The Cannibal Sandwich.
The Cannibal sandwich is a sandwich of very fresh raw ground or minced beef and your favorite fixin’s. An amazing sandwich not intended for the inherently weak or easily squeamish. This sandwich tests not only your meat quality, but the strength of your gut bacterium. Now don’t let the word cannibal (a person who eats the flesh of other humans) scare you away so quickly. The way cannibal is used in the title of this sandwich; is to make the consumer aware of the fact that the beef between their bread is completely raw, and that there are risks to devouring this delicious masterpiece. This sandwich is a popular delicacy in Wisconsin generally served at weddings and football parties. Over the past forty years or so, only a few times has there been any kind of out breaks of meat born illness of sorts. They are localized to just a single shop that didn’t handle the meat properly, and got some unfortunate people sick. Restaurants used to serve smaller cannibal sandwiches, more like sliders, on the regular. With employee values and pride ever decreasing, many companies have chosen that the risk of hurting a patron out weighs the value of the sandwich sale. Insurance companies frown on raw beef even with consumer warning labels. With the CDC warning of all the bad things that could happen to a person who consumes raw beef, there has been a movement away from eating raw and under cooked foods. I don’t disagree with the government when it comes to a person being cautious with their health. If you ever choose to live on the edge or just want to enjoy a more Paleolithic diet, you must know your butcher, and where your meet comes from. I would go as far as to say you really should invest in your very own meat grinder that is easily disassembled and cleaned. Go to your favorite butcher and ask about the fresher meat selections and pick a cut of meat that you like the look of. Take that cut home and while it is still cold rinse is very thoroughly with cool water so you don’t heat the meat’s temperature to much. Pat it dry and begin to grind; I believe this would and will reduce most all of the risk you take while enjoying this delicacy. If this is going to be just a one time thing, maybe first find a well known butcher in your area and find out when meat deliveries are and how fresh and lean can he get your meat. If you explain what your plans are to the butcher; there is a better chance that he will use caution with your beef, and your chances of getting sick from a food bourn illness will go down. Still with the freshly ground beef make sure it is eaten as quickly as possible with out ruining your experience. So don’t drive an hour to the butcher, try to keep it to a five minute radius as to preserve the meats exposure to risk. There are many recipes online on how to make the actual sandwich but not many go into detail on how to handle the meat up to the consumption. I hope the above helps a little with prepping.
Now my sandwich was kept simple and boy was it tasty.
-6oz fresh ground beef
-2 pieces sour dough bread
-Sliced smoked cheese
-Spicy mustard to taste
-Black pepper to taste
-Salt to taste
My first bite was a bit of a shock to my mouth. Why? Because of a life time of being told that if I ate raw meat I would die a horrible and painful death. As my teeth sank into the aromatic sour dough bread, I could feel its fluffiness resist only ever so slightly. My teeth cut through the bread and began their decent into the raw meat and smoked cheese; this is where my scenes started screaming “this shit is to soft, spit it out now!” I continued my bite until a good chunk of raw meat, cheese and bread rested on my tongue. I started to chew and if you look just right at my facial expressions in the video, you will see what looks like a sign of relief, joy, pleasure, or just a plain happy look. That was because once I started the mastication process my body was relieved that I wasn’t going to puke. By the time I swallowed the first bite I was ready for more. I finished the sandwich of camera and really enjoyed every bite.
Some people like raw onions on theirs, and I will be trying it that way soon. I will most likely mince the onion and mix into the meat so that it is evenly distributed.
The first time I ate the infamous Cannibal Sandwich, I felt great the next few day; I was energetic and felt motivated to do more than was usual for me. That feeling gave way to a lasting motivation even after the meat and its benefits cleared my system. My bowel movements where something that stirred up some “What have I done thoughts” I am regular to about twice a day depending on how much I eat and drink from sun up to sun down and about the three movements after the meat started leaving my body there was noticeable difference in color, texture and mostly smell. The color was much more pale than usual and the texture not as “clumped rabbit” looking; the stench was most comparable to three day old road kill found on a Pasco county road in the middle of August. I know this is a bit much for most, but if you are new to this you should know a little of what to expect on top of what the CDC tells you. Now if you can already clear a house there may be no difference for you, I eat a lot of greens and food doesn’t stay with me long. I think that helps with the stank of it all.
A few months after making the video, I had another smaller Cannibal Sandwich and then after that I enjoyed a taco with raw beef and the normal toppings for that dish. Since then I have expanded my raw diet to enjoying raw fish. (I hated all fish until a friend convinced me that I was truly missing out on a great thing.) Raw fish isn’t as hard on the system as beef and the bathroom trips aren’t so toxic smelling.
I say try it once at least, but make sure you know who you are getting your meat from.
