On Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:31:36 -0400, Dave Smith wrote:

> Matthew Malthouse wrote:
>> On Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:11:09 -0400, Dave Smith
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> I just started reading a book about Attila the Hun, and the Huns, and it
>>> tells an interesting tale about the possible origins of Steak Tartare.
>>> I have to say that it made me wonder how anyone can eat it. According to
>>> the book, the Huns used to lay chunks of meat under their saddles,
>>> partly to cushion the horse's back. It picked up a lot of salt from the
>>> horse sweat. Eventually they would eat it.
>>> I may never again eat steak Tartare.
>>
>> But after a week riding the steppe it'd be far more beef jerky than
>> steak tartar.
>
> Perhaps so, but the idea of using a chunk of beef as a saddle cushion
> and sopping up all that horse sweat for a few weeks and then eating it
> is enough to make me retch. . Thanks, but no thanks.

horse meat from under the saddle when you ride a cow is much better.

your pal,
blake