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[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 77 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 48 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I always knew lasagna was horse. How else could they glue the layers together?

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They deliver it at superluminal speeds and the speed keeps everything together.

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[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 24 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Horse meat is absolutely tasty, and if it wasn't so unpopular it'd probably be in the same price range as beef, overall the market is quite small, and absolutely zero horses are raised for meat. Bluntly said at the end of a horse's career an owner is asked "do you want an urn, vacuum packs, or not pay anything I'll sell the meat". If your dietary preference for meat is animals which have been loved and pampered all their life horse is a very good choice.

Trouble with the scandal back then was that it was all untracked horse meat. And there's plenty of horses around which get treated with veterinary drugs that make them unsuitable for human consumption because no owner is prioritising slaughter over their health.

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Eh, it goes on the plate like frogs do. Horse meat is great and cheaper than beef here

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago
[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I ate horse meat before. It was chewy, and I have special ethical issues with it, like for me it's like eating a Dog. It does not matter even if it where tasty.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Your dog would not mind eating your horse. Your dog also wouldn't mind eating you.

There's two principal reasons why people make a difference between cats/dogs on the one side and horses on the other: The degree to which they're family, but very crucially also to the degree to which horses, or cows, very much aren't carnivores, it's about position on the foodchain, how much heavy metals etc. accumulate, that's not just a modern thing it's always been the case. That's why eating dogs is an exception among human cultures, while with cows not eating them is the exception.

[–] GenerationII@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I removed myself from the food chain a decade and a half ago by forgoing meat entirely. Now I don't have to have weird moral arguments with myself.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Nah, you're just occupying another spot on it. And unless you're an algae or something, literally living from light and elements floating about in the air and sea, you're not at the bottom.

The ecology expands beyond your pet ethical considerations.

Side question: Would you begrudge your dog eating your corpse? If you love them so much, why don't you feed them, when that is all you have left to give?

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[–] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

I checked the best before dates of all the beef lasagne meals I have... and they're off

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 43 points 2 months ago (5 children)

How did I get to thirty before realizing the expression comes from people eating horses when they're starving and have no other option

[–] darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Buddy, I'm 41, and I always thought until just now it was saying you were "so hungry you could eat a(n entire) horse."

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

That's how I've always interpreted it too.

[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 months ago

OHHH

I thought it's just because horses are so big, because you're so hungry that nothing smaller could satisfy your hunger.

So, if you're even hungrier than that, the expression could be "I'm so hungry I could eat Jimmy".

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It's pretty much an Anglo Saxon exception that horse meat isn't eaten... It's not as popular as it once was in Quebec, but it used to be readily available...

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[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Which expression? I'm fluent in English but don't know all expressions

[–] teft@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 months ago

Makes sense. Thanks!

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

I joke that it's the Very Wasteful Caterpillar. Damn thing eats a single hole through the middle of a fruit, abandons it, and moves onto the next food item. Not cool, caterpillar. Not cool.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 27 points 2 months ago

Not that hungry...

Yet...

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

So hungry, I could eat a The Picard Maneuver!

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

I'm so hungry I could eat 55 BURGERS 55 FRIES 55 TACOS 55 PIES 55 COKES 100 TATER TOTS 100 PIZZA 100 TENDERS 100 MEATBALLS 100 COFFEES 55 WINGS 55 SHAKES 55 PANCAKES 55 POTATOES 55 PASTAS AND 155 TATERS

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[–] e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Elongated nostrils, white showing in the eyes and ears close to the neck. That is a very angry horse.

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Widened eyes and flaring nostrils can also be fear, no?

[–] martinb@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 months ago

Safe to assume that it's not a happy Dobbin

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It's a horse. There's always at least 90% fear

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 5 points 2 months ago

In any case, that horse is ready to go

[–] e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago

True, the raised head could indicate that. Hard to tell from a picture alone.

[–] distantsounds@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 months ago

Ooh I've been there

[–] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Calm down, I said eat out 😏

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

This post is about a horse, sir.
Not a cow... like your mom!

[–] Godric@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

You just roasted the shit out his mom.

What a shame, I prefer a medium rare

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[–] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Just win that race ok

[–] sit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago

Brotha neighhh

[–] neo2478@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago

Where I live it’s common enough that there is a stall in the farmers market that sells horse meat and sausage.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Why did your drug test came back positive

horse meat man

[–] qevlarr@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Totally forgot about that.

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I actually ate horsemeat once at a (supposedly) Mongolian restaurant. Nothing memorable compared to other types of meat

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[–] DampCanary@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

some days,
you are juust mortadella di cavallo hungry

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