Meat Space
Apr05
on 2017-04-05
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I don’t think I would care for rat-on-a-stick. Not because it is rodent but rather because I suspect it would be a lot of work for too little meat. Rodent burger would not be bad though. I’ve never understood why they make beef cat food but not bird or mouse flavor.
Rat-on-a-stick wouldn’t be much worse than quail or other small bird
Yeah while I like Rock Cornish Game Hens, they are almost too much work as well. They are about the smallest I’d be willing to go on food with bones. Depending on the size of the rats, I don’t think they would have enough meat on them to make enough of a meal, ROUS maybe, but your average rat isn’t going to leave much once you remove the skin, offal and bones.
You’d actually be surprised (and possibly shocked) at how big some ‘average rats’ can get
Talking wild rat, not lab rat
@Greywolf
Because fat slow cows inside a pen are a hell of a lot easier to catch than rats and birds. Vastly more meat on them too, considering the goal is to produce high volumes of food byproducts by the pound.
Once skinned it takes maybe 10 minutes to get 300-500 pounds of useable meat from a cow. A rat would probably take longer to safely get less than 2 pounds.
Which is really why I would not eat rat-on-a-stick. I tend to enjoy rabbit, but it is very time consuming to try to get the meat off the bones (and there are a lot of bones) and I’m not really 9ne to want to spend 3 hours at the dinner table these days.
Some river rats can get to the size of a small dog.
Yes, the capybara (no tail though)
Maybe not as big as a South American Capybara, but a New Orleans Nutria is still a pretty decent size of river-rodent:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coypu]
…& its origins are S.American also!
She knows Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler!
Squirrels are about the same size as rats and I have had squirrel dumplings and stews many times. Also so closely related to rats that they are sometimes called bushy tailed rats.
When we hear the word “rodent” most people picture rats or mice, but there’s many larger members of the rodent family we usually don’t consider as vermin that many wouldn’t complain about being served, particularly in communities where hunting is common. Rabbit is fairly common almost anywhere in the world. Capybara’s were mentioned. Beavers, gophers, possums…