LOL, I forgout about Liddy’s long rants about eating rats as a kid.
However, I can stomach a rat much easier, since I’ve already eaten squirrel, snake, etc. Maggots make me gag on sight.
From my limited personal experiences, and more extensive reading of the experiences of others, I think people will eat anything if they get hungry enough. I think I'd eat maggots long before I ever indulged in human flesh, and yet there are stories out there about people being driven to cannibalism in extreme circumstances. I mention maggots more because of their medical value...they can be very useful for maggot debridement therapy. It sounds medieval, but it's probably already used more commonly in modern medicine than most people want to think about.
A rat is just a squirrel without the fluffy tail.
Fried rattle snake tastes like chicken, yum! Stewed armadillo isn’t bad either.