Hunters take advantage of the field rats’ reliable presence and sell their bounty to local roadside vendors or export it to Vietnam. In Cambodia, sellers cook the rat over charcoal and serve it accompanied by dipping sauces made from lime juice and black pepper or fish sauce and chilies. The skin is salty and rich, similar to roast chicken, while the meat itself has the savoriness of pork. Most Cambodians pair it with a local lager, such as Angkor. And no you don't eat the tail.
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Damn, that sounds really good actually
Apparently field mice with a diet of rice, corn and sugar-cane are vastly different "animals" than their city dwelling brethrens.
I completely believe that. Actually sounds like a pretty tasty way to keep down pests and have an additional income stream
Well this is kinda easy to understand even as a westerner; you probably consider a gray/flecked pigeon as a something more or less dirty, but a white dove is the sign of purity and whatnot.
Exactly the same animal, just different colouring.
Somehow we just think eating French fries off the ground makes pigeons dirty but doves eating insects is completely fine.
Pigeons are done so dirty it's so sad.
I mean I also would like if they didn't cover everything in pewp en masse, preferably, but otherwise they're beautiful animals that aren't the "flying rats" people have dubbed them as.
I think anything will be considered more clean, appealing, and less gross when it isn't being forced to scrounge around a nasty toxic concrete city habitat for scrap sustenance, but what do I know. Lol
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Still I wonder whether they'd taste even better if they were given A LOT of food, and made very fatty.
Yeah, it's pretty good. Although I find the meat kinda tough and stringy.
Still a nasty rat, though.
Depends entirely on where the rat came from. I wouldn't eat a New York city garbage rat but I see nothing wrong with a woods rat. People eat woods animals all the time, including rabbit and squirrel.
And racoon. Racoons are delicious, the meat being comparable to dark meat chicken. I wouldn't eat some city trash panda, but the coons out here in the country are hell yeah.
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And no you don’t eat the tail.
I mean its not like you eat the stick of a corn dog.
TIL
🤯 no fkn way
That's where all the fiber is
Anyone who's read Terry Pratchett knows that rats on a stick are a well-beloved street food in Ankh-Morpork!
Among the dwarves, anyway. Most humans seem to prefer a sausage inna bun, though the way Dibbler's food is described, I think the dwarves might be better off.
Got a have ketchup though.
On a King’s ship they’d grill them and serve them with onion sauce.
I’ve got a recipe.
Babbington looked wretchedly from one to the other, licked his lips and said, ‘I ate your rat, sir. I am very sorry, and I ask your pardon.’
‘Did you so?’ said Stephen mildly. ‘Well, I hope you enjoyed it. Listen, Jack, will you look at my list, now?’
'He only ate it when it was dead,’ said Jack.
‘It would have been a strangely hasty, agitated meal, had he ate it before,’ said Stephen.
I see you are a man of culture.
A glass of wine with you sir!
Do you see any cows around here?
Once you skin'em, they don't look much differ'nt than a skwrl, and e'rybody ets skwrl alla time.
I'd give it a try
Apparently, it tastes like chicken.
More like squirrel.
I hear.
Can't decide if I would. They look good, but... rats.
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Genuinely looks good.
4 bottlecaps per mole rat.
Always wondered how much meat was on a rat. Thought about squirrel hunting, but I just can't kill for a single burrito worth of meat. And yes, I get that they're eating pests in this case.
Up through WWI, there was an official war on squirrels, which ran for the previous 400 years. There were often bounties on squirrels in many places.
The iconic cookbook The Joy of Cooking included directions to skin a squirrel, with recipes, until just a few decades ago.
gotta eat somethin'...
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