Lamb kebabs found to contain goat, skin and fat

foodJul 3, 20261992

DNA testing and trading standards investigations found kebabs sold as lamb by Kismet Kebabs were largely goat, animal skin and fat. Swansea trading standards began random tests in 2020 and 2021 and reported products labelled as "70% lamb" showing less than 10% sheep DNA. Investigators raided Kismet's Latchingdon, Essex factory in May 2021 and found pallets of goat, boxes of fat and skin and high-fat trim being minced together. One doner labelled as 87% lamb was measured at 40% animal fat. Kismet Kebabs, which supplied fast-food outlets across the UK, admitted a fraud dating back to 2021, was fined £500,000 and is estimated to have made £6 million from the offending. Swansea trading standards officer Rhys Harries compared the scale of the case to the 2013 horsemeat scandal, and councils across England had been writing to complain about Kismet's labelling and meat content. Two officers spent 18 months reviewing invoices and paperwork to quantify the volume of mislabelled product sold to wholesalers and shops.

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

475h 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 Hurley84

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.

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.

173h 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...

97h 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.

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...

34h ago

Found a guy that did my name before me2

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

scruss2

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

Ana Hunt1

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

Brian Kane1

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

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.

317h 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.

31h 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

31h ago

Almightrex

@almightrex.bsky.social

um, lamb kebabs made of goat are, err, goat kebabs, just say, 'goat kebabs sold as lamb'

217h ago

James Oswald

@sirbenfro.bsky.social

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

21h ago

Jez Conolly

@jezconolly.bsky.social

What I find amusing about this is that I’m willing to bet many doner kebab fans, upon learning their favourite takeaway contains less than 10% sheep, will be ‘really? That much?’ That’s assuming they’re even aware that kebabs are *meant* to be comprised of lamb. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

12h ago

Mykomment

@mykomment.bsky.social

How does anyone ever eat this stuff in particular? Kebabs www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

18h ago

Martin Nutbeem

@martinnutbeem.bsky.social

Yeah, this is the crux of the story - people might be eating mechanically recovered/reconstituted goat kebabs instead of recovered/reconstituted lamb kebabs. Which, fair I guess. But I reckon most people wouldn't care cos 2am and many beers in.

14h ago

noticias_venezuela_news ✅

@venezuelanewschepa.bsky.social

Millions may have eaten goat meat disguised as lamb in kebabs, exposing Venezuela’s economic collapse under Delcy Rodríguez’s regime. --- *[Nota: Aunque el titular no menciona a Maduro, el contexto de corrupción y crisis refleja la herencia del chavismo. La ironía subraya cómo la ...

2h ago

Mark of the Beesting

@spinoff44.bsky.social

"10% sheep. The rest is skin, fat and goat" Secret recipe finally revealed! Now your homemade kebabs can be just as tasty as the takeaway! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

2h ago

News Ticker

@headline-feed.bsky.social

[BBC] GOAT AND SKIN IN MILLIONS OF 'LAMB' KEBABS COMPARED TO HORSEMEAT LASAGNE SCANDAL

8h ago

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