A London commuter revealed the stomach-turning moment she spotted a fellow passenger tucking into a pack of raw beef mince during their train journey.
In a picture posted to Reddit, a man is seen holding the chunk of meat in one hand while flicking through his mobile with the other, all while perched nonchalantly on his seat resting a bare foot. Surrounded by Waitrose and Argos shopping bags, another bloke is sat right next to him – who allegedly coaxed by the meat-muncher to dig into the raw mince too.
Sharing her gruesome encounter under the Weird subreddit, the baffled woman wrote: “This man is eating raw mince beef on the overground and trying to get the guy next to him to take a bite.”
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Adding more grotesque details, she continued: “The dude was getting into a conversation with the suit guy, asking him to take bites and talking about eating raw meat and s***, and the suit guy was just entertaining all of it. He didn’t take a bite, the meat dude asked like four times though.”
The shocking event drew disgusted reactions from other Reddit users, with one writing: “I want to know the lore these types of people have. What was his upbringing like to do stuff and act like this in a public place. Eat all the raw beef you want in the privacy of your own home but on the train?”
Another took aim at food safety, blasting: “Eating raw meat is one thing, but minced is literally the worst sort of meat you could eat raw. The entire thing has been exposed to potential foodborne microorganisms, inside and out and all mixed in with it.”
Whilst a third blasted: “What an appalling way to behave for a grown man. And look at the way he’s sat. The diva bs in London gets so tiresome.”
Others, however, suggested the odd eating habit is pretty standard elsewhere. An American Redditor chimed in, saying: “You can purchase Raw Beef and Onions served on rye bread at Joey Gerrard’s for $14.95 in Greenfield, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee. It’s really very good and the only time I eat raw onions, and raw beef for that matter.”
A second added: “I know lots of people of French Canadian origin eat Steak Tartare… which is basically spiced raw minced beef with a raw egg on it.” A third quipped: “In Germany this title would just be a normal thing lol.”
And a fourth shared: “In Chile it’s become very popular in the last 10 years, in my opinion mostly with middle to upper middle class who want to appear cultured. They say it’s cooked in the lemon like cerviche, I think they are morons eating raw meat from another mammal.”
But heads up, the NHS warns that scoffing raw meat might land you with toxoplasmosis – not just a dodgy tummy but confusion, blurred vision, slurred speech, and unsteady walking too. So maybe think twice before you tuck in!
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