What's in your burger?

Shergar burgers at Tesco

There's going to be some cheap, part-defrosted burgers on the market. Hurry. They're in rubbish containers near you right now. While stocks last. There's a horsemeat-avesrion spectrum. From the 'so what?' to the total meltdown. Or the normal to the stupidly anal. No doubt the wrong end of the spectrum will include individuals claiming their lives are in tatters after eating burgers with between 29% and traces of horsemeat. They also found some pig DNA in the beefburgers. Whoops! There's some more going off pop among the super-anal.

It may not be meat, in any case. Other parts are used as binders, and other elements of making a cheap, frozen, puck of whatever convenient for the busy mum of today, as she rushes from Iceland to Lidl collecting pre-packaged, chemically treated, inedible filth along her path. Like hooves. They have glue-like qualities, when melted down, don't they?

The reason these things belong in the bin is that they're absolutely awful. Tasting. I'd happily scoff something decent with whatever DNA, rat, roadkill, human, in whatever quantities you like, and reject supermarket frozen cabinet rubbish on the grounds that more is spent on the packaging and promotion than on the contents, and therefore the contents taste dreadful, or of nothing at all.

Now our busy mums can turn to their moaning little brats and say: “shut up, and eat your horse burger”.

NY new gun laws...

...are among the toughest in the states. Way to go New York. Apparently, including other measures, it will now be 'more difficult' for people with mental problems to purchase firearms.

Going out on a limb here, but what does 'more difficult' mean? I was a teenage werewolf, but I'm alright noooowwwwwwwwww. Aw, g'wan mister, sell me a gun. I 'aint dun had a turn since 2009...

How's the gunshop bloke meant to assess the mental capabilities or otherwise of his customers? Are people going to have to carry, among all that other stuff, proof of sanity? It could be a bit awkward for the counter assistant. People walking in twitching and shouting, dressed in odd clothes, only to sue for trauma when questioned about their mental history.