Why Do We Eat Raw Fish But Not Raw Chicken?

We might order fish raw, but why don't we ever order chicken that way?

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[Master_Therion]

So, raw chicken can have salmonella, but raw salmon can't have chickenella.

[kondzior]

Fun fact: some Japanese restaurants actually offer chicken sashimi! Those chickens are specifically bred and prepared in a way that minimizes the risk of contracting salmonella from them. I was intrigued by that, but didn't try it in the end, which I kinda regret now.

[AndrewHaddow]

I live in Japan and chicken sashimi and tataki (lightly blowtorched but still very raw) is definitely a think here. I only eat it in Miyazaki prefecture, a place well known here for having ridiculously high quality free range chickens.

[Chemeee]

Because in minecraft raw chicken poisons you and raw fish doesn't

[BlankPicketSign]

Sounds like a fantastic insult
"Go have yourself some Pork Tartare"

[aka_pcfx]

As a german I apreciate my ocasional "Mettbrötchen" wich is raw, ground pork with onion in a bread roll. sounds disgusting but sometimes that is exactly what you need...

[alphadawgxx]

So, is the reason that countries like Japan eat raw chicken because their animals aren't kept in the same conditions that american animals are kept in, or does the isolation of being on an island mean they haven't been exposed to bacteria like e coli? I know there's raw beef, chicken, and even horse meat in japan and it's fairly common but food poisoning isn't common at all

[TheJapanChannelDcom]

Except... we DO eat raw chicken in Japan.
The meat preparation and testing standards are higher here.

[DustinRodriguez_]

Hmmm. When you said that trichonella create cysts in pork, it reminded me of something. My family makes their own sausage occasionally. Now we always get the meat from a butcher, but when my dad was a kid they used to do it starting with just a pig. One of the things they had to do after butchering it was go through the meat and cut out things which looked like cysts. I'm wondering if possibly those were from trichonella... No one ever got sick from the sausage, and for a few decades one of my great aunts had a restaurant that sold the sausage to their customers so they were well practiced at it back then (we only make it about once a year nowadays).

[adriennelong]

Thank you for telling everyone not to eat their ground beef rare, in Canada we cook our burgers all the way through every time but I keep hearing stories from friends who go down to the states and upon ordering a burger they get asked how well done they want it cooked! What? Who thought that was okay?

[Urbaaniapina]

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[daubert]

Raw duck tartar is definitely a thing in France, and it's quite safe!

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[klaasbarends]

yukhae is a delicious Korean raw meat (beef) dish

[miriamrosemary]

Very informative! I was really curious and confused about this. Thank you very much!

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[markzeddo]

I had sashimi made from chicken tenders (called "sasami") in an izakaya in Nagoya. They were seared outside, sliced thin, and you dipped them in ponzu. They were so good!

[alexhansen]

But why do people even want to eat raw meat?