So as we sat down to our usual so-cheap-it-might-as-well-be-free-breakfast at the IKEA in Costa Mesa, my better half notices a sticker on the poster board with a picture of their meatball plate on it.
As shown above, it said, quite plainly, “Our meatballs are from a US supplier — sourced from US and Canada only. Only beef and pork meat products used. 100% USDA approved.”
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It was, of course, a response to the recent revelation that IKEA stores in Europe, as with Burger King and Taco Bell, have discovered there were trace amounts of horse meat in their beef products.
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Before becoming an award-winning restaurant critic for OC Weekly in 2007, Edwin Goei went by the alias “elmomonster” on his blog Monster Munching, in which he once wrote a whole review in haiku.