On 7 March every year, in a remote village in the hills of north-east India, the Adi tribe celebrates Unying-Aran, an unusual festival with rats as the culinary centrepiece. One of the Adi’s favourite dishes is a stew called bule-bulak oying, made with the rat’s stomach, intestines, liver, testes, foetuses, all boiled together with tails and legs plus some salt, chili and ginger.

Rats were eaten in China during the Tang dynasty (618-907 AD) and called “household deer”. One speciality eaten during the Tang dynasty was new-born rats stuffed with honey, “conveniently snatching them with chopsticks“, the authors say.

“In pre-European times [New Zealand’s] South Island was a major source of kiore, which were preserved and eaten in vast quantities, normally in early winter,” According to the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, the kiore was considered a delicacy served to visitors and even used as a currency, exchanged at ceremonies such as weddings.

Rats are eaten regularly in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, parts of the Philippines and Indonesia, Thailand, Ghana, China and Vietnam, says Grant Singleton, from the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines.

In Africa, some communities have a long tradition of eating rats. In Nigeria, for instance, the African giant rat is a favourite among all ethnic groups, says Mojisola Oyarekua, from the University of Science and Technology Ifaki-Ekiti (Usti) Nigeria. “It is regarded as a special delicacy and it is more expensive than equivalent weight of cow meat or fish. It is delicious and can be eaten as roasted, dried or boiled,” he says.


Rats may not be currently on the menu of your favourite neighbourhood restaurant, but as we move into a more globalised world with more adventurous diners, it is not unreasonable to think that rodents could one day feature on Western menus more frequently. Just give it a try. You might like it. After all, for some, it is the most delicious meat they have ever tasted.


http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20151207-the-countries-where-rats-are-on-the-menu

tonychristopher:
On 7 March every year, in a remote village in the hills of north-east India, the Adi tribe celebrates Unying-Aran, an unusual festival with rats as the culinary centrepiece. One of the Adi’s favourite dishes is a stew called bule-bulak oying, made with the rat’s stomach, intestines, liver, testes, foetuses, all boiled together with tails and legs plus some salt, chili and ginger.

Rats were eaten in China during the Tang dynasty (618-907 AD) and called “household deer”. One speciality eaten during the Tang dynasty was new-born rats stuffed with honey, “conveniently snatching them with chopsticks“, the authors say.

“In pre-European times [New Zealand’s] South Island was a major source of kiore, which were preserved and eaten in vast quantities, normally in early winter,” According to the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, the kiore was considered a delicacy served to visitors and even used as a currency, exchanged at ceremonies such as weddings.

Rats are eaten regularly in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, parts of the Philippines and Indonesia, Thailand, Ghana, China and Vietnam, says Grant Singleton, from the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines.

In Africa, some communities have a long tradition of eating rats. In Nigeria, for instance, the African giant rat is a favourite among all ethnic groups, says Mojisola Oyarekua, from the University of Science and Technology Ifaki-Ekiti (Usti) Nigeria. “It is regarded as a special delicacy and it is more expensive than equivalent weight of cow meat or fish. It is delicious and can be eaten as roasted, dried or boiled,” he says.


Rats may not be currently on the menu of your favourite neighbourhood restaurant, but as we move into a more globalised world with more adventurous diners, it is not unreasonable to think that rodents could one day feature on Western menus more frequently. Just give it a try. You might like it. After all, for some, it is the most delicious meat they have ever tasted.


http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20151207-the-countries-where-rats-are-on-the-menu

He's very wrong. There are many Nigerian ethnic groups that would never even fathom eating such a disgusting creature.

Fulaman198:


He's very wrong. There are many Nigerian ethnic groups that would never even fathom eating such a disgusting creature.

Show me the animal u have created. Why calling it disgusting? One man food is another man poison.

greatness22:
Show me the animal u have created. Why calling it disgusting? One man food is another man poison.

Fulani people don't eat rats sorry. Are you aware of the diseases found within rats? It's disgusting to think it makes sense to eat rats. It's very uncivilised.

Nigerians dy eat anything

rats,dog,cat,snake,monitor lizard,tortoise,squirrel,a particular specie of frog,bird,bat(even d ebolated ones sef)


naija i hail the,person musto survive ni

Khd95:
Nigerians dy eat anything

rats,dog,cat,snake,monitor lizard,tortoise,squirrel,a particular specie of frog,bird,bat(even d ebolated ones sef)


naija i hail the,person musto survive ni

Not all Nigerians, maybe Nigerians in your particular region

Perhaps that's why you ran mad, the disease from the food you eat. Haba!

Fulaman198:


Not all Nigerians, maybe Nigerians in your particular region

Perhaps that's why you ran mad, the disease from the food you eat. Haba!

oh ye fool,recieve sense b4 dec25

The ones I know are eaten in my area are not rats, but other field rodents such as Hare, Squirrels, grasscutter or bush Rabbits.
I know these westerners describe every rodent in the bush as a rat.

Fulaman198:


Fulani people don't eat rats sorry. Are you aware of the diseases found within rats? It's disgusting to think it makes sense to eat rats. It's very uncivilised.

