Report: Cambodians Resort to Eating Rats

[DuctapeFatwa]

Fear of catching bird flu from eating chicken has prompted some people in northwest Cambodia to resort to eating rats, a newspaper reported Tuesday.

Rats have been fetching good prices in Battambang province during the last two weeks, according to Rasmei Kampuchea, or the Light of Cambodia.

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20040217_1790.html

[mmm]

1. strawberry rat cobler is good for you

fresh squeezed rat juice is very nice as well

[Stupdworld]

2. i dont know how

but im sure bush is to blame for this.

[w4rma]

6. LMAO! I don't see anything obvious, yet. (n/t)

[mike1963]

3. Odd how people think that's so icky...we eat other rodents, rabbits, squir

rels...
;-)

[Whoa_Nelly]

4. Is bubonic plague next on list?

eom

[johnfunk]

5. Has anyone translated "Cooking with G. Gordon Liddy" into Cambodian?

His easy-to-make apple pan ratty recipe is to die for...

[PartyPooper]

7. I can only hope that a certain DU'er stays out of Cambodia.

:9

[R Hickey]

8. The mouthwatering goodness of bats-in-a-blanket

can only be surpassed by a bucket of batter-fried bat-wings.

[0007]

9. Batter fried Bat breast makes also a nice appetizer just

before the main course of Roasted Rattus with Squealer Salad and Rat cheese blended with ratatouille.

Yummy yummy! I'm salivating all over my keyboard.

[Blue_Tires]

10. rat soup??

[the_red_pill]

11. 130 lbs of Rats

How many of the little fellas = 130lbs?!?!? I can't imagine them having much more than a pound of meat, anyone got a link to some pictures? Reminds me of the documentary Dark Days ^^

[fortyfeetunder]

13. These are good sized rats

From what my friends in Asia said, they can get up to the size of a small cat.

[fortyfeetunder]

12. Rats and rabbits

A rat ain't nuttin but a rabbit with docked ears and a long skinny tail. That will put it into perspective.

If you like rabbit meat, then no problem eating a rat. Heard it cooks and tastes like chicken anyway...

[SoCalDem]

14. People eat these in Central & south America

They get up to 140 lbs

[the_red_pill]

15. Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris

those are capybara, yeah I can see that there would be a lot of meat on one of them. But I mean after you skin and gut a rat, I just don't see there being much meat on a rat.

[SoCalDem]

16. It grossed me out that the natives ate them

I thought they were so cute.. They eat tapirs too :(

[anarchy1999]

17. When it happens here in the US, we have our own rats,

Louisiana style.

Courtesy of our very own and what we may be forced to eat next. Lovely little creature, NOT!

http://www.tabasco.com/html/historian_co_history.html

TABASCO® brand products are produced by McIlhenny Company, founded in 1868 at Avery Island, Louisiana, and still in operation on that very site today.

The Company's roots were actually cultivated a few years earlier, shortly after the McIlhenny family returned to the Island from self-imposed exile during the Civil War. According to family tradition, founder Edmund McIlhenny obtained some hot pepper seeds from a traveler who had recently arrived in Louisiana from Central America. McIlhenny planted them on Avery Island, and th
en experimented with pepper sauces until he hit upon one he liked.


http://www.flex.net/~lonestar/nutria.htm

Originally from South America, Nutria were imported from Argentina to Louisiana in 1938. They were brought in by Tabasco tycoon E. A. McIlhenny who maintained them in a fenced enclosure on his Avery Island estate in southern Louisiana. However, in 1941, rising waters from a gulf coast hurricane enabled the nutria to swim out of their compound. Feeding on the abundant plant life in the Louisiana swamps and waterways, they quickly reproduced. They have since spread to many southern states, including Texas. The Woodlands Nutria are believed to have descended from McIllhenny's original imports.

Just check it out, a real eco-disaster. Make your own conclusions.
I don't like mine.

[BiggJawn]

18. Isn't this like saying "Parisians eat Snails"

People "over there" eat things people "over here" wouldn't be in the same yard with....

[blindpig]

19. there's probably not much left

in the way of game(bushmeat)as the Chinese are importing nearly anything that walks, flies or crawls from SE Asia for their food and so called medicine. These are luxury items and a direct result of the money pouring into China from gobalization. Turtles are especially esteemed, some species from China only decribed by science in the 80's are now likely extinct and Se Asia, one of the world centers of turtle diversity is getting hammered very hard. Indeed, tens of thousands of turtles were exported from NC last year and SC closed export in response to this threat.