[wmt]

Finland still carries horse meat, but it's still a rarity, as nobody grows horses for making meat, and it's just adult horses that were put down for some other reason. The nice thing about it being so rare is that it's really cheap! You might get a good horse steak from the meat counter half the price of the best beef steaks, and it's much better than any beef steak I've ever eaten in any country.

Reindeer steaks on the other hand, those are among the best steaks made out of any animal I've eaten. There the price comes from the fact that reindeer herds need hundreds if not thousands of square kilometres to roam freely. The good thing is that Finland has 123 000 sqkms of wilderness (roughly the size of Greece or Mississippi) officially dedicated for herding reindeer!

[onre]

The reason for it being rare here in Finland is the lack of demand.

Most horses that are put down would be perfectly fine for human consumption, but slaughterhouses do not buy them for the aforementioned reason. The primary consumer of horse meat in Finland is the sausage industry, and they buy cheap South American meat by ton.

[gambiting]

"The nice thing about it being so rare is that it's really cheap!" Not to be picky, but it has everything to do with there being no demand for that meat. In Poland, we have a very small population of native Bison, which is under extreme protection - but nevertheless, sometimes they have to be killed to protect the herd or for some other reasons. When they are, the meat goes for thousands of euros on the international market because it's such a rarity.

[HeyLaughingBoy]

We have bison farms here (Minnesota: north central US), I'm surprised if the meat is that much in demand, someone in Poland hasn't tried farming them.

And yes, bison is tasty!

[mynameishere]

I suppose European reindeer are different, but Canadian reindeer (caribou) is the worst meat I've ever tasted, aside from beef liver.

[meric]

If we're counting internal organs, I'd say pig brains is just about the worst.

[timonovici]

I think that's just personal taste :) I remember eating fried pigs brain, rolled in flour, and it was delicious. Also, pigs testicles are quite good if fried in a certain way (with lots of garlic and wine), but disgusting in every other way I tried.

[murbard2]

Does anything rolled in flour and deep fried actually taste bad?