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jmcquown[_2_]

On 1/23/2019 10:18 AM, wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 09:48:06 -0500, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:
>
>> On 1/23/2019 9:28 AM, jmcquown wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> BTW, I'm pretty sure people have been in situations where they ate rats
>>> when they were starving.Â* Prisoner of war camps come to mind.
>>>
>>> Jill
>>
>> They still eat them. Andrew Zimmern had a bit about it on a show from
>> Vietnam. The ones that feed in the rice paddies have a cleaner taste.
>
> One of my uncles was a prisoner in Changhi jail, eating rats was a
> luxury - he said he never thought about rats in the same way again!
> Another uncle who was a prisoner in Nagasaki reported the same thing.
>
My father was never a prisoner of war but he mentioned he saw the poor
villagers he encountered in Vietnam would eat. And in Korea before
that. Cooking over braisers in small huts.

You don't want rats to get at your grain or vegetables. So you kill
them. If you don't have any other source of meat, you skin and roast
them. A source of protein that didn't have to be hunted down when there
were enemy troops around.

Jill