Enjoy
Interviewing
This will be a quick post, I believe, about my time interviewing potential new employees. The store that I work at has a very low turn over rate, for very good reasons, and we don’t interview often, so every time Viktor and I have to send out a detailed add looking for a new person it is always a challenge to pick the best person who will fit best with our awesome team. I used to use Craig’s list to find candidates, but always ended up only getting just a small handful of responses and having to choose from groups of less than ten made it really hard to be sure this was the person we were looking for. While looking for a new wine purchaser I came across Indeed and though I have used it to seek out better employment I had never thought about posting on their site. I signed the store up and had a good response fairly quickly, and we ended up getting someone shortly after the post went up. I didn’t handle the wine purchaser interviews; the boss was looking for someone very specific and wanted to be the one who controlled this important choice. We recently developed a need for a new stock guy and this time I skipped Craig’s list and went straight to Indeed to post my job add for the position. I got a flood of people the first night and was thinking this will be quick and easy. I posted the job on a Monday and didn’t work again until Sunday: so I just let the applications pile up and didn’t pay any attention to how many responses were coming into my email (applications and responses are the same thing). Sunday came around and when I opened up my indeed profile to see what I had accomplished, I was taken back by the over 200 applications. Now not all of these were great applications, I had to weed out the ones that were out of sate or from towns that were just too far to drive if we needed someone to come right in. The next disqualified were people who wrote all in lower case on their resume, yes that happens. After the lower case resumes were gone I started reading resumes and got rid of all the ones that had text abbreviations instead of using actual words. I was shocked at how many people were not aware that someone would actually be looking at what they had written. Okay so now I am down from over 200 resumes to just over thirty people that I am going to call to come in and give it their best. I could not believe how many people where eliminated just from bad resumes, because there weren’t many people from out of state applying for the position. Now to calling in people: as long as they answered their phone, they got an interview. I did make notes on how the person spoke on the phone and what their interest level sounded like. I did put
x’s on about four people who I knew would not be good for the team. Well only one of the four even showed up for an interview and he didn’t do to hot. I emailed him later to let him know that he would not be getting a job with us and he told me he was happy because we were "all ass holes there". Seeing that made me smile because some how it solidified my feelings, and being called names has never really bothered me since name calling is generally a way of projecting one own insecurities on to others. My interviews were broken down into three days at seven people a day for fifteen minutes each. Viktor generally doesn’t get to see the resumes until I seat the person we are going to interview. I ask them to tell us a little bit about themselves while Viktor looks over their resume. I remember in school hearing this would be the first and most important question you would get in an interview. This question should be answered in a careful manner as to not disclose to mush personal information but plenty of professional details with out sounding narcissistic. Some of the stories and answers were so overwhelming that I actually had anxiety for the person; so much so that I wanted to jump up in the middle of the interview and just tell them no way in hell were they getting a job with use and if they ever wanted a job any where, the should never speak about things that don’t concern work or work ethic. Some of what I heard is as follows.
Tell me a little about yourself.
"Well I had a great weekend. My son in-law just got married and we found out my father in-law has stage three stomach cancer. Do you know how long this is going to take? I’m just wondering. I haven’t had a job since 2008 and I don’t know why. Oh yeah in 2008 my sister died and my mom died and I had a mental break down and didn’t leave the house for a while but I am all better now."
This guy came to the interview in a long sleeve undershirt all high strung and jittery. He rambled on about his family and how hard it has been for him, at this point that I was ready to just get up and walk away. I feel bad for the guy but holy crap; don’t tell people stuff like that. I am a complete stranger and you are telling me that you have had a hard knock life and that you went crazy but would still like a job. If you ever go crazy and get better, don’t tell anyone. That was the worst of the answers I would elaborate more but just writing this little bit makes me want to call the guy and tell him he needs some interview training and maybe some psychological help still.
Other people we asked about criminal history and though they were vague (as I would be) they did hint to their past. I can get past most things as long as it has been a while and you present yourself well.
I was shocked that out of the 21 people we talked to only four were coming back for a second interview. We eliminated people who were not dressed for an interview, asked questions about our security system (yes, someone wanted to know about our camera system during the interview), and people who we and they knew they could not lift a keg of beer (this is a requirement for employment).
I will be glad when this is over and don’t have to worry about listening to people’s terrible lives and job searching. I would love to give them all a job just so they weren’t with out but when it comes down to what is best for the business and the customers; some decisions that seem the hardest are the best for everyone.
Now I am in no way an expert in interviewing people, but if you are reading this and are looking for a job. DONT tell people your business, especially if it is full of negativity. Make sure your resume is written in a manner that would show that you put effort into your work. Dress and groom yourself in a manner that would make your grandmother proud. And please don’t smell bad or ask how long this is going to take.
Michael Trump
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