Lamb kebabs found to contain goat, skin and fat

foodJul 3, 202633188

Kismet Kebabs, a major UK doner kebab supplier, was fined £500,000 after DNA tests and a 2021 raid found products labelled as lamb were largely goat, skin and fat. Trading standards testing in Swansea in 2020 and 2021 showed kebabs sold as 70 percent lamb contained less than 10 percent sheep, and some products labelled up to 87 percent lamb were found to be 40 percent animal fat. Inspectors who visited the Latchingdon, Essex, factory in May 2021 reported pallets of goat, trays of trim, boxes of fat and skin and bits of mutton being minced into large kebab sticks. Councils around England had complained about Kismet’s labelling, investigators spent 18 months reviewing invoices and paperwork, and authorities estimate the firm made about £6 million from the fraud. Kismet said the offences related to historical events under different leadership, while trading standards called the case straightforward food fraud and compared its scale to the 2013 horsemeat scandal. The company had supplied fast food outlets across the UK, meaning millions of takeaway customers probably ate kebabs that were not what they were labelled to be.

Slurms MacKenzie

@slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social

As with the Findus Crispy Horse Cakes, it's not the fact that it's a different meat that's the issue (both horse and goat are obviously very tasty), it's that they've been lying to you and could have been feeding you anything

4945d ago

Alice Bennett7

Also there are different veterinary meds for animals which are pets and which are for consumption - which was a potential issue with horsemeat. It‘s deception, as you say, but also very murky supply chains.

ordinary jo6

tbf the horsemeat scandal wasn't a scandal solely because it was mislabelled. Horsemeat raised for human consumption is more expensive than beef. But it was turning up in cheap beef products at around the same time as the media were reporting on pet horses being abandoned after the financial crash.

David Neil Robinson5

We are days away from Wheat products being disclosed as ground up locusts

Henno4

You’re also paying lamb prices for your goat meat.

Just a chimp4

You can have my mystery meat when you prise it from my greasy fingers

Melissa3

Fined 10% of the money gained from the scam.... Hmmmm, brb gonna sell definitely legit food. Like the horsemeat scandal, just label it properly and no-one cares. Takeaway pizza switched to turkey ham decades ago and only people that put flags on lampposts get mad... So no real loss.

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Lee Hurley104

Made £6m from this fraud. Were fined £500,000. I'm no business or legal whizz but that looks like it's a fraud worth committing 🤔

Steve Chambers3

Their logo is a heart with blood pouring from it and their name is written out in the blood.

Elle

@elleisanisland.bsky.social

The BBC is reporting that many kebabs sold are goat and not lamb like it's a huge scandal but people are mostly just happy it's actual meat

3144d ago

Elle17

"But it's goat!" Seriously, I've been afraid these donairs are made of horse hoof. This is a win

Thomas O’Mahony

@gotitatguineys.bsky.social

This story dropped 5 hours ago and I’m already seeing far right conspiracies about how Muslims are intentionally poisoning British (white) people with goat meat.

2345d ago

Rich

@rich-bryant.uk

Is it aye? Here's a quick test - pop into your butcher and ask for the price of a lamb joint and a goat joint. Goat is much more expensive. So let's just take this with a pinch of chilli sauce and salad, shall we? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

1245d ago

Rich7

tHeY'rE cHeAtInG bY uSiNg rEaLLy eXpEnSiVe mEaT - yeah fuck off.

Jamie Douglass4

there used to be one (1) butcher in Oxford where you could get goat meat. He was on the Cowley Road, and he had to like you. Seriously, where are these places doing goat kebabs? I'm THERE

Duncan Hothersall

@dhothersall.bsky.social

Making kebabs out of goat meat, beef fat and chicken skin and then labelling them up as 70% lamb feels like it deserves a bigger penalty than a £500k fine to a £20m turnover company.

1044d ago

Duncan Hothersall5

At the same time, discovering that kebabs you thought were 70% lamb were actually goat meat, beef fat and chicken skin feels almost like a relief when in the back of your mind you always assumed they were probably dog, cat or miscellaneous roadkill.

Root Veg Serf. Shadow Minister for Root Crop & Gin Production1

the beef fat and chicken skin is bad, but lamb or goat? not much difference. Unlike beef and Shergar in the lasagne.

James Oswald

@sirbenfro.bsky.social

A lot of people seeing this and finding out for the first time that kebabs are made from lamb.

945d ago

Micky Bun

@mr-bun.bsky.social

BBC News - Lamb donner kebabs made of goat compared to horsemeat in lasagne scandal - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

945d ago

Micky Bun3

I remember the first donner kebab shop opening in my town. Went there every lunch time, I thought it was so exotic! 🤣🤣🤣

Tony Slattery's Rambling Club2

I remember Miles Jupp commenting on the horsemeat scandal "When I was a student I used to go to Tesco and get eight burgers for 20p. I would have been *delighted* to know there was anything as high-quality as horsemeat in them" Prophetic?

Paul Rogers 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🜃1

The best kebab I ever had was in the early '80s in Croydon, just before the shop was raided and shut down for having greyhounds in the freezer.

Dale Vince

@dalevince.com

I always think of a particular episode of Red Dwarf when I think of kebabs - Rimmer’s test of drunkenness, is to ask who wants a kebab - the resulting enthusiastic answer gives the game away…:) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

845d ago

Silversprite

@silversprite.bsky.social

In disturbing kebab news. Which I'm posting about to pre-empt the inevitable comments by my cute attaché in Berlin. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

545d ago

Found a guy that did my name before me3

Really struggling to believe all of this about the generic grey mush, is nothing sacred

Ana Hunt3

It’s a pretty loose distinction in a lot of Middle Eastern recipes! This doesn’t bother me at all.

scruss3

Oh dear. In many cultures, lamb = goat. That delicious mutton curry you had? Probably goat.

Brian Kane2

I always figured kebabs, gyros, etc. were made of "meat" in the first place.

Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱

@dailyherald.bsky.social

UK Kebab Supplier Fined £500,000 for Labeling Goat as Lamb Kismet Kebabs Ltd, a major Essex producer, admitted fraudulently labeling products as 50% to 90% lamb doner meat, while DNA tests showed less than 10% sheep in key samples.

344d ago

Dave Jones

@popzeus.bsky.social

The whole point of a kebab is that it's delicious mystery meat shaved off a big meat lolly. Anyone who would be alarmed to learn that goat was in it almost certainly doesn't eat kebabs in the first place.

545d ago

dannysdad

@dannysdad.bsky.social

People crying about whether meat is halal or not, while queueing down the kebab house. It's not even meat! Yuk!! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

145d ago

gabundy

@gabundy.blog

Big News. Apparently doner kebabs from a takeaway may not be 100% choice cuts of British Lamb... Who'd have thunk it?

445d ago

Jamie Douglass

@jamesldouglass.bsky.social

there used to be one (1) butcher in Oxford where you could get goat meat. He was on the Cowley Road, and he had to like you. Seriously, where are these places doing goat kebabs? I'm THERE

445d ago

Gosunkugi

@gosunkugi.bsky.social

I'ma be real here. Alcohol might play a part, but do you see people complaining? And sure, telling people it's lamb is wrong, so I think they should run with it. Just sell goat meat kebabs, there's no shame in it.

345d ago

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bbc.co.ukLamb kebabs made of goat compared to horsemeat in lasagne scandal

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Lamb kebabs found to contain goat, skin and fat

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