Horse Meat 1950's

[DulwichFox]

When I was a Child, I lived in Peckham...

On the corner of Radnor Rd and Commercial Way was a covered Yard where they cut up Horses..

They wern't slaughtered there.. (Least I don't think so) .

The carcasses came in trucks and was butchered there. The smell in the summer was awful.

I assume the 'meat' was destined for pet food, but being just after the War, 1950's

was it possible it would of been for human consumption. ?

Bones used to make Glue ???

Anyone live in that area at that time and remember it.

Fox..

PS. Anyone still up for a Nice Rare Burger.. ?

[steveo]

Changing the subject, I've worked on farms and unavoidably smelled the animals.

On a scale they are:

Human shit, awful, (I didn't work on a human farm, but I've chuffed it)

Chicken shit, ghastly, the smell of fear

Cow shit, tolerable

Goat shit, negligible

Horse shit, aristocratic

[DulwichFox]

These Horses were Dead...

Dead Horses no longer shit...

They were just carcasses.. No Guts or inards as far as I remember..

Just the stench of un-refridgerated meat 'going off' on a Hot summers day.

Foxy...

[malumbu]

My late father told me that there was a horse meat restauarant in London sometime round then.

Drive on the M56 when they are rendering carcasses - pooey

Or just burn some of your hair, and you get the same smell (not so strong)