Beef. Horse. Easy mistake to make, isn't it? Both have four hooves, both can jump over fences, both have a tendency to occasionally fall (or be tipped) over and struggle to get back onto all fours. To all intents and purposes, they are very similar animals, right?
Wrong, Mr Findus! You couldn't be more wrong. Horses and cows are very very different. You couldn't begin to imagine how different they are. It should have been glaringly obvious to Findus that what they were sticking into their vat of bolognaise sauce was not bovine but indeed equine.
And how should they have known the difference?
Simple. They should have looked at how the animals got up.
Witness. Here is a cow getting up from having a lie down in a field.
And here is a horse doing the same.
Perhaps this is why we don't like eating Shergar but we're happy enough to eat Ermintrude. After all, the pony above looks almost human-esque as he has a little sit down before continuing his arduous day of grazing, whinnying and generally prancing around. In contrast, the cow looks a bit ridiculous.
Either way, this is Farmyard Fridays Fact #2: Cows get up back legs first; horses get up front legs first.
For shame, Mr Findus.
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