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View Poll Results: Would you eat a rat?
Yes 10 29.41%
No 24 70.59%
Voters: 34. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 07-17-2007, 06:38 PM
 
Location: Michigan
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I would never eat a rat.

News, As tasty as a truckload of rats.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Live rats are being trucked from central China, suffering a plague of a reported 2 billion rodents displaced by a flooded lake, to the south to end up in restaurant dishes, Chinese media reported.

As tasty as a truckload of rats - Yahoo! News (broken link)
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Old 07-17-2007, 07:54 PM
 
Location: In The Outland
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I would eat YOU before I'd eat a rat !
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Old 07-17-2007, 09:01 PM
 
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I certainly wouldn't PAY to eat one in a restaurant. But when people are straving, they eat rats, so I suppose that I would too. But in the meantime, I'll save my money.
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Old 07-17-2007, 09:35 PM
 
Location: Palm Beach Gardens, Fla
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Have you seen the 'mystery meat' in some of these restaurants? I'm not picking on chinese food, but as far as eating rat meat- I think we may have already.
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Old 07-17-2007, 10:13 PM
 
Location: My heart is in Wyoming, my body is soon to follow.....
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I'm with rickers!
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Old 07-17-2007, 11:21 PM
 
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With all the problems we've been having with food that's being imported from China, we all may have been eating rats for quite some time now.
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Old 07-18-2007, 04:47 AM
 
Location: Oxford, England
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Food is food when you are really hungry.
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Old 07-18-2007, 06:33 AM
 
Location: Sheffield, England
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If it was cooked and prepared properly then yeah, I might try it. Probably just looks and tastes like any other piece of meat when it's on a plate.
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Old 07-18-2007, 06:51 AM
 
Location: Rural Central Texas
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What makes you think we haven't?
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Old 07-18-2007, 07:05 AM
 
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I agree.... we probably have and just don't know it. I wouldn't pay for one that's for sure.... Taste test anyone? LOL
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