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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.
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
Yeah, it's pretty good. Although I find the meat kinda tough and stringy.
Still I wonder whether they'd taste even better if they were given A LOT of food, and made very fatty.
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!
Wow those rats are HUGE. This is AFTER they've been barbecued so they'll have had heads and fur removed and shrunk from moisture loss and they still look that big. Wouldn't want to find one of those things before they're barbecued.
These are bamboo rats. They grow pretty big. Some are grown in farms.
Bamboo rats go through three stages when eating bamboo. The initial phase is the quick motion of the bamboo entering the rat’s mouth. The intermediate phase is the movement of the teeth chewing the bamboo and the final stage is the state of the rats’ teeth right after eating the bamboo.
Um, what?
luckily its native species instead of the nasty brown or black rats, or even the polynesian rat.
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
Can't decide if I would. They look good, but... rats.
Cambodian field rats, specifically. The kids go through sugar cane fields to hunt them. They're a dietary staple there. They aren't like sewer rats, and probably taste a bit like pork. They're probably healthier animals than most of the meat you'd get in the US would be. If you're ever in SE Asia and have the opportunity, highly encourage you to try one.
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.
