Can you really eat rat?

I think we all know you CAN eat rat but whether you would do so or not is up to you. I would personally only ever do it if I HAD to. Much like the situations where rat has been eaten, like by POW's, it was necessary for survival. I doubt it will appear in any fast food restaurants soon though...
 
Steve6387 said:
Not for nothing, but I just took this pic yesterday
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YES, I eat bottom feeders and filter feeders too. Love them. I've never tried anything edible I didn't like and wouldn't eat, and I've eaten some weird things in odd and off the grid places.
 
Cook it very well and avoid the brain and other elements of the CNS. I'm not sure that rats carry prion diseases, but squirrels and mice do, so it wouldn't surprise me.

Oh, cooking and extreme heat do NOT kill prion diseases.
 
I can't count the Squirrels & Rabbits that I have eaten over the years ( plus Rats in Nam when we were out for 12 days to many and no other food available. ) rather good but cooked very well done and they were very small but plentiful.!
Really like a very nice plump Rabbit cooked on the Grill ~~ YUMMMMM. But then again I don't think I would eat any Rats here in the USA as they eat everything and anything ~ period.!** As long as you have water and you were with nothing to eat for days "you will eat anything to try and survive" ~~ I promise you ""anything to live another day"".!!!
 
Probably would be Ok if grilled/roasted over coals (most meat is :) ).
One thing I heard through the years is that rats/mice taken from fields or forest are safer to eat than those from the city, due to unsanitary conditions for city rodents.
Different topic: there's an ad in a well known food chain on "Extra Long Pulled Pork." Sounds too close to Long Pork especially when you read the ads a certain way :)
 
leghog said:
Look what we're having for Sunday supper the Sunday after my son returns from Israel.

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I've had roo before .. them's good eatin'. Very lean meat and would buy it if I could get it where I live.
 
I'd buy roo here all the time, but the logistics chain is so messed up, its more pricey than beef. The stories I've heard about the skills of pro roo-shooters. if they are even half true, that's some guys I would never want to be on the bad side of.
 
Ultraman said:
I've had roo before .. them's good eatin'. Very lean meat and would buy it if I could get it where I live.
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I have yet to eat kangaroo, but I suspect that Crocodile Dundee and I have both eaten "saltie" (crocodile) - he in the Northern Territory and me in Papua New Guinea. Good tucker, mate, though with fishy taste:D
 
I've eaten crocodile in Papua New Guinea and alligator in South Carolina, Georgia, and Hawaii (you could buy alligator at one of the military commissaries in Hawaii).
 
We do a "eat what you find" trip every couple of years in which we bring our normal backpacking load but instead of food we bring .22's and fishing poles. This trip is awesome!
On the trip fish is always the best delicacy because what we harvest with the .22's are snakes (actually very tasty), squirrels (Fox and Black/Gray are good, red is very gamey), porcupine (horrible, but we've eaten 2 of them. One was lactating and my brother drank the milk and didn't die. It tasted like pine tree milk). A rat would be right at home on this menu. We tend to cook all the meats a bit more than you would cook venison or other trusted meat. Since wild rat would have a similar diet to squirrel or rabbit I would imagine the flavor would be the same.

P.S. rabbit is great and best when cooked for longer periods (such as in stew or roasted). Fire-cooked rabbit is usually quite tough but has a mild flavor and is less stringy than squirrel.
 
Macchina said:
We do a "eat what you find" trip every couple of years in which we bring our normal backpacking load but instead of food we bring .22's and fishing poles. This trip is awesome!
On the trip fish is always the best delicacy because what we harvest with the .22's are snakes (actually very tasty), squirrels (Fox and Black/Gray are good, red is very gamey), porcupine (horrible, but we've eaten 2 of them. One was lactating and my brother drank the milk and didn't die. It tasted like pine tree milk). A rat would be right at home on this menu. We tend to cook all the meats a bit more than you would cook venison or other trusted meat. Since wild rat would have a similar diet to squirrel or rabbit I would imagine the flavor would be the same.

P.S. rabbit is great and best when cooked for longer periods (such as in stew or roasted). Fire-cooked rabbit is usually quite tough but has a mild flavor and is less stringy than squirrel.
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Really? Short of true survival, you should never take nursing mammals.
 
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