Posted on 12/13/2020 8:41:12 PM PST by BenLurkin
The Wisconsin Historical Society's website notes the "Cannibal Sandwich" consists of raw, lean ground beef served on bread (especially rye cocktail bread) with sliced onions, salt and pepper.
It's also known as "tiger meat," "steak tartare," or simply, "raw beef and onions."
According to the Wisconsin Historical Society, these sandwiches have traditionally been served at holiday parties and other festive gatherings in the Milwaukee area. Milwaukee historian, John Gurda, who served it at his 1977 wedding reception, told FOX News in 2013 the sandwiches have been a festive dish in German, Polish and other ethnic communities in the Milwaukee area since the 19th century, adding it was once common to see them at wedding receptions, meals following funerals and Christmas and New Year's Eve parties.
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See my Post #40.
It is in Milwaukee...at least it was when I attended university there in 1982-86. I didn’t think it was very tasty to be honest.
“This was popular for breakfast when I lived in Germany during the 1990s.”
I was in Germany in 1981 for a REFORGER* Mission, and I will attest that having a local German Breakfast was the highlight of the day - which usually went downhill rapidly after that, LOL!
Look out for the wild hogs and enjoy your stay in an unheated, abandoned sawmill that you will share with a Panzer Tank Division. BUT there WILL be Porta-Potties (such LUXURY!) only because it’s February and the ground is frozen solid, so no latrine digging. ;)
The things I did for a paycheck back then, LOL!
*REturn the FORces to GERmany
“A Jeffrey Dahmer favorite?”
LOL! Whenever we have an inmate killed while in prison, it is refered to as being, ‘Dahmerized.’
“Hey! Did you hear that Big Joe got ‘Dahmerized’ last night? Yeah. That’s a shame...”
We don’t lose many - prisons are Big Business in Wisconsin. Lots of remote places to stash the Bad Guys (and gals!)
Do you know the infamous ‘Bambi’ Bembeneck tale?
Lawrencia Ann “Bambi” Bembenek (August 15, 1958 – November 20, 2010), known as Laurie Bembenek, was an American former police officer convicted of murdering her husband’s ex-wife. Her story garnered national attention after she escaped from Taycheedah Correctional Institution and was recaptured in Canada, an episode that inspired books, movies and the slogan “Run, Bambi, Run”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Bembenek
It has the things I like - raw beef, raw onions, bread (toasted for this type sandwich) and add some mustard and I’m in hog Heaven.
If the beef isn’t available, the raw onions on toast with mustard works too.
Wisconsin?
How about Bloomfield, NJ in the mid-late 1950’s?
On Saturdays,my Mom and Grandmother would do their shopping downtown (at the butcher, the baker, the grocer for fruits and vegetables, etc.), then come home with some of the most gorgeous ground beef and incredible hard rolls - crunchy on the outside w/ poppy seeds, and soft and chewy on the inside.
My Grandfather would stuff the roll with ground beef, add some salt, and we’d have a cannibal sandwich.
I can paint a picture of those Saturdays, and tears come to my eyes when I remember the sound of their voices and the aromas from that kitchen over 60 years ago.
So DHS, or whatever agency was created to make my life miserable, go screw yourselves.
Yes!
I remember now—it was raw ground PORK!
I asked about Trichinosis, but was assured German pigs had no such diseases.
My friend Olaf's mom made it, and it was good.
Department of Homeland Security thinks they are the FDA now.
Is this an anti-immigrant thing? Why is DHS involved? They don’t defend our borders or even squash domestic terrorist cells.
One of my favorite apocalyptical novels, actually written in the 50's. Pretty good, and fairly accurate, I've always thought, to what it would look like if (when?) it happened.
One of the principle characters (Randy) had a penchant for cannibal sandwiches...
Hey, Todendorf! I remember being on the beach at Schönberger Strand as a kid in the 60s...boom, boom, boom, boom, the flak carried over. Pause. Boom, boom, boom, boom. And the plane flying by hauling the target sack.
Thanks, yep we used to have local butchers and milk, eggs from small farms or raised them ourselves. Those days are long gone though sadly
Some such as myself also know it as being made from finely ground raw beef on rye bread with salt, pepper and chopped onions.
My preference was always for beef Hackepeter, though I did eat my fair share of the finely ground minced pork version.
not nearly as bad as lutefisk-
Usually made with good chuck steak.
chuck steak does have a lot of flavor- and if chopped fine enough, to a mush, will be very edible- just gotta take out the tougher stringy connective tissue if possible- I wonder if throwing a bit of ribeye into the mix too- lots of flavor there too-
Bon appetit!
Can be liberally garnished with sauerkraut.
Not for us. Our favorite store is a 20 mile drive, it is a family run store that sells local produce. Well worth the drive. They rent part of their property for a farmers market and sell some produce on consignment. Down the road from them is a year around farmers/crafts market that has a coffee shop in an old shed, a wine & beer bar built into a bus and a local seafood restaurant maintains a food truck that has excellent fresh seafood. They also have crafts and other product.
The store sells meats raised on local farms and butchers locally, eggs are farm raised and even the butter is homemade maintain butter. Fresh local veggies, honey etc... It is always busy. Like back in the day, somethings are not available year around.
We need more of these mom and pop stores. The apples are not as perfect and the tomatoes not as red, but they taste good. The eggs are not uniform in size but they taste better then processed eggs. There is a market for fresh food grown the old fashion way. I wish more towns would do this and start pushing back against the big chain stores.
[[We need more of these mom and pop stores.]]
Agree 100%. We do have ‘farmer’s markets’ for fresh veggies in summer- but nothing near us for good butchered local meats- Had some excellent corn though most of the summer- people from all over were snapping it up- unfortunately where we are, people from cities escaped to for the summer to avoid the city virus lockdowns, so gettign the corn was spotty- usually they had enough, but not always- hopefully next summer htere won’t be as many citidwellers in our town and we can get it more often- sure was good stuff-
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