Lamb kebabs containing little (or no) actual lamb.
You’ve got to be kidding!
It’s been a few decades since I last ate a kebab from a kebab shop, but I think everyone was always aware that the meat was hardly of the highest quality. That it should turn out to contain very little lamb, or even none at all, is on one level quite amusing though. Particularly as there seems to be some sort of horror about the idea of eating goat. I don’t have a problem with that at all. The photo in the article of the ground up “meat paste” isn’t desperately appealing though.
The most bizarre part of the article for me however is the quote from the business’s representative in court saying that the company had “taken its eye off the ball”. I’m sure you don’t accidentally go ordering “waste” pork, goat and mutton instead of lamb by accident. I’m sure surprised they took their eye off the ball though. They probably threw it in with all the other ingredients.
So, on my list of food that has been found to be fake, say, since 2000, we have:
- Beef that was actually horsemeat
- Extra virgin olive oil that wasn’t
- Honey that hasn’t been anywhere near a beehive
- Italian tomato paste that was actually Chinese
- Mineral water that didn’t meet the standards set for quality
- Chicken that had been condemned as unfit for human consumption
- Wasabi that is actually horseradish
- Lamb kebabs that aren’t lamb
I’m sure there will be others that I’ve forgotten. And I’ll step away from the crab sticks, but the videos are on YouTube if you want to watch them.
