Don’t get me wrong I enjoy the show. Divine food, sexual tension between the contestants and George professing at exactly the same time each episode: ‘I think it needs more salt’. But now people are posting photos of their nightly meal on Facebook, and yesterday I was forced to sit in the kitchen while a family member who-shall-remain-nameless talked me through his wondrous, visionary method for a la carte Eggs de Scramble. I was thinking, turn it up! Do you really deserve a medal for knocking up eggs on toast? Meanwhile Matt Preston seems to have lost all sense of portion control, but that’s a whole other can of Grain-fed Worms infused with Truffle Oil and Rosemary.
Yes, Masterchef has a lot to answer for.
But what really floored me is news that the Minister for Agriculture & Food in WA has “approved the slaughter of horses for human consumption” (as read in The Age today), and a local ‘gourmet’ butcher will begin selling fresh horse steaks next week.
Now I must stress that when it comes to religious and cultural beliefs, I'm not casting aspersions on the diet choice of other races, where it is wholly acceptable to eat various meats including that of a horse (and by wholly I mean fully as I doubt they eat horses whole). What irks me is that the great Australian bandwagon will soon be in full swing with punters queuing up to try it; because Masterchef has made people think it’s not only acceptable, but trendy.
I apologise to those who think that, as I am not even vegetarian, these comments are hypocritical, inconsistent or both – horses for courses and all of that. But quite simply, I draw the line at eating horse meat. So friends, be warned, I will not take kindly to be being offered some at the next bbq I attend.
After all, Winston Churchill was clearly speaking metaphorically when he said: “There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.” The inside of a man, not insides!
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