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Giant rats

Perhaps they need some giant snakes down there to help deal with the giant rats...
;)
 
bcr229 said:
Perhaps they need some giant snakes down there to help deal with the giant rats...
;)
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Yeah, seems like a perfect solution for what to do with the burmese pythons that they catch in the everglades. :rofl:
 
I've heard of people eating squirrel stew, and I know in some cultures they eat guinea pigs, never heard of rat as a meal for people. 'It tastes like chicken'?
 
Lucille said:
I've heard of people eating squirrel stew, and I know in some cultures they eat guinea pigs, never heard of rat as a meal for people. 'It tastes like chicken'?
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They eat rats in Canton (China); nutia are pretty much rats, they eat those in the south.
I'll eat just about anything, just not guts, shrimp or lobster
 
Man, I could eat shrimp and lobster every day of the week...... :lick:
 
We grew up on a farm with woods all around and we ate squirrels during squirrel season. We also has all manner of small game; rabbits, doves, quail and pheasant when the seasons came around and each had its own peculiar flavor. If it tasted like chicken, you'd know there's something wrong with it.

We also made jelly when the grapes and blackberries were ripe, canned cherries, preserved strawberries and blueberries in season, grew and ate watermelon and pickled the rind, canned tomatoes, put up corn, peas, beans, cucumbers, etc. We fished in the spring, putting away white perch and catfish filets, plus crabbed and dug clams in season.

Squirrels were one more thing to harvest. I never liked them much, challenging and interesting to hunt, but extremely tough to skin and hardly big enough to be worth fooling with. Tasted OK, but I'd rather have a good beefsteak.

Other (upland) people around home ate raccoons and opossums, but we never did, dunno why. Many rural folks and hill people around ate groundhogs, which aren't too bad if taken young and cared for properly. I tried it and didn't really care for it and most of our groundhog shooting was during hot summer, far from a cooler full of ice - just too many logistical problems to make it worth keeping something that tastes about the same way it smells. The people closer to water often ate muskrat (marsh hare) and beaver, which I wouldn't eat due to the blood-red meat just not looking appetizing.

So, having eaten squirrels, groundhogs, blue crabs and even a damn oyster, I still don't want a rat.
 
I don't like the texture of lobster and shrimp.
Plus, most of the shrimp available tends to be really dirty (pollution, etc)
I guess I'm an odd fella :thumbsup:
 
j_dunlavy said:
odd fella
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You just have your own tastes and preferences and that is a good thing. There are some things I don't like.
One of the reasons I like Fauna is because it tends to have people that don't back down from what they want just because others have different opinions.

I guess if someone took time to cook up rat, maybe baked into a meat pie like the British do with steak and kidney pie, I'd try it. I can't help thinking I probably wouldn't like it but I would admit it if I did.

Of course if the SHTF and everyone was hungry, a rat pie might look pretty good.
 
Lucille said:
You just have your own tastes and preferences and that is a good thing.
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I try to be pretty open minded about everything.
I didn't think I would like duck tongue but had some in China and it was pretty tasty. In fact the only thing (other than internal organs) I refused to eat was the turtle they brought out at my wedding dinner over there; my wife yelled at them because she specifically said no turtle (we have a soft spot for turtles at my house).

When you are starving though, "all meat is meat"... even rat, bat or cat
 
Yeah, I suppose that if I were hungry enough I would likely eat just about anything. Even cheese. :)
 
I love food lol I will try absolutely anything. While traveling through Brazil, I am 99.99% sure I ate some cats/dogs, but hey the street vendor said it was beef, so down it goes. (Should I really have trusted a guy selling skewers out of a cart? Maybe, maybe not LOL) But honestly will eat anything.

I actually really enjoy offal. Tripe, heart, liver, tongue, all were awesome meals growing up! :) AND HEALTHY! Everytime I visit anywhere that serves "exotic" cuts and meats, I HAVE to try it! :)
 
Man, not me.... I am what I eat, and I'm darn picky about what I might become.
 
liver and onions was a weekly meal growing up. We have it 3 or 4 times a year now.
 
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