Off the Cuff / My Other Journal

EWWW! Rat meat!

I just read this in Yahoo News.

"As tasty as a truckload of rats

BEIJING (Reuters) - Live rats are being trucked from central China, suffering a plague of a reported 2 billion rodents displaced by a flooded lake, to the south to end up in restaurant dishes, Chinese media reported."

It seems a flood has hit Northern China where the rats have abounded. So they are being brought by truckloads to the Southern chic(!) areas.

There is more...from the Chinese news:
"Guangzhou people are rich and like to eat exotic things, so business is very good," it quoted a vendor as saying,"

I like exotic things, too, but not that exotic!

Now I'll go through the day, saying "eeeewww!"

I guess some in India are saying the same "eeeewww!" about our butcher shops.