Local farmer who raises Angus beef and registered Morgan horses. A friend of mine who lives near her has bought beef from her before, and he took the other half. A local butcher who has also done some deer for me did the processing and did a real nice job. http://www.fingerlakesmeat.com/home.html Pretty happy so far with everything we've tried, the delmonico cuts have been awesome.
Oh, I was wondering if you were TX-local. Beautiful country up there, how yall handle the winters I have no idea. Do you know how to rope and break a mustang? I suggest watching/trying it once. Once. The French and lots of people really like to eat horse, tried once and that was enough. It was really good but I just couldn't get the image/thought out of my head, kinda like eating a cat or dog.
A lot has changed since 2010. Rudy's wouldn't even make my top 5 list anymore. Maybe closer to the bottom of top 10. It's still pretty good, and I agree with you on the sauce as being one of the better ones, but I definitely wouldn't say it's the best now after having tried so many more BBQ places since 2010.
In the 50s and early 60s Redtop inns (their version of Dairy Queen) in Louisiana had horse meat in their burgers they did not advertise it . You just had to ask but I didn't know. It tasted strange and about 20 minutes when I had crossed into Texas I was so sick that I had to pull over and heave, A state trooper pulled over and gave me a coke. He told me most troopers in that area carried a chest full of coke or 7up or bubble up for all the tourist that came through from Louisiana that had stopped and eaten at the Redtop inn. .
We have Rudy's in Colorado and it's not even the best here. I can't imagine how anyone would think its the best in Texas
I had horse meat in Italy, besides being dry and gamey, it didn't make me sick. Sicilians grill horse meat steaks for street food....
Horsemeat has been edible for human consumption for pretty much forever. They tried to ban it for about 5 years, but then it went right back up to FDA standards for eating.
I would guess that has more to do with the freshness and cleanliness of the kitchen/food than it does with type of meat.