Chitchat Guess Which Race Loves Rat Meat More Than Chicken And Pork?

[JohnTan]

KUMARIKATA, INDIA (AFP) - Freshly caught rat is at the top of the holiday menu for crowds flocking to a market in north-eastern India that specialises in rodents from local fields.

Destined to be boiled, skinned and then cooked in a spicy gravy, rat is more popular than chicken and pork with customers at the Sunday market in the village of Kumarikata in Assam state.

Shoppers buy hundreds of freshly caught and skinned rats that local farmers say are hunted to avoid damage to their fields in the state which borders Bhutan.

The ready-roasted kind also goes down well.

Rat has become a valuable source of income for the poor "Adivasi" tribal people who struggle to make ends meet working in Assam's famed tea gardens.

In the winter months when tea picking slumbers, the Adivasis go to rice paddies to trap rats for the market.

A kilogram of rat meat, which is considered a delicacy, sells for about 200 rupees (S$3.90) - as much as for chicken and pork.

Farmers say the region has seen growing numbers of rats in recent years.

"We put traps in the fields as the rats eat people's paddy," Samba Soren, a rat vendor at Kumarikata, said.

The rodents are hunted at night during the harvesting season with traps made from bamboo.

The traps are placed at the entrance of the rat holes in the evening and the rodents are caught as they come out to scavenge.

The vendors have to work at night to make sure other predators do not get to the dead rats first. Some of the rats weigh more than a kilogram and the market traders say they get between 10kg and 20kg a night.

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/the-indian-market-where-rat-earns-top-price

 

[meepokboy]

When you are poor to the extent that you cannot afford chicken/pork, you have no other choice but to resort to rat meat and treat that as a delicacy.

 

[Hypocrite-The]

Chinese eat field rats too.... nothing wrong in eating field rats...


And m&ds do eat wild game meat from mudland jungles. Mouse deer meat etc...Bagus siah...

 

[glockman]

Fucking shitskin snakes are confusing. I thought rats are revered by them?

 

[Semaj2357]

When you are poor to the extent that you cannot afford chicken/pork, you have no other choice but to resort to rat meat and treat that as a delicacy.

Destined to be boiled, skinned and then cooked in a spicy gravy, rat is more popular than chicken and pork

with customers at the Sunday market in the village of Kumarikata in Assam state

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although it's price-point is similar to chicken and pork, it must be the state that they live in , as it also helps with the spicy gravy - sng-sng and niap-niap, shiok!

 

[Hypocrite-The]

Fucking shitskin snakes are confusing. I thought rats are revered by them?

 

[glockman]

Shitskins in sinkieland should be encourage to follow their brethens in India. Eat rats, then we will have less rodent pests.