Thai Fast Food(pic)

Posted: 12/1/2007 6:35:20 AM EDT

A villager cleans rats north of Bangkok, Thailand, Nov. 1 before selling them to roadside food stands. Struggling to make ends meet in their pest-infested villages, some Thai farmers are getting a cash boost from "rat money."

Posted: 12/1/2007 6:37:03 AM EDT

[#1]

YUMMY ! ! !

Posted: 12/1/2007 6:37:19 AM EDT

[#2]

That ain't the Thai food I know and love...

Posted: 12/1/2007 6:38:42 AM EDT

[#3]

Posted: 12/1/2007 6:39:17 AM EDT

[#4]

9.5

No beer or weapon.

Posted: 12/1/2007 6:39:44 AM EDT

[#5]

Rat.....it's what's for dinner.

Posted: 12/1/2007 6:40:09 AM EDT

[#6]

They also eat snails and bugs.

Posted: 12/1/2007 6:40:30 AM EDT

[#7]

I will try anything ONCE, I love those bizzare food shows. I have eaten turkey nuts, sheep nuts, cow nuts, snails...........................I know that's not much, but I would try some crazy shit like bugs or rodents.

Posted: 12/1/2007 6:42:05 AM EDT

[#8]

I've been told rat tastes good.

Posted: 12/1/2007 6:43:30 AM EDT

[#9]

Thanks for the reminder.

I need to pray this morning and thank God I was born in a 1st world country.

BBQ rat

there's no telling what is in that shit.

Posted: 12/1/2007 6:53:01 AM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
I will try anything ONCE, I love those bizzare food shows. I have eaten turkey nuts, sheep nuts, cow nuts, snails...........................I know that's not much, but I would try some crazy shit like bugs or rodents.

So you'll eat the nuts off of anything that moves, but you ain't touchin' rat meat?

Posted: 12/1/2007 6:56:20 AM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:

Quoted:
I will try anything ONCE, I love those bizzare food shows. I have eaten turkey nuts, sheep nuts, cow nuts, snails...........................I know that's not much, but I would try some crazy shit like bugs or rodents.

So you'll eat the nuts off of anything that moves, but you ain't touchin' rat meat?

I didn't say that. I WILL try anyhting ONCE. If it is good I will add it to my WILL eat again category.

Posted: 12/1/2007 6:56:21 AM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:
That ain't the Thai food I know and love...

as far as you know

Posted: 12/1/2007 6:59:30 AM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:

Quoted:
I will try anything ONCE, I love those bizzare food shows. I have eaten turkey nuts, sheep nuts, cow nuts, snails...........................I know that's not much, but I would try some crazy shit like bugs or rodents.

So you'll eat the nuts off of anything that moves, but you ain't touchin' rat meat?

He said would, not wouldn't.

As for me - sewer rat might taste like pumpkin pie but I'll never know because I wouldn't eat the nasty mother fucker.

Posted: 12/1/2007 7:01:04 AM EDT

[#14]

Rat; the other white meat.

Can't be much worse than a corn dog.

Posted: 12/1/2007 7:06:54 AM EDT

[#15]

don't look so fast anymore, do they?

Posted: 12/1/2007 7:14:42 AM EDT

[#16]

I dunno, considering how disease-resistant rats themselves are, the meat might be safer than, say, pork.

I'd have to be pretty hungry before I'd eat one, though, and I'd want to make sure it was cooked thoroughly.

Posted: 12/1/2007 7:17:04 AM EDT

[#17]

-5 for no gun
-5 for no beer
-2 for no knife
-1 for no napkin
-5 for not being cooked properly
Fuck it, -3 for no stapler
& -3 for no measuring device

-24 Worst dinner pic ever!

Posted: 12/1/2007 7:49:50 AM EDT

[#18]

I live in Thailand 6 months a year. I don't believe this story.

Yeah, they eat weird stuff. Insects like you wouldn't believe. Not because they have to, they WANT to.

But rat? Nope. They don't eat rat, horse, dog, monkey. Not unless you maybe get into the jungle areas bordering on Laos and Burma (Myanmar). Most thais would be as disgusted by the rat photo as we are.

Posted: 12/1/2007 7:51:21 AM EDT

[#19]

Link please, I need it to send to somebody.

Posted: 12/1/2007 8:51:42 AM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
I live in Thailand 6 months a year. I don't believe this story.

Yeah, they eat weird stuff. Insects like you wouldn't believe. Not because they have to, they WANT to.

www.roadfood.com/insider/photos/231.jpg

But rat? Nope. They don't eat rat, horse, dog, monkey. Not unless you maybe get into the jungle areas bordering on Laos and Burma (Myanmar). Most thais would be as disgusted by the rat photo as we are.

That looks mighty tasty.

Posted: 12/1/2007 9:05:26 AM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
Link please, I need it to send to somebody.

http://www.aolcdn.com/aolnews_photos/01/06/20071107162709990027

Right click on any photo.
select properties
expand the box if need be then, highlight the location address, use copy paste

works anywhere on the net.

ETA: photo

Posted: 12/1/2007 9:08:35 AM EDT

[#22]

I like pan fried tree rat and gravy so I would try it.

I don't know if I would eat one that has been in garbage and may carry a disease a human could catch. But if it were out in the jungle away from town and the rat had been eating things other than rubbage why not.

Posted: 12/1/2007 9:09:48 AM EDT

[#23]

I'd eat it.

Posted: 12/1/2007 9:11:05 AM EDT

[#24]

Are those peel and eat?

Posted: 12/1/2007 9:16:14 AM EDT

[#25]

So much of Thailand is going muslim these days that I hesitate to think they'd eat rat (since muslims basically stick to a levitican diet), though who knows what they'd sell to the tourists....

Posted: 12/1/2007 9:28:06 AM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:
So much of Thailand is going muslim these days that I hesitate to think they'd eat rat (since muslims basically stick to a levitican diet), though who knows what they'd sell to the tourists....

Islam is growing in popularity in Thailand? Interesting.

Posted: 12/1/2007 9:33:00 AM EDT

[#27]

How much worse would those be than squirrels? I know a lot of folks who have eaten lots of squirrels, I have eaten a few myself.

Posted: 12/1/2007 9:35:25 AM EDT

[#28]

Weirdest thing i've eaten so far has been raccoon. It wasn't very good; reminded me of tough and greasy pork chops. I consider rodents to be "survival food". If a guy is hungry enough, he'll eat anything, but it wouldn't be my first choice.

Posted: 12/1/2007 9:37:53 AM EDT

[#29]

Err yeah.

Actually, when you are sitting in an outdoor bar listening to music or watching the muay thai boxing and one of those carts is pushed past it SMELLS great. Damn. I'm convinced the human body is programmed to like anything fried

Posted: 12/1/2007 9:40:20 AM EDT

[#30]

I don't know where he heard that. There is a section of south thailand that borders Malaysia that has some muslims but there is no change happening elsewhere so far as I can tell. It is a VERY buddhist nation.

Posted: 12/1/2007 9:41:41 AM EDT

[#31]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Link please, I need it to send to somebody.

http://www.aolcdn.com/aolnews_photos/01/06/20071107162709990027

Right click on any photo.
select properties
expand the box if need be then, highlight the location address, use copy paste

works anywhere on the net.

ETA: photo
photos.ar15.com/Galleries/Avatars/29486.jpg

but I think he wants a link to the whole story