Would you eat a rodent?

I've always wanted to try many rodent species.

And to you "starvers", don't be such prudes.

I ate fried rat in Thailand. I've eaten many animals that were on the menu around the world. It's actually suprising how many things are taboo to eat in America that have been eaten around the world for thousands of years...

I hear squirrel is good in a crock pot... although what isnt :D

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Originally Posted by wolfy-hound

I cooked rat over a spit and fed it to some other guys and had one myself. When I told them "No, it's not exactly squirrel" they questioned me closer until I admitted it was rat. Then they threw up. I finished the other rat off, since they were no longer hungry.

Rat, squirrel, chicken.. whatever. It was all living at one point, and then it's dead, and it's edible.

Trying to remember everything I've ever tried... I really can't think of much that I haven't tried, except for primates(obviously), cetaceans(although my grandfather and mother both ate manatee at one time) and I won't eat poisonous creatures like fugu(the blowfish) because risking death or maiming just for the thrill of eating a meal seems stupid.

I regularly eat things off the floor, and twice now have tried to eat a bead I found on the floor of the shop, much to my boss's disgust and disbelief each time(two DIFFERENT bosses, at seperate times, both honest mistakes.. I thought the shiny spheres were candy!). What's an immune system for anyhow?

Oh.. and although cheesey crickets out of the box aren't bad at all, the sour cream and onion crickets are dry and taste spoiled to me. Both are very dry on the tongue though, fresh crickets are better, so don't bother buying the packaged kind. Make your own.

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Where do you shop? :P

Yes, if i could catch a live one and cook it. I think I would have to be really way down there to eat a frozen one. But you dont have to taste it really, just swallow it really fast without chewing. Like one time we were weeding the garden and we where finding all these disgusting grubs. My dad dared me to eat one and i of course said no but then he said hed give me 50 bucks so he really wasnt thinking that i would do it at all. But i said okay and swallowed it in one gulp. It was an easy 50 bucks! :rofl::rofl:

i guess some people might find it gross but squirrel is great grill 4 a couple of minutes then finish in pan of beer and ur favorite bbq sauce in the oven 4 fall off the bone goodness also the brains r great in scrambled eggs rabbit isn't bad either generally just fry them up like chicken but cant imagine rat or mouse tasting 2 much different

The worst thing I've ever tried is a Balut egg in the Phillipines. And I flat out refused to try the fried cockroaches...

Mice are a bit small to feed a family of four. I'd instead go out into the backyard, get one of the smaller goats that we plan to send to the meat market..And have some goat for dinner.

I voted yes, because if I were starving, I would do what it took to survive. Now as far as actually not throwing it back up? That I have no clue.

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Originally Posted by Neal

I voted yes, because if I were starving, I would do what it took to survive. Now as far as actually not throwing it back up? That I have no clue.

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Why?

What is so different about a rat then any other creature?