenderloins) it's hard to tell the difference between chicken friend zebra and any venison you've ever eaten.
The best piece of game I ever ate was one of these guys, in Zimbabwe.
I have eaten a few of those bad boy's in my life. I keep telling people how good they are but they just keep sending them my way.
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