• bstix@feddit.dk
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    11 months ago

    Not OP, but yes. Japan doesn’t have salmonella issues, so they put raw egg on everything.

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      11 months ago

      Japan absolutely has historically had salmonella issues, but they’ve done incredible work in the last thirty years, bringing their rate down by a lot. I don’t know how if the use of raw egg was rare when the salmonella rates were much higher though.

      Consumption of turtle meat and chicken sashimi also plays a role in salmonella cases in Japan, but those foods are less common worldwide.

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        11 months ago

        Turtle meat and chicken sashimi aren’t very common in Japan either. You wouldn’t pick an izakaya at random and expect either of those on the menu