raw as in unpasteurized?

there's a reason it's difficult to get your hands on, you can get food poisoning from it.

Well it is unusual but the main producer for this part of Sweden made a batch.
It was quite good and almost tasted like smoked cheese.

as easily as raw eggs and yet you can easily buy raw eggs from virtually any grocery store. the reasons for it are pretty awkward and speaks more about the poor hygiene in production

mm, smoked cheese is good.

as long as it's actually smoked. Sometimes so-called "smoked" cheese here is just cheese with smoke flavoring added, and smoke flavoring is pretty gross.

well, you can obtain raw eggs so easily because usually people are expected to cook their eggs before using them. It's not so easy for people to pasteurize their own milk, and most people drink or use it directly from the carton rather than using it for cooking.

ugh, smoke flavor is icky

actually quite a few recipes require eggs to be raw when consumed

I can only think of a few. Egg nog comes to mind.

regardless, my point was that it's a lot easier for the average consumer to fully cook a raw egg than to pasteurize raw milk.

There is a french thing with raw minced meat and raw egg
And some people just like raw eggs for some reason.

coddled eggs, soft-boiled eggs, pasta carbonara, mousse, bearnaise sauce, tiramisu, meringue, mayonnaise to say a few

Home made mayonnaise can be so yummy!

yes, I know you can eat raw eggs. >.<

I'm really not sure why you'd take the risk, not to mention that it just sounds gross anyway.

but I'm just talking about availability; it's easy to cook an egg, but the difficulty of making milk safe to drink makes it much more difficult to get your hands on raw milk.

raw milk is about as safe as raw eggs. it's a media thing x______x personally i have nothing against either though i minimize my consumption of raw eggs, though, when i make cookies my motherinlaw and fiance both like to eat a bit of the batter

Take that risk? what risk?

the risk of food poisoning from raw eggs.

Why would you get that?