[Sca-cooks] OOP? Raw meat...

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

> Hullo, the list!
>
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>
> So the question now becomes, how much of a tradition in the Western
> World, outside of the wealthy  eating Steak Tartare at The Four
> Seasons or some such, existed? Does anybody remember a parent or
> grandparent, possibly one who would sneer at fancy presentations with
> egg yolks and capers, grossing out the kids by eating raw meat on rye
> with maybe a few pickles?
>
> I'm just wondering if perhaps this kind of thing was more widespread
> fifty years ago than we'd like to believe now, or have been told.
> Comments? Info?
>
> Adamantius

My German grandparents (well, ok, German and Swedish and Austrian) ate
headcheese and blood sausage, and my grandfather used to reminisce about
goose fat smeared on rye bread, but I don't remember any eating of any raw
meat.

The PA side of the family is in part, AFAIK, descended from some
Hessians who came to fight and stayed (thus they are also German), and I
don't remember any of them eating raw meat either.

Margaret