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2008-08-13 India-Pakistan

Rat snacks can solve world food price crisis: Indian official

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Posted by Delphi 2008-08-13 13:20|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 Reminds me of a biography of a NORK defector I read. In a labour camp, he figured out how to catch and cook rats and was eating 30 or 40 a day.

He said the guards were terrified of him. They thought he was somekind of magician/sorcerer, because he was getting fat while everyone else in the camp was starving to death.

Posted by phil_b 2008-08-13 13:51|| 2008-08-13 13:51|| Front Page Top

#2 You can have mine, Vijay.
You're welcome.

Posted by tu3031 2008-08-13 14:01|| 2008-08-13 14:01|| Front Page Top

#3 Didn't someone write a book about prisoners of war in a Japanese POW camp who started capturing cooking and selling rats.

I think the book was called 'King Rat'.

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-08-13 14:04|| 2008-08-13 14:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Read Patrick O'Brian about the culinary habits of the British Navy circa 1800.

Posted by AlanC 2008-08-13 14:18|| 2008-08-13 14:18|| Front Page Top

#5 MMMM Rat Jerky!

Posted by Deacon Blues 2008-08-13 14:33|| 2008-08-13 14:33|| Front Page Top

#6 Tastes just like chicken.

Bet that Beijing restaurant serves rat penuses.

Posted by DK70 the Scantily Clad7177 2008-08-13 15:15|| 2008-08-13 15:15|| Front Page Top

#7 It'd be just another menu item (of a sort) here

Posted by Pappy 2008-08-13 15:34|| 2008-08-13 15:34|| Front Page Top

#8 Would you say phooey to ratatouille?

Posted by SteveS 2008-08-13 15:40|| 2008-08-13 15:40|| Front Page Top

#9 This is not the first time that the department secretary has come out with such an innovative idea.

Earlier, he proposed to recruit eunuchs as security guards to maternity wards in hospitals.

"Yes, that proposal is in its advance stage and we'll very soon engage them in various social activities of our department," he said.

And the welfare secretary's next plan?

"I'll make snake catching popular for the economic value of its venom," he said.

Posted by john frum 2008-08-13 16:04|| 2008-08-13 16:04|| Front Page Top

#10 I eat squirrels, they're nothing but a tree rat. I'd assume Norwegian browns are fairly similar.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-08-13 17:08|| 2008-08-13 17:08|| Front Page Top

#11 Snake is even better John, prolly much better for you than beef.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-08-13 17:10|| 2008-08-13 17:10|| Front Page Top

#12 King Rat was by James Clavell. You'll also find rats as food in the C. S. Forester Hornblower series. Does anyone here have the O'Brian cookbook?

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2008-08-13 21:00|| 2008-08-13 21:00|| Front Page Top

#13 You don't know how close that gets to the truth. When India closed down the reptile skin trade the local snake charmers took a major economic hit. Venom sales alone wasn't good enough to keep the tradition alive. So Ron Whittaker of crocodile fame had them start a rat catcher co-op. The snake charmer families got a steady income all the rats they could eat plus the 10's of kilos of rice and wheat the rats had stored. The farmers got their fields cleared of rats cheaper than baits. Ron got the surplus rats to feed his crocs. Mind you that these Indian rats tend to be around house cat size.

Posted by bruce 2008-08-13 21:16|| 2008-08-13 21:16|| Front Page Top

#14 IIRC FOX or CNN > short montage on how the steady decline of US veterinarians skilled in the diagnosis and treatment of large/big animals had become a NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUE for the US Army-DOD - THIS ARTICLE ON SERE TRNG as per EDIBLES ILLUSTRATES WHY.

WHAT CAVALRY HOSSES EAT-N-DRINK NATURALLY, etc. ON THE MOVE MATTERS TO THE LT PHYSICAL HEALTH AND BASE SURVIVAL OF TROOPERS + UNIT, ESPEC IN HIGH-STRESS SITUATIONS LIKE, OH I DUNNO, COMBAT!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-08-13 23:20|| 2008-08-13 23:20|| Front Page Top

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