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Originally Posted by cranks
I can order raw eggs at my local Japanese restaurant. When I do, I hide it from American guys like I'm smoking something funny. It's true it can be slightly dangerous though. The shell sometimes has salmonella. But in 17 years living in the states and the UK, I had hundreds of raw eggs , and never had a single incident of food poisoning, so I deem it fairly safe. People thought the Japanese were crazy to eat raw fish with rotten soy bean sauce, i.e. Sushi, just 20 years ago. May be raw eggs will be "in" in 10 years... umm... actually, probably not.
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They may be breaking the law. I know a Japanese restaurant here in Portland that got a fined for serving raw fish that hadn't been frozen at least once. That's the law here: raw fish must be frozen at some point. We are 30 something miles from the Pacific Ocean, but that doesn't matter.
There are places here where you can get raw egg and fresh raw fish, but they don't put that on the neon signs.