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Would you eat Rat if it tasted like Pumpkin Pie?

Jayson1

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This is of course a funny line from "Pulp Fiction" but I think it is a good example to ask how much importance do you place the taste of food over what you are willing to eat? Is taste so important you would eat things that look gross or you think is gross just because of how it taste's? Seeing as how most of us still eat animals we already have basically lowered the bar a little bit on the issue but I still find it interesting that we still have some animals we won't eat but some we will eat. I mean I even feel that way. I don't think I good eat a cat or dog or insects. Some people eat frog legs but to me that seems kind of gross yet I have eaten crawl dads.

As for the literal question is I wouldn't eat that rat. Granted I don't like pumpkin pie that much so to me that is no big loss. I do eat bacon and ham though but I disagree they are filthy animals. So they like to roll around on the mud. When I was a kid I sometimes liked to play in the mud.


Jason
 
I've eaten grasshoppers, but rats...that's a line I couldn't cross. No matter what they taste like.

Remember, when in extremity, humans will eat each other.

I'll take a rat burger any day. And there will ALWAYS be rats.
Unless you're in Donner Pass...

:mallory: :wtf: :barf:
 
I'm not very squeamish so I don't think rat would bother me, pumpkin pie flavor or not. I'd eat horse with no qualms too. Not crazy about horses. I'm more fond of rats than horses, actually. Not that I'd have to like an animal to eat it. Or not eat it.
 
Cultural inhibitions make all kinds of things off limits in one place and fine in another. The health and diet of the critter is far more important than what it is.
 
I've eaten grasshoppers, but rats...that's a line I couldn't cross. No matter what they taste like.
Hell, I'll try anything once, but I'd be more squeamish about eating grasshoppers than eating rats. A rat is a mammal, after all, and a grasshopper is a . . . BUG.

On the other hand, I like lobster, which is an arthropod -- basically a big aquatic bug.
 
Many of us have this knee-jerk reaction that eating rat or other rodentia would be unhygienic and prone to make you sick and that it would probably taste disgusting. But, objectively speaking, is it really?

Kor
 
Jayson, agirl you know is waiting for you to notice her...
and she doesn't like pumkin pie either.

Heads up, my friend
 
Many of us have this knee-jerk reaction that eating rat or other rodentia would be unhygienic and prone to make you sick and that it would probably taste disgusting. But, objectively speaking, is it really?

Kor

If rats are bred clean and healthy, their meat is apparently pretty good. I've eaten rabbit before, I'm not sure how close they are in terms of texture or taste but it was fine.
 
If rats are bred clean and healthy, their meat is apparently pretty good. I've eaten rabbit before, I'm not sure how close they are in terms of texture or taste but it was fine.
I have enjoyed rabbit on several occasions myself.

Kor
 
I can't wait for our Xmas market to arrive again, they have a burger stand that makes them from a lot of different meats. The wild boar one is so good.
 
Hell, I'll try anything once, but I'd be more squeamish about eating grasshoppers than eating rats. A rat is a mammal, after all, and a grasshopper is a . . . BUG.

The grasshoppers were actually very good. I'd almost do it again, but they are extremely SPICY. Probably the spiciest thing I ever ate.

If you want to try some, just go to any Seattle Mariners home game. I think it's the biggest seller at the concession stands. :)

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