Thursday, 3 September 2009

A rat a day helps you work, rest and play

One of the beauties of adding the India news links to the column on the right, is that you're never very far away from a completely idiotic - sorry, idiosyncratic - story from India. A cursory glance this morning reveals this lovely little story about eating rats.

"Rats are a major source of protein" says Vijay Prakash, a government official and rat-snacking advocate in the State of Bihar. "The only issue," he continued, before being led back to his padded cell, "is how people react to rat meat, but I think it will not be a problem."

I think we can probably resolve this quite easily. Hands up, who'd like to eat this:



And hands up who'd like to eat this:


Oh. I see. "Waiter, two deep fried rats pleased and make sure the tails are nice and crispy."

Originally published on Blogger on 14th August 2008.

2 comments:

Which Main? What Cross? said...

You will like this article:
http://www.kamat.com/database/articles/vnagar_foods.htm

Food of the common people.

Paul Nixon said...

They didn't go hungry did they? Personally I would have given the field rats a miss, especially with all those other dishes on offer.