Horse meat the traditional "Sauerbraten" in horse meat, typically with a beef variant to choose from. Other traditional horse meat dishes include the Swabian "Pferderostbraten" (a joint of roast meat prepared similarly to roast beef), Bavarian sausage varieties such as "Rosswurst" and "Ross-Kochsalami" as well as "Ross-Leberkäse", a meatloaf dish. The 2013 meat adulteration scandal started when German authorities detected horse meat in prepared food products including frozen lasagna, where it was declared fraudulently as beef. The mislabeling prompted EU authorities to speed up publication of European Commission recommendations for labeling the origin of all processed meat. In Hungary, horse meat is
Meat pie the modern day crust began to be used. Missionaries and explorers spread the meat-based pie dish across the globe. The English Pilgrims of the North American colonies brought the recipes across the ocean with them. The crust of the pie was useful to preserve food during the long winter months in America (just as the pies were used in antiquity). But the pie was not considered popular there until the 1800s, and today meat pies have lost their popularity to be replaced with sweet pies. The Natchitoches meat pie is one of the official state foods of the US state