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Food crisis puts rat on menus

posted August 19, 2008 - 8:52am
Food crisis puts rat on menus

With food prices rising, one of India's poorest states is considering adding rat meat to the menus of state-run canteens, a move officials in Bihar say could help provide cheap protein for the state's 80 million people, most of whom live off the land as poor sharecroppers or subsistence farmers.

"People in different parts of the world eat lizards and dogs. Why not rats?" the state's tribal welfare minister, Jeetan Ram Manjhi, told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

While the suggestion -- there are no firm plans to start marketing rat meat just yet -- may seem repulsive to many inside and outside India, eating rats is not unheard of in Bihar.

Among the poorest people in Bihar are a tribe known as Musahars, whose traditional place in the India's caste system was to catch rats, which they would cook and eat along with the rice and wheat they recovered from rat holes

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But That Won't Drain McDonald's's EnTirE Meat-Supply

Although it may have to make their intestine/ear/horn-suppliers work a little harder. ... signed, Uncle MythMan---Big Fan of the 2008 Olympics, Megan Fox, Laur. Franco, Fussin`, Vanessa Montagne & Lena Li--Xombie Plan

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its so nice

to see everyone willing to try out rat. I am not (i really mean I am not ever compelled by circumstances)...ugghhh. And even Imorovan and Jdubhub agree on something here! In Good Earth (Pearl Buck), they tried out something even more tragic to tide over hunger. My writings here My profile here

Demolition Man's hamburgesas de rata

One of the particularly more memorable scenes from this movie, which starred Sylvester Stallone, Sandra Bullock, and Denis Leary, is when Sly and the San Angeles Police dropped into the underworld in search of the escapee, played by Wesley Snipes. Since the totalitarian mayor of San Angeles had banned meat "for everyone's own good", there wasn't even a burger to be found for the recently thawed Sly. While they were walking amongst the underground refugees, Sly smelled somebody cooking meat. Tracing the smell, they found somebody barbecuing hamburgers. While munching a burger, Sly asked the Hispanic woman what kind of meat was in the burger, she replied, in Spanish, "Rata". While the others gagged, Sly just kept eating with a big smile. If we have to eat mystery meat, I believe a good old fashioned hamburger is going to be the way to do it. You might even say that what we find in many fast food places today is mystery meat, what, given the lax FDA oversight of slaughterhouses. DO YOU HAVE THE WRITE STUFF?

It's all in the sauce?

*lol* ewwww but yeah that might make things easier! I never saw that movie Teresa and kjhack, may have to look into that ... awww champagnedreams we won't serve any rat here on Xomba I hope (ladykenai shrugs, gosh I hope not) *Smiles* If you would like to chat about Xomba or anything you want, join here: http://home.wanadoo.nl/mqs/ladykenai/chat.html ↑ Grab this Headline Animator

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I remember that movie

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in the sauce

Thought-provoking information! I don't think I could eat a rat! This writing, as well as kjhack's comment of "it's all in the sauce" reminds me of the movie "Fried Green Tomatoes" where "the bad guy" gets eaten by the detective looking for him. The detective comments on how good the barbecue is tasting, and the cook replies "the secret's in the sauce!" :) teresaschultz http://www.eastlondon.co.cc http://www.1pic4twenty.co.za

Probably

Less fat and all that. Still, I'd take a nicely cooked rat over grasshoppers any day. I wonder if raw rat meat would be tasty. Rat Tartare, hmmmmmm. :) ↑ Grab this Headline Animator

 
 

Wouldn't Insects

be healthier though?

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It's all in the sauce

I'm sure just about any meat could be tasty with the right preparation. Eating rats is a little less of a disgusting thought than insects, I'll say that much. :) ↑ Grab this Headline Animator

 
 

I'm Sure

you'd enjoy it with eggs over easy :)

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