[Cronos]

hungry anyone?

[Little Pig]

Not that long ago, folks would have looked at you weird for suggesting eating ostrich or buffalo too.

[COBOL2Java]

Guinea Pigs are a delicacy in South America.

[mkmensinger]

[Carpe Cerevisi]

[MestaMachine]

Uhhhh....no. But then I don’t live in Africa either.
When I read things like this, it always makes me stop and think what my life would be like had I been born anywhere but here, and I swear to you, I just cannot imagine it.

[Coldwater Creek]

You have completely ruined my Thanksgiving. My granddaughter is a teacher at an American International school in Ghana. I will wonder all day if they are being served rat for their holiday.......

[arthurus]

"Rodents of Unusual Size" and there are pictures but no pictures or words to allow ơne to know what "unusual size" implies, something between hamsters and capybaras, I suppose.

[rpierce]

I don’t think they exist...

[Peter W. Kessler]

When will PETA arrive to protest this?

[SIDENET]

I'd eat it without hesitation.

Sounds good.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

As long as it’s from a clean herbivore, I don’t see a problem.

Meat is meat.

[Safetgiver]

When I was in Thailand, rat meat was always on the street vendors barbecue. I always said I ain’t eating no rat. The Thai captain I was paired with took me out to the rice paddies where the farmers started from one end of the paddy to the other beating bamboo sticks on the rice stalks. Others at the opposite end of the paddy bagged and clubbed the rats as they ran from one end to the other. I saw them, alive, and they were not our Norway rats. I eat rabbit, woodchucks and squirrels and these animals only ate rice. That night, Trang and I got drunk, sat on the curb and ate four rats apiece.

[Farmer Dean]

Will McDonald’s be offering a McVarmint burger soon?

[bgill]

Wait, they have to be approved to raise rats?

[nomad]

There is a rodent in South America called the Capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris), that grows to huge proportions and is eaten down there. Many Americans will eat ground hogs and squirrels so why not raise these things for food, squirrel is a bit gamy but if you`re hungry, its meat.

[KarlInOhio]

Paging G. Gordon Liddy.

SCTV 's Will, the movie

Rat burger, rat popover, apple brown ratty. Mmm mmm mmm!

Or, if you are interested in something completely different:

Monty Python, skip to about 1:30

Well there's rat cake ... rat sorbet ... rat pudding ... or strawberry tart.

[Tupelo]

Don't knock it. Cajuns eat nutria. Of course Cajuns eat damn near everything that lives in the swamp. And when they cook it, it really is delicious.

[Liaison]

If I remember correctly chihuahua were raised by the Central and South American Indians for a meat source. Think yippy chicken.

[PapaBear3625]

So? Rabbits are rodents too, and you can get rabbit meat in some supermarkets in the US. Lots of rural people eat squirrel as well, which is also a rodent.

[Daffynition]

Grass cutters...