Mett

It consists of minced pork meat, generally seasoned with salt and black pepper, regionally also with garlic or caraway, and eaten raw.

[3][4] To serve it, a large amount of mett is shaped as a hedgehog, quartered onion rings or pretzel sticks are used as spikes, olives as eyes and nose.

In southern Brazil, influenced by German immigrants, it is known as Hackepeter or carne de Onça in Curitiba where this dish is very common and served covered with chives.

[6] In Wisconsin, the "cannibal sandwich" or "wildcat" (seasoned raw beef and sliced onions on rye bread) is sometimes consumed during holidays or family gatherings.

Midwest historians typically agree that the continuing culinary practice is a result of 19th century German immigration to the area.