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2008-02-07 Southeast Asia

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Posted by john frum 2008-02-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 We eat Squirrel, (Tree Rats)so?

Posted by Redneck Jim 2008-02-07 00:37|| 2008-02-07 00:37|| Front Page Top

#2 I wonder if Zen haz a recipe for Rat Mountain Oysters served on Radio Active Platters?

~:)

Posted by RD">RD 2008-02-07 00:38|| 2008-02-07 00:38|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-02-07 06:40|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-02-07 08:10|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-02-07 08:26|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-02-07 09:48|| Front Page Top

#7 MMMMM rat jerky.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2008-02-07 10:29|| 2008-02-07 10:29|| Front Page Top

#8 Would you say phooey to ratatouille?

Posted by SteveS 2008-02-07 10:35|| 2008-02-07 10:35|| Front Page Top

stuffed rat is the best!

Posted by RD">RD 2008-02-07 12:47|| 2008-02-07 12:47|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-02-07 13:17|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-02-07 16:01|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-02-07 16:07|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-02-07 18:17|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-02-07 19:11|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-02-07 21:11|| Front Page Top

#16 What's going to happen in fifteen years, twobyfour?

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2008-02-07 22:38|| 2008-02-07 22:38|| Front Page Top

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