Horse meat? – le coppiette

In a small village 30 mins south of Rome, I saw the spicy horse strips (le coppiette) in a prosciutto store. It looked very dry.

“The coppiette are some strips of meat, cut with special blades that preserved with salt and natural spices, and make mature about sixty days. Before they use meat of horse but at present, pork (thigh of the pig) is used instead.”

http://www.gustoblog.it/post/1335/coppiette

I am not sure the one I saw is horse or not, at least my friend said is horse. You can see it is 40 Euros/ kg. Too bad I didn’t try it. That store has all kinds of Salami, very imressive!