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Do the Japanese eat rat?

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Do the Japanese eat rat?
disgusting, is it true or a rumor? also can someone post a piture of the rat as food, also a dog as food?
 
Rat was eaten in Europe during medaevil times. Ray Mears cooked one one of his show not long back on BBC. Just chucked it in the fire to roast. You'll need a couple to make a decent serving for one though. As an everyday food, I don't think the Japanese, along with most other countries, eat rat. If your talking of dogs, then that is more associated with Korea and parts of China.
 
A slightly gloomy post ....

I once knew a guy who had eaten rat, quite regularly ... in Japan!

Unfortunately, he was a private soldier ("sapper")in the British "Royal Engineers" at the time, and not in Japan of his own choice.

It was 1944.

Ça - c'est la vie!

ニ淡ニ停?。ニ停?
 
oh no,,oh no,,oh no,,,
rats,,dogs,,,such a scary,disgusting food that ppl should never eat,,
huhuhu,,,
 
Wow wow...what a big open door we have here! :) Permit me to open the debate!
Shirahime: why is eating well-cooked rat meet more disgusting than eating beef meat, for exemple?

PS: I may ask as I've personnaly never eat rat meat...and I will probably never do so, even if I had the chance to...Just having now a devil's advocate mind ;)
 
well,,
since rats are dirty,,(living in a place with dark, stinky environments)
they are sure don't lighten up my eating mood,,
just thinking of where they came from makes me,,*ugh*,,, :p

as long as the meat is well served and higienic, why not?
 
Haha,,sure! Nobody wants to know they are EATING rats,,,
after they recognize it, they will regret what they eat forever,,,hahahaha,,,
scaaaaryyy,,,
 
The Japanese don't eat rats, you wont find some backroom restaraunt where with a wink and a national in arm, you'll be escorted back to the inner-sanctum where they will serve you up a taboo gormet rat dish.

The Viet Namese eat rat, at bars while drinking beer. As to why someone would maybe not want to eat rat, remember the plague?
 
It's amazing this question is being asked in this age of higher education (in some countries, regions, cities, or households, that is). Of course, Japanese do not eat rat for food; rather rats are terminated as pest (like roaches, ants, and etc). When I was in college in USA, I have been asked so many similar is-this-for-real type of questions by American students.
 
yukio_neko^_o said:
As to why someone would maybe not want to eat rat, remember the plague?
The plague wasn't due to rats, but to fleas, IIRC. If the rats are kept like other domesticated animals, this shouldn't pose any problem.
 
bossel said:
The plague wasn't due to rats, but to fleas, IIRC. If the rats are kept like other domesticated animals, this shouldn't pose any problem.
Sometimes CDC puts emphasis on the rat, reading again now, mostly on the flea... A week or two ago I sat down and watched 5 or 6 different short CDC films about various diseases and scary things that people could use to try to infect cities... (why, I don't know---?). Still, the fleas are always listed as 'flea-rats', no rats, no fleas!
 
The only rat (rodent) I would keep as a pet will be chinchilla (I have this as a pet actually). The regular house rats look hideous and are the disease carrier.
 
yukio_neko^_o said:
Still, the fleas are always listed as 'flea-rats', no rats, no fleas!
True (although this counts for other rodents as well), but as I said: As long as you keep them like other domesticated animals, it shouldn't pose much of a problem. I doubt that many of the people who keep rats as pets get the plague.
 
When I visited Japan actually I didn't see any rat/mouse food there, I'm not sure whether they eat rat/mouse, but we are Chinese (esp. in China mainland) and Vietnamnese do :sick:

On last January 2006 there were a very serious problem happened that the meatball (bakso) in Indonesia are made by rat meat also formalin (formalin: Meaning and Definition of), a kind of chemical.

So almost all of meatball restaurant and sellers were getting suffer on last January, esp. regarding rat meat problem. Some news about ingredients of meatball (rat meat) you can see in these following link : :eek:

  1. http://wfan.com/water/watercooler_story_011143159.html
  2. http://www.meatriarchy.com/?p=466

Finally, I heard based on research that formalin is not dangerous to be eaten in some degree precentage, it is only dangerous to breathe formalin.

Any friends can explain whether rat meat is dangerous for our body or rats are no problem to be eaten?

I thought I really love to eat meatball so far... and till now I'm still continuing to consume it, who cares about formalin & rat meats, hehehe :p
 
Ebichu_chan said:
When I visited Japan actually I didn't see any rat/mouse food there, I'm not sure whether they eat rat/mouse, but we are Chinese (esp. in China mainland) and Vietnamnese do :sick:
On last January 2006 there were a very serious problem happened that the meatball (bakso) in Indonesia are made by rat meat also formalin (formalin: Meaning and Definition of), a kind of chemical.
So almost all of meatball restaurant and sellers were getting suffer on last January, esp. regarding rat meat problem. Some news about ingredients of meatball (rat meat) you can see in these following link : :eek:
  1. http://wfan.com/water/watercooler_story_011143159.html
  2. http://www.meatriarchy.com/?p=466
Finally, I heard based on research that formalin is not dangerous to be eaten in some degree precentage, it is only dangerous to breathe formalin.
Any friends can explain whether rat meat is dangerous for our body or rats are no problem to be eaten?
I thought I really love to eat meatball so far... and till now I'm still continuing to consume it, who cares about formalin & rat meats, hehehe :p
:eek: I had no clue about this!
 
Dutch friends of my family have eaten rats, but only when they were caught up in the seige of Arnhem at the end of WWII! They don't exactly recommend it....
 
I heard Belgians eat so-called water-rats, and they call 'em "waterkonijnen" which means water-rabbits.. Any truth in this rumour? I do know of personal experience that they eat "kop", which means head. It is a meaty paste made of the insides of a pig's head.. It was pretty tasty actually!
 
I think Malcom X said that pork is a cross between rat and dog, or something like that. So, I guess you could say that Japanese eat rat, and dog.
It is a meaty paste made of the insides of a pig's head.. It was pretty tasty actually!
The first time I read this, I misread this to be, "made of insects inside a pig's head..."
I'm glad it did not say that.

Didn't Japanese people eat monkey brains once?
 
Gaijinian said:
I think Malcom X said that pork is a cross between rat and dog, or something like that. So, I guess you could say that Japanese eat rat, and dog.

The first time I read this, I misread this to be, "made of insects inside a pig's head..."
I'm glad it did not say that.

Didn't Japanese people eat monkey brains once?

No that's Koreans.

Anyway didn't people eat rats during the Second World War? Not just in Europe I would think.

When there is nothing to eat and people need to survive people eat anything. In Africa now they have famine and they eat termites to survive.
 
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