‘Lamb’ kebab fans are unknowingly eating mystery meat including goat and ‘skin’
The grim discovery was first made in 2020 (Picture: Getty)
Kebabs are one of the UK’s favourite takeaways, but millions of customers may have consumed goat, skin and fat instead of lamb.
A BBC investigation has found that one of the UK’s largest kebab makers, which distributes doners to shops around the country, has been flogging mystery meats.
Kismet Kebabs was fined £500,000 after admitting to fraud dating back to 2021, after tests found that kebabs they claimed were ‘70% lamb’ contained ‘less than 10% sheep DNA’.
Swansea trading standards officer Rhys Harries said: ‘I think some customers won’t be surprised there’s a lot of skin and fat in these products – but I don’t think many people will be expecting goat.’
Investigators found no shipments of lamb at Kismet Kebabs’ factory (Picture: Getty)
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After raiding a Kismet Kebab factory in 2021, investigators found that the factory had no shipments of lamb.
Harries added: ‘There were pallets of goat, pallets of trim, offcuts with high it content, boxes of fat, boxes of skin, bits of mutton. It all goes into a massive mincer and comes out looking like Play-Doh.
‘It’s almost the same as the horsemeat scandal, because of the volume of product that was going out of this factory.
The situation has been compared to the Tesco horsemeat scandal (Picture: Getty)
Some have compared the findings to the horse meat scandal, which plagued Tesco shops in the 2010s.
In 2013, Tesco made international headlines after selling beef burgers containing horse meat.
Kismet Kebabs is still in operation and has changed leadership since the time of the fraudulent practice.
In a statement, the company said: ‘It is important to recognise that the matters in question relate to historical events and do not reflect the standards, systems, management structure, or operational controls that exist within the business today,” a spokesperson added.’
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