I haven't been there, but I believe that cavers who used to
go to Yochib in Chiapas said that you could buy roasted rat on a
stick in the market. I don't know if any of them tried it. Maybe
Bill Steele could comment.
Mark
At 10:44 AM 5/28/2012, [email protected] wrote:
I have eaten wild rats in Laos and they were quite good. Lab rats
are a different story. Some years ago I held a rat BBQ here at
Weazelworld. My neighbor was the largest rat farmer in the world,
but he wouldn't sell any to me when he found out we were going to
eat them, a liability issue I suppose. That meant I had to go to
Hogtown Herps, a decidedly down market place. We got jumbos and
large pinkies, almost fuzzies. The jumbos were barbecued in the
traditional manner and tasted terrible. The pinkies were rolled on
the grill, they looked and tasted exactly like fat little weenies.
The problem was that I had failed to gut them. So it came to pass
that someone was passing around a tray of pinkies fresh off the
grill. I had learned that the head and thorax were good; whereas the
abdomen was not, so I bit down on the forward section and a jet of
hot rat shit squirted out and hit a passing woman directly in the
eye. She was not pleased.
And I agree, snakes have dry stringy white meat that tastes nothing
like chicken. In China I was once served a bowl of three snake with
cat meat soup. The cat meat predominated which saved the soup.
Sleaze
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