Thailand is in the midst of a huge rat problem -- and it’s probably not what you think.
The problem is that there aren’t enough rodents to satisfy the country’s growing appetite for rat meat. This shortage has driven the price of the delicacy to over $3 a pound; a price higher than that of chicken or pork. Rat meat is prepared several ways but is most often barbequed or cooked in oil. The rats come from both the city, where hunters chase them down and clock them with sticks, and from the country where they are trapped in agricultural fields.
Want to learn more about trapping, killing, and eating rat? Of course you do. Then watch the video by BBC's Tom Santorelli.
I think I’d opt for barbequed rat. Or maybe fried. Anybody out there tasted rat? Comment below!
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It is more like rabbit meat
Hi...
Drat...!! Outsider, you beat me to it. Yer right, a lot of our rats are in government...mostly Federal...!!
Maybe if we sent them all to Thailand...?
All meat is meat.
Hotwheels:
Did it taste like chicken?
Maybe that's the way New York City could rid itself of the rat epidemic they've been fighting. Better than collecting aluminum cans for the scrap value. Someone should tell Hizzoner Bloomberg about this.
I believe that the Plague which killed half the population of Europe in the Middle Ages was spread by rats and the fleas they carried. Squirrels feed on plants, nuts and seeds as opposed to garbage or the remnants of dead animals which would include us. No fried rats for this guy, thank you.
The critters in the photo look alarmingly like skinned squirrels, which should come as no surprise since squirrels have long been called tree rats.
This could be a wonderful export opportunity for some of our major metropolitan areas.
However, a garbage-eating rat couldn't possibly taste as good as a persimmon-fed possum.
I've always said rat on the barbie can't be beat.
They should go to Washington DC...There are plenty of rats there...Espically in congress...and politicians....
yummy rat
Can't be much different than squirrel, eh?
In Cusco, Peru, I ate fried cui (guinea pig). At least that's what the restaurant owner said it was.
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Can't be much different than squirrel, eh?
In Cusco, Peru, I ate fried cui (guinea pig). At least that's what the restaurant owner said it was.
They should go to Washington DC...There are plenty of rats there...Espically in congress...and politicians....
Hi...
Drat...!! Outsider, you beat me to it. Yer right, a lot of our rats are in government...mostly Federal...!!
Maybe if we sent them all to Thailand...?
yummy rat
I've always said rat on the barbie can't be beat.
The critters in the photo look alarmingly like skinned squirrels, which should come as no surprise since squirrels have long been called tree rats.
This could be a wonderful export opportunity for some of our major metropolitan areas.
However, a garbage-eating rat couldn't possibly taste as good as a persimmon-fed possum.
I believe that the Plague which killed half the population of Europe in the Middle Ages was spread by rats and the fleas they carried. Squirrels feed on plants, nuts and seeds as opposed to garbage or the remnants of dead animals which would include us. No fried rats for this guy, thank you.
Hotwheels:
Did it taste like chicken?
All meat is meat.
It is more like rabbit meat
Maybe that's the way New York City could rid itself of the rat epidemic they've been fighting. Better than collecting aluminum cans for the scrap value. Someone should tell Hizzoner Bloomberg about this.
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