Introduction: The first time I came into contact with horse meat was when a neighbor’s farm horse fell from a mountain road and died. At that time, the neighbors helped to bring the horse back, and after processing, several pots of stewed horse meat were made. I remember the neighbor brought me a pot with a lot of chili in it, and it’s so spicy that it’s delicious!
But to be honest, it has grown so big. For our rural areas where there are few horses, there used to be "killing cattle pot" (a place where cattle and selling meat) and “killing pig pots” exist here. There are many places where donkeys are raised, and there are places where donkeys are killed to sell meat, but I have never heard of "killing horse pot". The reason is whether horse meat is delicious or not, or because horses have a very low popularity among the people, that is to say, among livestock, they are not a large-scale livestock that is close to the people.
Of course, in some areas of our country, there are still more horses, such as Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang, where there are broad grasslands that are convenient for grazing and allow horses to move. They raise horses mainly using horses as a means of transportation or producing horse milk for other purposes. They were not used to eat meat before, and they belonged to "important materials." In these places, there are many horses, and some eliminated horses are used to the best of their ability, and the custom of eating horse meat has gradually formed among the people. Some places are famous for the food of horse "products". For example, smoked horse meat and smoked horse intestines in Yili, Xinjiang are essential foods for the Kazakhs during the winter. The end of November to December is the peak season for Kazakh herdsmen's bacon. At this time, they have to select some fat-bodied cattle, horses, and sheep after they are slaughtered, and then smoked to facilitate storage for winter consumption.
In most areas of our country, horses are not abundant, and there are very few horses even among the people. They just want to eat horse meat, and there is no condition to eat it! It's really a side of water and soil to raise a person. As for eating horse meat, there are some taboos in some places, just like donkey meat is not eaten in some places. Some folks think that eating horse meat is a "fat", but there is no scientific basis for it. For example, here in Hebei, donkey meat burning restaurants are blooming everywhere, very popular, people often eat donkey meat for breakfast. And some unscrupulous merchants sell horse meat as donkey meat. It's really hard to tell. I have eaten donkey meat for so many years and it is very difficult to distinguish between cooked donkey meat and horse meat! So you see, I have eaten donkey meat on fire for many years, maybe sometimes what I eat is horse meat, it tastes delicious after cooking!
There is an old saying: "Donkey meat is fragrant and horse meat is smelly. You should not eat mule meat if you kill it." This shows that horse meat is edible. It's just that the ancient cooking techniques are extensive, and the pure taste of horse meat itself is not as sweet as donkey meat. This is because horses are good at running and their sweat glands are relatively developed. Some people say "stinky", and the quality of horse meat is not as delicate as donkey meat, and the overall taste is not as good as donkey meat. Because the mule is the product of the combination of donkey and horse/horse and donkey, it is a "freak" of several families without children. People think that if they eat badly, they are actually better than horse meat and less frequent than donkey meat. To put it bluntly, as long as you have good cooking skills and are willing to use condiments such as "five-flower aniseed" to cook horse and mule gravy, it is also a very good delicacy.
So you see, compared to pig, beef, and mutton, people in our country generally eat less horse meat. It is also because horses are not like cattle, sheep and pigs, which are convenient for common people to raise, and the requirements for breeding conditions are relatively low, so the popularization rate of horses among the people is relatively low. If horses are as popular as cattle and sheep in the folk, just like the areas where horse raising is concentrated in our country, where there are open natural pastures for horses to graze, folks in these places have gradually developed the custom of eating horse meat. . In areas where the local population is relatively concentrated, even the Chollima has no suitable horse farms among the people. Since ancient times, horses have not been abundant, or there are no horses, and some people have never seen real horses, so they cannot be eaten. The custom of horse meat. This shows that, except for some areas where horses are abundant, people in most areas have not many people raising horses since ancient times, and certainly fewer people eat horse meat.
