Rat meat price hikes accompany Cambodia's rising cost of living.

Phnom Penh - The rocketing price of more conventional meats due to bird flu quarantines and world oil prices has doubled the market price of rat meat in Cambodia, local media reported Tuesday. Rat meat has become so valuable that rice farmers "in their hundreds" had set up sideline businesses catching rats and making them table-ready, reported the Khmer-language daily Kampuchea Thmey.
Whereas a kilo of the best quality rat meat went for around 50 cents two years ago, it now fetches up to 1.50 dollars, the paper reported.
Restrictions on imports of pigs and poultry in an attempt to limit the spread of avian influenza, or bird flu, combined with high petrol prices have pushed up the prices of more usual staples.
Cambodians in certain provinces have long caught rats as a protein source when rodent numbers reach a peak during the rice harvest and enjoy the meat roasted or dried as a snack while drinking.

Source (http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/176734,rat-meat-price-hikes-accompany-cambodias-rising-cost-of-living.html)

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Tasty???

Tastes like chicken...

I've had "taco de skippy" (basically dog tacos) in Mexico. We never knew why they were so cheap (at first), but as drunk and hungry as we were I don't remember tasting the difference. :f-beer2:

Ratatouille extra crispy

I knew I should not have entered this thread, but curiosity got the best of me. I'm going back to being a vegetarian again soon!

haha
well I've eaten squirrel before, and basically, squirrels are just tree rats, right? Little chewy, not much meat on them. I'd try it.

Rat is a bit on the odd side, that's for sure. Had it a couple of times, grew up down the street from a Vietnamese refugee family. Once you got over the fact of what it was, the taste wasn't really that bad, and it was another item on the "what the hell did you eat?!" list, which includes goat, snake, and beaver of the aquatic variety.

haha Yeah, I tried snake while visiting some friends down in Texas. Personally, I thought it tasted like shit unless you douse it in BBQ sauce.

cow, rat, pig, cat.......its all the fookin same...