Fleischbutter

Fleischbutter (meat butter) is a combination of ground meat, butter, and spices, used as a spread. Fleischbutter is a regional specialty in parts of south and west Germany, and either unknown or considered borderline perverse in the north and east. The most common form of fleischbutter is made with ground pork; variants use beef, lamb, kidney, tripe, and other muscle and organ meats. Spices also vary considerably, though the most popular combination is salt, black pepper, and ground peppercorn. Other variations may even include fruit, such as crushed cranberries or orange rind, though this is considered to be quite gourmet and therefore rare.

A restaurant's breakfast spread might include three or four selections of fleischbutter in small containers, along with containers of butter and jam and chocolate-spread. In certain southern German towns, connoisseurs of fleischbutter prefer to alternate bites of bread smeared with various makes of fleischbutter with bites of bread smeared with jam or chocolate. The sharp sweet taste cleanses the palate for the generally salty, meaty, fatty fleischbutter.