Credit Crunch: Cambodian Rats Bite Back
CREDIT Crunch news of the day: Rat meat in demand as inflation bites.
The price of rat meat has quadrupled in Cambodia this year as inflation has put other meat beyond the reach of poor people, officials said on Wednesday.
With consumer price inflation at 37 percent according to the latest central bank estimate, demand has pushed a kilogram of rat meat up to around 5,000 riel (69 pence) from 1,200 riel last year. Spicy field rat dishes with garlic thrown in have become particularly popular at a time when beef costs 20,000 riel a kg.
The credit crunch is biting…
Posted: 4th, September 2008 | In: Credit Crunch, Money Comments (9) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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September 4th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
it’s all cultural really,
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/06/0628_040628_tvrats.html
September 4th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Particularly not chocolate dipped; there would always be that awareness that once the chocolate’s gone you are left with a rat.
Which, now I come to think of it, is a useful definition of a disastrous affair…
September 4th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
not even chocolate dipped ?
September 4th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
I think I have been permanently put off the idea by Terry Pratchett’s ‘rat on a stick’; somehow I just can’t embrace my inner dwarf…
September 4th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
anyway, i’ve heard it tastes like chicken, not that i’m keen to find out though and you shouldn’t mock the poor anyway, and it might be alright with ketchup or something. what’s cambodian for avec ketchup siv vous plait ?
September 4th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
ratatouille of course. why didn’t i think of that before.
September 4th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
wot, no clisply flied lat wif hectchup? it’ll go marvellously with some monster kong unplurified water i’m sure.
September 4th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
That’s very kind of you, Sam, but I’ll pass on that.
No tomato ketchup…
September 4th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
don’t suppose anyone’s interested in somec tasty rat meat recipes. ?
http://bsornot.whipnet.net/priceless/rat4dinner2.html