I’m afraid it’s true: there’s horsemeat all over Europe in all kinds of unexpected places, leading the European Union to take drastic measures in warning the public. What they’ve decided to do is to record a new version of the theme song for the old TV show Mister Ed, an American sit-com about a talking horse, warning consumers of the possibility of horsemeat passing itself off as beef in many foods, with the lyrics:
A morsel of horse, is coarse, of course,
And no-one would want to eat horse, of course,
We feel remorse if you ate horse,
When you thought it beef instead.
We went to the source and found that horse,
Was packaged as beef which we don’t endorse,
They will be punished in due course,
Eat fish for now instead.
People snackity snack on steak,
And eat food with meat all day,
So we’ll inspect and we’ll detect,
If there’s horsemeat in food again.
A horsemeat main course, is coarse, of course,
But with regulations that we’ll enforce,
You’ll never have to be eating horse,
And we promise this:
This will be fix-ed!
Here’s the original Mister Ed theme song the EU is basing their public horsemeat warning song on:
