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| Southeast Asia |
| Thai diners show appetite for rat |
| 2008-02-07 |
| Thai fast food sellers are enjoying a boom in rat sales, as people learn to love the taste of the rodent. While rat has long been eaten in Thailand's poorer northern regions, a growing number of the country's roadside vendors are now serving it up. The rats are drowned and sold uncooked or ready to eat, with happy customers purchasing rat meat for as much as 150 baht ($4.82; £2.30) a kilogram. "It's better than chicken," one customer told the AP news agency. "It all depends what you like, but it's a normal meat like any other," added Thongyu Roruchit. ne rat seller, Sala Prompim, said that the hip and liver were the best cuts. "It's tastier than other meats - nothing can compete with rat," he added. Mr Prompim said he only used rats caught from rice fields, and not those found in towns or cities. "They are definitely clean," he said. The animals are killed by drowning, before being skinned ready for cooking - poached, fried, grilled or baked. Mr Prompim says he sells as much as 100kg of rat meat on some days. |
| Posted by:john frum |
| #16 What's going to happen in fifteen years, twobyfour? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-02-07 22:38 |
| #15 No real difference from the Kangaroo meat on sale in my local grocery store. Do tell! |
| Posted by: 3dc 2008-02-07 21:11 |
| #14 Much as I hate to spoil a good story, but these are not rat Rats. They are called Pig Rats, and are in fact Bandicoots, a type of marsupial. No real difference from the Kangaroo meat on sale in my local grocery store. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2008-02-07 19:11 |
| #13 Delphi, get over it--it may be your meal ticket in very lean times. Talk to me in 15 years. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2008-02-07 18:17 |
| #12 $4.82 a kilogram I'll stick to hamburger, where the chance of rat meat is only 50/50. |
| Posted by: ed 2008-02-07 16:07 |
| #11 "Thai diners show appetite for rat" McCain should avoid any junkets there in future. |
| Posted by: Thratch Prince of the Geats6283 2008-02-07 16:01 |
| #10 Drowning? If they're like any other animal, methods of death which bleed them out will produce a better tasting product. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2008-02-07 13:17 |
| #9 stuffed rat is the best! |
| Posted by: RD 2008-02-07 12:47 |
| #8 Would you say phooey to ratatouille? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2008-02-07 10:35 |
| #7 MMMMM rat jerky. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2008-02-07 10:29 |
| #6 I once read a book by someone who spent years in the NORK gulag where people are basically starved to death. He figured out how to catch and cook rats - 30 or 40 a day - and as a result got fat. The guards were so amazed at this they thought he had magical powers and he survived to defect to the South. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2008-02-07 09:48 |
| #5 The animals are killed by drowning, before being skinned ready for cooking - poached, fried, grilled or baked How long will be before we hear from PETA? Did anyone check to make sure that they are indeed dead before cooking? Queue the crickets please! This is as disgusting as cooked monkey brains, grasshoppers and fried insect larvae. Yech. |
| Posted by: Delphi 2008-02-07 08:26 |
| #4 One of the most popular dishes at any siege. Don't be caught, within the walls, without them. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-02-07 08:10 |
| #3 "Wha's for afters?" "Rat cake, rat sorbet, rat pudding, or strawberry tart." "Strawberry tart?" "Well, it's got *some* rat in it." "'Ow much?" "Three. A lot, really." "Well, I'll have a slice without so much rat in it." |
| Posted by: Mike 2008-02-07 06:40 |
| #2 I wonder if Zen haz a recipe for Rat Mountain Oysters served on Radio Active Platters? ~:) |
| Posted by: RD 2008-02-07 00:38 |
| #1 We eat Squirrel, (Tree Rats)so? |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2008-02-07 00:37 |