Real men eat it on the hoof.
The above quote is from a late friend of my father’s. He said it every time he cooked a steak, and though I thought he meant a cow, he always ate his beef medium rare… Ah, the 1970s. I was so young and innocent.
I had a friend of my own, of German heritage, who enjoyed eating raw hamburger meat with spices mixed into it. When I was in Japan, I was given a raw egg to mix with some kind of powder, to pour on my rice for breakfast. I left the egg in its shell. Why? Because here in North America we’re told to cook our food, and if, God forbid, we come in contact with it when it’s raw, DISINFECT! That stuff’s poison! Except there are so many people who survive other cultures.
A few months back, someone died because they ate raw salmon here in Ontario. Yet I love–I luuuuurve salmon sushi. So what’s the diff? Seriously, maybe someone out there can tell me. My best guesses are that they serve fresher meat (and eggs) in other countries, or that they’re more careful to keep their products at a safe temperature.
I’ve eaten raw bacon and survived. I’ve licked the cake-batter bowl clean. And don’t even get me started on cookie dough. Ugh! Nomnomnom.
What do you eat raw?
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April 27, 2017 at 1:29 am
I agree with the raw potatoes. I wash and peel them and salt them. If we have no apples for that wonderful crunch, I will grab the nearest potato!
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April 27, 2017 at 9:26 pm
Cool! 😀 Thanks for the tip, Dar!
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April 23, 2017 at 3:18 pm
I used to love licking the spoon when my mum made a cake and scraping the bowl!
As for meat, I have to have it very well done. I did once have raw kofte kebab without realising, but funnily enoughwas sick all night!
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April 25, 2017 at 10:13 pm
That’s the best part of mums making cakes! 😀 Sorry to hear the kebab made you sick. I don’t know what I’d do if I couldn’t eat my medium rare steak!
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April 26, 2017 at 11:06 am
HA! I am a delicate flower!!! 🌼🌼🤣🤣🤣🤣
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April 22, 2017 at 9:19 pm
I like beef pretty rare, although I won’t order a burger anything less than well done unless I know the restaurant grinds its own. I could write a whole post about food preservation and safety, but petty people would be controversial. Yes, other places have much fresher, therefore safer, perishable foods.
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April 22, 2017 at 10:06 pm
Good to know, thanks, Joey. 🙂 I’m still not sure I’ll ever be brave enough to try fugu (puffer fish) though. 😛
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April 22, 2017 at 10:09 pm
I wouldn’t. Huh uh.
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April 22, 2017 at 8:58 pm
Raw bacon?🤔
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April 22, 2017 at 10:07 pm
Yeah, call me weird. Not a lot of it, mind you. Just a nibble.
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April 22, 2017 at 10:17 pm
I’m always going to look at you a little bit differently now…
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April 22, 2017 at 10:19 pm
Hehehe. …wait, that’s a good thing, right?
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April 22, 2017 at 10:20 pm
🤔
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April 22, 2017 at 10:22 pm
❤
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April 22, 2017 at 10:23 pm
😊
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April 22, 2017 at 4:10 pm
Great post!! And now I know how to write “Nomnomnom.” in English…I love cake batter, cookie dough, pie dough and when the heck did they start writing on packaged cake mixes to NOT eat the leftover batter…Hello! that is the bonus for waiting for it to rise in the oven…lick, slurp, wait…and repeat until baked.
I learned very very young to eat lean ground steak raw with salt or spices. I love the taste until my mom had a health problem when I turned 6…Learned that she ate too much. So for a kid who loves it and watches GrandMaman still eating a tiny bit when cooking a meal…I would as well, wondering in my mind. “How many teaspoons equals to “too much”? I also love raw potatoes…still do. My aunt would say it was bad for me but why are raw potatoes bad and raw carrots,beans etc ok?
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April 22, 2017 at 10:22 pm
Raw potatoes? I’ve never tried that. I can’t imagine they’d be bad for you unless you didn’t chew them enough. 😛 And there’s a warning on cake mix now? Thanks… I’ll know not to read the package. 😉 😀
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April 22, 2017 at 10:40 pm
My aunt used to say it gave you tape worms…I think she was mistaken for raw meat but you did NOT argue with an adult then. The potatoes have to be fresh though…not those old wrinkly ones …I liked it with nothing but some like it with salt.
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April 22, 2017 at 11:01 pm
I’ll have to try it next time I buy potatoes. Thanks for the suggestion, Cheryl-Lynn. 🙂
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April 22, 2017 at 7:58 am
I love sponge mix ….. yum!
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April 22, 2017 at 7:36 am
Cake batter and cookie dough are food groups.
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April 22, 2017 at 6:27 am
I love love love vanilla cake batter. Beats pudding any old day.
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April 22, 2017 at 6:26 am
I like cookie dough and cake batter better raw than baked. And raw peanuts.
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April 22, 2017 at 3:09 am
I get your fear… I India everything is cooked to death lol! No medium or medium rare hrrr. Forget rare or, God forbid, blue!!!!
No… I can’t even do sushi!!!
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