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I agree, that’s bonkers. Rare ground meat? Bleh
Completely uncooked ground meat is a local specialty here that I love and I still wouldn't want to eat a "rare" burger. Part of it is trust (when you buy from a local butcher you can be quite sure that it's safe), but that specific mix of almost uncooked, cooked and fried parts sounds so unsavory.
Oddly enough we have something similar which is mostly beef, that is called Filet Américain
Beef tartare is minced similarly and it's pretty good, though the beef used in burgers are probably not good enough to be eaten like that
Beef tartare is chopped from a single cut, not made from pre-ground. The likelihood of food-borne illness is considerably less in beef tartare, as I understand things.
Yes, my understanding is that it's not about the cuts used. It's not so much that ground beef is typically just any leftover bits, but it's mostly a manner of prep. Tartare is prepared on the spot, the day of. This gives it a super short shelf life, but makes it fresh enough to be eaten raw, since bacteria hasn't had time to grow. Ground beef is prepped on an industrial scale and packaged for long enough that surface bacteria gets thoroughly mixed into the meat and given enough time to reproduce