I'm German and I eat Mett all the time. Its kinda a tradition but also really fucking tasty. Also you can get it anywhere but fresh from the fleischtheke is the best
Nebraskan here. Most of the people in my area have German ancestry. I remember my grandparents (born in the 1920's) eating it though it was usually more of a special occasion type dish like when having guests over. I remember them sitting around a table with their friends, playing cards, smoking, drinking Schlitz and snacking on Mett the whole evening. They used beef and pickled onions though. A lot of the small town grocery stores used to make it on the spot if you wanted some.
Now that their generation is mostly gone, no one really eats it anymore
Yeah making it with pork requires very strict precautions in the entire process that you simply donât find outside of Germany. Otherwise raw pork can be quite the health hazard.
I used to work as AU Pair back in 2011 in Germany, it was cool to taste it, but people are usually so scared about raw pork, while veel tartar or sushi seem ok to them)
A bit like that yeah, but a Fleischerei has a Theke or Ladentheke (store-theke) inside so calling the Theke in the Fleischerei Fleischtheke is redundant. (At a super market can be more than one type, Fleischtheke, Käsetheke (cheese), Backtheke (bakery) etc.
The word is a loanword from Greek but in German it is a table for displaying and selling things from.
I don't know to be honest but I've never heard any stories of people getting sick because of mett (or beef tatar, which is essentially the same concept) but you do hear of the occasional guy who ate bad fish.
I see the general principle, and sure it's probably an artefact of how clean you can get artisanal pork in Germany (would you make mett with Aldi cuts?), but beef is undeniably a lot cleaner than pork unless the cows have been stored in truly atrocious conditions. Generally searing the outside is enough to kill parasites as they tend to not live inside the muscle.
I thought pork parasites were generally more aggessive than beef ones.
the meat is getting tested and if you really want to eat mett it has to be processeed on the same day, so it is as good and fresh as it gets. personally i have never seen or heard from someone that had an issue with mett
The pork is heavily controlled to make sure there is no parasite infestation. Hence i wouldnt try or in every country. German law consideres pork eaten raw because of Mett.
In Germany it is mandatory to test every pig fĂźr Trichinella. Even hunters are obligated to test the hunted omnivores, wild boar and badger for Exemplar. Therefor it is save to eat fresh (max 24h old since butchering), raw port in Germany.
In germany, Pork is actually checked for parasites to ensure that this does not happen.
Other types of meat are not checked as intensely.
This is also why you should not eat raw pork outside of germany, and even in Germany, you should only eat it when it is sold as Mett. (Or, better yet, don't eat the disgusting meat paste. I am german and have never tried it.)
German food safety is pretty decent, unless you buy your Mett at a butcher you can be certain the meat is ok.
All the meat gets screened very thoroughly for all kinds of diseases and parasites.
It is so good that there are about 10 cases of trichinella infection in Germany in a year and most of them are "imported" meaning the parasites got ingested outside of Germany.
The other "big" source of infection is consumption of unscreened meat, for example from private hunters or smuggled meat.
Infection from Mett is totally unheard of, if there are cases of sickness after consumption that would be when the product was not handled correctly, for example not stored properly or too long and most of the time it is consumer error if that happens.
Sushi is different because it has been snapfrozen. Sushi from fresh fish is pretty rare in some cities close to the ocean but certainly not in Germany.
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u/el_bentse 6h ago
I'm German and have never even tried it, kinda disgusting. Dibs sushi in soy sauce