Why the Long Face? Tesco Saddled with Wry Horsemeat Memes in Burger Row [SLIDESHOW]

Why The Long Face? Horsemeat Memes Whipped Up Following Burger Outrage

Internet users have got creative at the news that beefburgers sold by a number of supermarket chains including Tesco contained horsemeat.

Tesco was found to be the worst offender, with its burgers containing 29 percent horsemeat in tests by Irish food authority officials. The company promptly issued an apology to its customers, saying that the Food Standards Authority findings were "unacceptable".

In response to this mane-stream news item, people have been horsing around on Photoshop and a number of memes have ridden online. Here are a few of the best.

Photo:http://technology.ie Godfather horsemeat

The Godfather

Jack Woltz may have been just as terrified to wake up to a horsemeat burger masquerading as beef as he was of a horse head in The Godfather

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Horsing around

Tesco was found to be the worst offender in the burger debacle - with 29 percent of its 'beef' coming from horse

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Unexpected item

Internet users have refused to rein in the fun over the Food Standards Agency findings

Photo:technology.ie Let's make a burger

Making burgers

Horses and cows are biologically tot dissimilar to mate for real, so the burger meat was mixed in a factory

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Cheval délicieuse

In France, horsemeat is considered a delicacy and is more expensive than beef

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So hungry I could eat a Value burger

Ingredients of Tesco Value burgers are beef, onion, wheat flour, water, beef fat, soya, protein isolate, salt, onion powder, yeast, sugar, barley malt extract, garlic powder, white pepper extract, celery extract, onion extract. No horse.

Photo:Sarcastic Scouser/Twitter Takeaway burgers

Takeaway burgers

Tim Lang, a professor of food policy at City University in London, claimed Tesco could have been selling horsemeat burgers to its unsuspecting customers for years

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What next?

David Cameron said the horsemeat fiasco was a 'completely unacceptable state of affairs'. 'It is an extremely serious issue. People in our country will have been very concerned to read that when they thought they were buying beefburgers they were buying something with horse meat in it.'