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Mettbrötchen is a signature dish of Germany; we have verified places to eat it in Cologne and Hamburg. Raw minced pork (Mett) seasoned with salt, pepper and onion, spread onto a fresh Brötchen.
Raw minced pork (Mett) seasoned with salt, pepper and onion, spread onto a fresh Brötchen. A German raw-meat tradition consumed daily at every bakery and market.
Mett is German lean minced pork, traditionally from the shoulder, served raw on bread as Mettbrötchen. The tradition is centuries old in northern and western Germany; food-safety regulations require Mett to be ground and sold the same day. Cologne's Wochenmarkt stalls and Bäckereien like Backerei Zimmermann and Bastians serve it from early morning. The most common breakfast or second-breakfast order at any Cologne market.
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Where to eat Mettbrötchen in Cologne: the editor picks
Raw seasoned ground pork (Mett) piled on a sliced Brötchen with rings of raw white onion and a turn of black pepper. The North German butcher-counter snack, eaten at room temperature.
Mett (raw seasoned pork) has been a German butcher's staple since at least the 18th century, regulated under modern food law: the pork must be processed and chilled the same day, and contains less than 35 percent fat. The Mettbrötchen is a Northern German butcher-counter and bakery snack rather than a Hamburg-specific dish, but Hamburg butcher counters and St Pauli Imbiss windows serve it the same way; Erika's Eck in the entertainment district is the cult late-night Mett stop.
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Where to eat Mettbrötchen in Hamburg: the editor picks
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