The Register® — Biting the hand that feeds IT

Thais rate rat 'better than chicken'

Booming sales for murine munchies

Free whitepaper – The security implications of Web 2.0

Thailand's roadside fast-food vendors are enjoying booming sales of the country's latest fave dish - rat.

According to the Beeb, rat has long been on the menu in Thailand's poorer north, but is now widely available for discerning gourmets countrywide. Customers can get their rat uncooked, or poached, fried, grilled or baked, and stump as much as 150 baht (£2.30) a kilo for the privilege.

Rat seller Sala Prompim told AP: "It's tastier than other meats - nothing can compete with rat," adding that the liver and thigh offered the best dining experience.

One satisfied customer confirmed: "It's better than chicken. It all depends what you like, but it's a normal meat like any other."

Prompim, who claims to sell as much as 100kg of rat on a good day, stressed that his rodents were captured in the countryside, not in Thailand's cities. He said: "They are definitely clean."

Sadly, the BBC doesn't offer an answer to the obvious question: what does rat taste like? While guinea pig and snake are reckoned to be a bit like chicken, and humans obviously offer a bacon-like experience, we have no data available on rat. Anyone eaten out in Thailand recently? ®

See what The Register's experts have to say on application security

Don’t Miss

silverlightSilverlight 3: closer to what client-side .NET should have been

Review Microsoft cranks it against Adobe

Reg black vulture logoWeb application security: It's scary out there!

Regcast Fight them on the breaches

Microsoft Office logoOffice 2010 tech preview: Expect the expected

Review And some web apps (eventually)

Sign up, sign up for The Register IT security newsletter

Narrowcasting for the email classes