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 don’t 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.
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u/rolln_the_dice_twice 7h ago
I am German and it's disgusting. I would never eat raw meat. But most of the people I know loving it.