The My Little Pony Burger and other things at the Big Pest Dinner

Pigeon, Parakeet And Pony: Amsterdam Food Truck Serves Maligned Meat : The Salt : NPR:

In Amsterdam, two artists are trying to widen their city's list of local tasty creatures — and expand minds, too — with dishes like the My Little Pony Burger, Peace Pigeon and Bambi Ball.
Their project, The Kitchen Of The Unwanted Animal is a food truck and specialty food provider featuring animals that are, generally, considered pests and almost always considered inedible. ...
The Kitchen For The Unwanted Animal hosts a five-course "Big Pest Dinner" with a local restaurant twice a year.
The "Big Pest Dinner" menu — and that of the food truck — changes based on what's available at the time. Which brings us to, maybe, the menu item that draws the most attention: the My Little Pony Burger.
Many people in Holland have horses as pets. But as Hagenouw tells it, during the economic crisis in 2011-2012, many families had to give them up because of the high cost of taking care of them. The sale price for a horse dropped by 80 percent.
There were a lot of horses on the market — and many ended up at the butcher. The Kitchen started buying meat from one of a few butchers that specialize in processing horse meat. The food truck now sells about 100 burgers a day at festivals.
"It's nice meat," Hagenouw says. "'Ah, they have My Little Pony burgers,' little girls will say. Most of the time the girls eat the burgers; it's the mothers who don't like it."

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