You Thought I Was Kidding?

[Blackhorse]

Fried RAT in simple recipe with Mango Sauce!

OMG!!!

 

[Ranger107]

Thank God I've never been that hungry.

 

[Blackhorse]

Yeah. It’s like this great delicacy…right?

 

[Niblick]

To be that fast cleaning and gutting them it must be often eating? I bet it tastes like chicken

 

[Blackhorse]

Rat on a Stick is a big time vendor cart item over there. Yeesh.

I never tried it.

 

[D.L.Ruth]

Well, if you're not supposed to eat it then it wouldn't be made of meat... right?

 

[Blackhorse]

Well, if you're not supposed to eat it then it wouldn't be made of meat... right?

 

[Natch]

I've had grilled guinea pig in Bolivia and Peru in the past, but rats?!?

 

[Blackhorse]

I've had grilled guinea pig in Bolivia and Peru in the past, but rats?!?

Well…it’s BBQ with a very tasty sauce.

 

[Singed]

It beats eating your own arm...I suppose...

 

[Bud Savoie01]

In Vietnam, I was told that some peasants did indeed eat rat. A major who had spent much time in the boonies, informed me that these were not those nasty bubonic plague-carrying vermin that wiped out a third of Europe, but "rice rats," which fed on the rice plants and were therefore considered pests---and were clean animals and no worse than rabbits, as far as eating is concerned. I never tried them, thank you very much.

 

[Balisong]

I've raised rabbits for the table in the past and plan on starting again. I also read that some cultures raise gerbils for meat. If a non carnivorous animals is raised in a clean environment with a healthy diet it's probably edible. I prefer to raise meat animals that provide two to six portions of protein rather than small animals that are served in multiples like quail, two per serving.

 

[Ranger107]

I've raised rabbits for the table in the past and plan on starting again. I also read that some cultures raise gerbils for meat. If a non carnivorous animals is raised in a clean environment with a healthy diet it's probably edible. I prefer to raise meat animals that provide two to six portions of protein rather than small animals that are served in multiples like quail, two per serving.

When I was working in Georgia I had a friend who was a big dove hunter. Never could understand rhat as it took 6 of them to make a meal, lol. I liked to hunt pheasant in the Midwest as 2 of them would feed 4 or 5 people.

 

[Singed]

The truth is that when you're actually hungry, truly hungry, anything lower than you on the food chain is on the menu. And availability puts things at the top of the menu. Rats, pigeons, cats, and dogs were all on the menu in occupied France during the second World War. That doesn't make it haut cuisine but it does become an ethnic staple if enough people rely on it.

 

[Blackhorse]

In Vietnam, I was told that some peasants did indeed eat rat. A major who had spent much time in the boonies, informed me that these were not those nasty bubonic plague-carrying vermin that wiped out a third of Europe, but "rice rats," which fed on the rice plants and were therefore considered pests---and were clean animals and no worse than rabbits, as far as eating is concerned. I never tried them, thank you very much.

Interesting…google “rat on a stick”…yikes!

 

[Singed]

Reminds me of a scene in "Demolition Man" where Sylvester Stallone gets a burger from a street vendor. He likes it and asks what it is, "Este carne es de Rata, Senor."

 

[Singed]

At the risk of making this even more gruesome, baby mice are a delicacy in some asian cultures. Rat doesn't seem half so bad in light of that.

 

[Singed]

I've raised rabbits for the table in the past and plan on starting again. I also read that some cultures raise gerbils for meat. If a non carnivorous animals is raised in a clean environment with a healthy diet it's probably edible. I prefer to raise meat animals that provide two to six portions of protein rather than small animals that are served in multiples like quail, two per serving.

So, no hamster ranch in your future?

 

[Balisong]

So, no hamster ranch in your future?

No, I ended the quail and raise chickens, ducks, turkeys and rabbits for the table. I've raised geese but they were too aggressive toward my wife when they hatched out their young and a job and a half to process!

 

[Ranger107]

Well, in SERE training I ate grubs just to prove I wasn't a candy *** wuss. A couple of other guys tried it but they both threw up, lol. I would have to be absolutely starving to do it again.