here's the picture of the bamboo rat
For reference, here are a couple of other rodents or lagomorphs eaten in the western world
Posted on 04/20/2020 8:42:45 AM PDT by C19fan
For many people, rats are unwanted guests in the house. But in China, they can be a delicacy on the dining table. Chinese bamboo rats, a possible coronavirus carrier, have been a sought-after food source in the country for centuries and hailed for their 'nutritional value'. Tens of thousands of farmers raised them, chefs cooked them in dozens of ways and web users celebrated '100 reasons to eat them' - until the pandemic brought the trade to a standstill.
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I’m not big on wild life. Too many diseases and parasites for me to worry about.
I believe the first decades of “The Joy of Cooking” included a chapter on dressing and prepping a squirrel. I think it was deleted in the early 1960s.
“Cane rats” aren’t really rats. Although certain members of nearly each major group of rodents can be colloquially called “rats,” the typical rat is related to mice. These “rats” are closer related to porcupines and guinea pigs, and are as distantly related to “rats” as you can get and still be called a “rodent.” A better comparison than “rat” would be a “capybara.”
I hear NYC has LARGE rats, Maybe we need more chinese in NYC?
That's on the west side.
I remember reading years ago that Commie Vietnam was doing similar things to promote the consumption of rats. Their propaganda program included discouraging the people from catching and eating cats because the feral cats helped reduce the rat population.
Back then it was motivated by trying to reduce the amount of rice, etc. lost to rats.
[A pest no longer, but a delicious meal, bamboo rats can fetch up to 1,000 yuan (£113) per pair alive or 280 yuan (£31) per kilo grilled, according to Mr Zhushu, an internet forum for bamboo rat breeders.]
Certain squirrels are ok. Some squirrel species carry Parvo.
Lobster is gross. Rural Indians eat field rats, they’re fine to eat. Urban sewer rats are another matter.
They certainly love their plague meat.
Repulsive
Dad killed squirrels for food.....If t’weren’ for squirrel I’d be skinny as a Democrat vegetarian.
In Vietnam the rats come from the rice paddies. The Farmers wives and kids drive them from one end of a paddy to the other where they gathered them up in bags. I have eaten MANY rat quarters cooked over hibachi’s. In Olongopo, Saigon, Danang, and various places in Thailand I gave the street merchants Tobasco Sauce. Big seller to the GI’s. Probably safer than the skinny chickens.
My favorite meat is Lobster. Well, it’s actually tied with King crab legs.
here's the picture of the bamboo rat
For reference, here are a couple of other rodents or lagomorphs eaten in the western world
It’s why they are like rabbits are out of season until the first hard frost,after that they are ok.
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