Comments on: Credit Crunch: Cambodian Rats Bite Back

By: sam

sam — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:45:02 +0000

it’s all cultural really,
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/06/0628_040628_tvrats.html

By: chenier

chenier — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:01:24 +0000

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…

By: sam

sam — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:48:15 +0000

not even chocolate dipped ?

By: chenier

chenier — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:42:02 +0000

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…

By: sam

sam — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:35:15 +0000

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 ?

By: sam

sam — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:26:50 +0000

ratatouille of course. why didn’t i think of that before.

By: sam

sam — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:21:03 +0000

wot, no clisply flied lat wif hectchup? it’ll go marvellously with some monster kong unplurified water i’m sure.

By: chenier

chenier — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:04:58 +0000

That’s very kind of you, Sam, but I’ll pass on that.

No tomato ketchup…

By: sam

sam — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:51:10 +0000

don’t suppose anyone’s interested in somec tasty rat meat recipes. ?
http://bsornot.whipnet.net/priceless/rat4dinner2.html