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Rat Meat In Demand As Inflation Bites

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Tom
- 81 days ago - reuters.com

The price of rat meat has quadrupled in Cambodia this year as inflation has put other meat beyond the reach of poor people. Spicy field rat dishes with garlic thrown in have become particularly popular at a time when beef costs 20,000 riel a kg.

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Joycey B. (528)

Thursday August 28, 2008, 5:55 pm
Now I'm sick.

June Marshall (409)

Thursday August 28, 2008, 6:00 pm
GROSS! I could barf!

Michael Angel (37)

Thursday September 4, 2008, 4:44 am
In Viet-nam too
There are a lot of rats in SE Asia.
is anyone going to tell me they are endangered?

Rat meat in demand as inflation bites - Yahoo! News
The price of rat meat has quadrupled in Cambodia this year as inflation has put ... that Cambodia supplied more than a tonne of live rats a day to Vietnam.

Rat on a stick is also very popular in Ankh-Morpork