4 bottlecaps per mole rat.
Genuinely looks good.
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.
Well this is kinda easy to understand even as a westerner; you probably consider a gray/flecked pigeon as a something more or less dirty, but a white dove is the sign of purity and whatnot.
Exactly the same animal, just different colouring.
Somehow we just think eating French fries off the ground makes pigeons dirty but doves eating insects is completely fine.
Pigeons are done so dirty it’s so sad.
I mean I also would like if they didn’t cover everything in pewp en masse, preferably, but otherwise they’re beautiful animals that aren’t the “flying rats” people have dubbed them as.
I think anything will be considered more clean, appealing, and less gross when it isn’t being forced to scrounge around a nasty toxic concrete city habitat for scrap sustenance, but what do I know. Lol
I completely believe that. Actually sounds like a pretty tasty way to keep down pests and have an additional income stream
house mice, might carry diseases, probably best not to eat them, as they eat nasty stuff too.
I know lots of small game hunters in the U.S. and it’s very much the same. Try to avoid taking game close to human developments as they’ll feed on trash and it can lead to issues like overpopulation and disease.
Taking game from wild areas means the animal has had to hunt and forage to survive leading to a healthier population and healthier harvest.
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.
Marbling.
Wagyu Rat
Most things would.
[Nothing] sweeter than a peach-fed possum
Can’t recall source
Still a nasty rat, though.
Depends entirely on where the rat came from. I wouldn’t eat a New York city garbage rat but I see nothing wrong with a woods rat. People eat woods animals all the time, including rabbit and squirrel.
And racoon. Racoons are delicious, the meat being comparable to dark meat chicken. I wouldn’t eat some city trash panda, but the coons out here in the country are hell yeah.
Yeah, I was thinking it sounded like a good menu description. Wouldn’t it would be fun to come home and tell everyone you had barbecued farm-raised country rat?
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.
The best is at Gimlet’s Hole Food Delicatessen
His eyes!
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.
luckily its native species instead of the nasty brown or black rats, or even the polynesian rat.
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?
They really do look like molerats from Fallout
they look like invasive pests, so its probably a good idea.
Once you skin’em, they don’t look much differ’nt than a skwrl, and e’rybody ets skwrl alla time.
Do you see any cows around here?
I’d give it a try
Apparently, it tastes like chicken.
More like squirrel.
I hear.
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.
I would 100% have one
It’s not the odd animal that bothers me. It’s just that I know rats are huge carriers of serious diseases while living that I’m not sure if they’d still be dangerous to eat after cooking.
These are 100% organic free range bamboo rats though.
more concerned with the brown rat since they are the host of the oriental rat flea, aka carriers of the plague.
Are they? I think the plague was spread by their fleas rather than the rats themselves, not sure about other diseases though. Eating chicken raw isn’t good for you either, so I am not sure if its much point in comparing them while alive.
Kidney beans are pretty bad for you in their raw state too.
Well I have no idea if it is dangerous or not. I’d have to investigate further.
Even if technically fleas may have spread the disease, they were still located on and being carried by the rats. Hantavirus is a huge dangerous one that rats can spread. There are others too as well as parasitic infections.
Same bacteria produce toxins and even after cooking it, the bacteria are destroyed, but the toxins remain. But it depends on the type of bacteria. It’s how some types of food poisoning works.
But yeah if all of these still mean that rats are safe to eat when cooked thoroughly, I’m on board. I just don’t know enough about cooked rats and quite frankly I don’t feel like investigating more since there is no one selling cooked rats by me lol.
Well I have no idea if it is dangerous or not. I’d have to investigate further.
“but I’m still going to publicly share my opinions on it first”
I hate the internet, and yet I can’t seem to stop logging on. FML
I mean, this isn’t a scientific research lab or anything. It’s a casual conversational community lol.
Lol yeah don’t worry too much about it.
Not like this comment was your grand presentation at the International Edible Carrion Science Conference 2025 or something. :p
Oh fuck I forgot about the conference! I’m late!
gotta eat somethin’…
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.
If I had to eat rat or dog I would go for eating grass.
Mark as NSFW maybe
Edit: literal fucking burnt corpses of animals, but sure guys - keep making fun of me
So many sexy, scantily clad rats.
Stahp. I can get only so erect.
Do you work in Cambodia and don’t want colleagues to know about your favorite snack ?
Vegetarian?
Yours more likely
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At least a content warning for animal gore would’ve been nice
Would you expect the same of a roast chicken?
That would be nice yes. People who eat meat are desensitized to the image. Others find it disturbing.
Yes, is it so bad that I don’t like seeing dead animals? I block all the non-vegan food communities for this exact reason. Lemmy probably would’ve freaked out over a picture of a skinned and fried dog, I don’t see a difference.
Shops and general society don’t care about roast chickens on public display, it isn’t NSFW. So an NSFW tag would be inappropriate.
What do you think about this?
