It’s not clear how many Wisconsinites observe a holiday tradition of eating raw meat, but Dr. Murano said that the warnings applied well beyond the state. The steak tartare found in high-end restaurants around the world is similarly unsafe, she said, as is Italy’s carpaccio (thinly sliced raw beef), Amsterdam’s ossenworst (raw beef, traditionally smoked) and Germany’s zwiebelmett (minced raw pork with onion). Ms. Altschwager likened cannibal sandwiches to lutefisk, dried cod that is reconstituted with lye, a tradition among some Scandinavian-Americans. Cannibal sandwiches are an expression of that same kind of thing. (Wisconsin’s health agency also warned residents not to eat raw dough, or cookie or cake batter.)

Source: New York Times December 18, 2020 16:07 UTC