A story out of Wisconsin has been circulating this week in the national media, with the attention-grabbing headline that screams something like, Health Officials Urge Residents to Stop Eating Cannibal Sandwiches. Here is the NBC News version of the story, which dramatizes the apparently popular midwest, ground beef dish even further by claiming these cannibal sandwiches are also known as tiger meat.
Ok, back up the bus for a second. Once you get past the nauseating headline, you realize there is nothing cannibalistic or tigerish about what is more commonly known as beef tartar. Thought to originate in Scandinavia or eastern Europe, the Wisconsin Historical Society describes the dish as,