I have eaten wild rats in Laos and they were quite good. Lab rats are a
different story. Some years ago I held a rat BBQ here at Weazelworld. My
neighbor was the largest rat farmer in the world, but he wouldn't sell any to
me
when he found out we were going to eat them, a liability issue I suppose.
That meant I had to go to Hogtown Herps, a decidedly down market place. We
got jumbos and large pinkies, almost fuzzies. The jumbos were barbecued in
the traditional manner and tasted terrible. The pinkies were rolled on the
grill, they looked and tasted exactly like fat little weenies. The problem
was that I had failed to gut them. So it came to pass that someone was
passing around a tray of pinkies fresh off the grill. I had learned that the
head and thorax were good; whereas the abdomen was not, so I bit down on the
forward section and a jet of hot rat shit squirted out and hit a passing
woman directly in the eye. She was not pleased.
And I agree, snakes have dry stringy white meat that tastes nothing like
chicken. In China I was once served a bowl of three snake with cat meat
soup. The cat meat predominated which saved the soup.
Sleaze