I don't believe the OP meant the regular rat when he said giant rat. What is referred to as giant rat in some literature is actually the grasscutter (called nchi among the Igbo), same family as the rabbit, the squirrel,the hare and, well, the rat. Heard the meat is delicious (especially when taken with palm wine ). I've never been fortunate enough to taste it though.

Radoillo:


I don't believe the OP meant the regular rat when he said giant rat. What is referred to as giant rat in some literature is actually the grasscutter (called nchi among the Igbo), same family as the rabbit, the squirrel,the hare and, well, the rat. Heard the meat is delicious (especially when taken with palm wine ). I've never been fortunate enough to taste it though.

Loll, I think I'll stick to eating goat, beef and chicken my brother. No rodents for me whether it's a bush rat or nasty rat

Fulaman198:


Loll, I think I'll stick to eating goat, beef and chicken my brother. No rodents for me whether it's a bush rat or nasty rat

Not even rabbit?

Radoillo:


Not even rabbit?

I think I'm flexible (keyword being "think" I may give it a try one of these days.

As long as it is edible, and it is good for the body no problem

If cats eat them, then rats should be fine for us too. Cats are way pickier about their food than humans.

Can you please take Nigeria off that list. Just because some parts eat it doesn't mean the whole country does. Classic case of fallacy of composition.

Fulaman198:


Loll, I think I'll stick to eating goat, beef and chicken my brother. No rodents for me whether it's a bush rat or nasty rat

Lool! I can't even bring myself to eat goat.

MorrowCaligari:


Lool! I can't even bring myself to eat goat.

Loll why? Goat meat is delicious.

MorrowCaligari:
Can you please take Nigeria off that list. Just because some parts eat it doesn't mean the whole country does. Classic case of fallacy of composition.

I second this

what the op call rat in Nigerian perspective is better known as rabbit,

A rat in the perspective painted by the op is 'all inclusive' for ulterior motives.

MorrowCaligari:
Can you please take Nigeria off that list. Just because some parts eat it doesn't mean the whole country does. Classic case of fallacy of composition.

Nah! As long as its a place in Nigeria that her people eat Rats, that simple means Nigerian eat Rats

absoluteSuccess:
what the op call rat in Nigerian perspective is better known as rabbit,

A rat in the perspective painted by the op is 'all inclusive' for ulterior motives.

Rabbit is rabbit and rat is rat

Rabbit is the one with wooly body and long ears and rat have long tails and vermin


They are all rodents

I have seen people eat big rat in Lagos
Grasscutter is basically bush rat

Fulaman198:


Loll why? Goat meat is delicious.

Goats meat is great
Pork nice
Antelope sweet
Then tortoise is incredible
Bat is the sweetest
Beef just ordiary
Local dog meat is exquisite ask efik man
Snake meet is great from what the ondo folks say
Snail is good
Octopus meat is my best
Monkey meat ..I will try that
Rat meat ..I won't try that
Rabbit is okay

Sheep ,ramis ok

tonychristopher:


Goats meat is great
Pork nice



[s] Antelope sweet
Then tortoise is incredible
Bat is the sweetest [/s]
Beef just ordiary



[s] Local dog meat is exquisite ask efik man
Snake meet is great from what the ondo folks say [/s]
Snail is good



[s] Octopus meat is my best
Monkey meat ..I will try that [/s]



Rat meat ..I won't try that
Rabbit is okay

Sheep ,ramis ok

Funjosh:

Try antelope

tonychristopher:


Goats meat is great
Pork nice
Antelope sweet
Then tortoise is incredible
Bat is the sweetest
Beef just ordiary
Local dog meat is exquisite ask efik man
Snake meet is great from what the ondo folks say
Snail is good
Octopus meat is my best
Monkey meat ..I will try that
Rat meat ..I won't try that
Rabbit is okay

Sheep ,ramis ok

Most on the list are disgusting. You better not try monkey meat. It's like cannibalism if you do. It's almost like a lion trying to eat a leopard.

Humans share 99% common DNA with chimpanzees for instance. Please don't embarrass yourself and eat that rubbish

I just expect Nigerians to be more educated than this. Bush meat can give one diseases, Zoonotic diseases from bat, rat and other species is how some diseases are contracted.

I think that any human who fathoms eating a monkey or an ape needs to get their brains checked.

tonychristopher:

Try antelope

Nah! Its good to try new thing but not Antelope please

tonychristopher:

Rabbit is rabbit and rat is rat

Rabbit is the one with wooly body and long ears and rat have long tails and vermin


They are all rodents

I have seen people eat big rat in Lagos
Grasscutter is basically bush rat

I agree with you, rat is rat and rabbit is rabbit.

Rabbit is not part of our fauna, though it's called ehoro in Yoruba.

The Yoruba knows a difference between rat, (a house rat) and a bush rat.

eku, ekute ile: house rat.

Okete: giant rat, bush rat.

A bush rat is what the Igbo call ewi, if I'm correct.

If so, does eating a game as big as rabbit a 'culinary sin?'

what do you think?