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Kitchen Fresh Plague

by Lee

My answer to the bird flu would be to stop eating birds.  Cambodia has put their own spin on that idea.

Rats are the other white meat—at least for some people in northwest Cambodia.

Fear of catching bird flu has prompted some Cambodians to give up eating chicken.

The newspaper Light of Cambodia reports fresh rat is fetching a premium at local markets. Villagers catch the rodents in nearby rice fields and sell them for up 35 cents each.

One vendor reports selling 130 pounds of rat meat a day.

Apparently booze helps. The paper reports the rat meat is often eaten as a snack while drinking.

Mmm, mmm, mmm!  Deep fried rat in the Colonel’s original recipe, with 11 herbs and spices.  Just like what we grew up with, only filthier and with more diseases.  I wonder what they’ll eat when they find out that rats transmit bubonic plague.

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