Originally Posted by Ganjasaurus

You can eat raw beef. Not a whole lot, but it's very common.

Steak tartar (a la tartare) can be found in a small number of fine restaurants where this delicatessy is served table side. It consists of raw fillet of beef. The meat is chopped in the kitchen with a knife. And, at restaurants where they have trained wait staff, the Steak Tartar leaves the kitchen unprepared on a platter. Surrounded by the greens of butter lettuce the meat takes up the middle of the plate. The fresh-red, fine-chopped fillet is topped with a whole raw egg yolk. Individual small cups filled with chopped onions, pickles and capers are sitting to be used on the greens next to the meat. Additional condiments are set up on a separate tray. There are mustard, virgin olive oil, Worcestershire sauce, cayenne and regular pepper.