Vijay Prakash, the Principal Secretary of the Welfare Department of the Indian state of Bihar says that his proposal that the government popularize rodentophagia among the poor will reduce consumption of grain by pests. Presumably, they have more poor people than cats in Bihar.
Hey, once they've filled up on rats, the poor won't eat as much of the grain either, so bang, zoom! Double prizes!
Because they have "almost no bones", Vijay says, rats will be a tasty and nutritious protein-packed delicacy for the poverty-stricken. The problem, it seems, is that poor people just didn't have the right recipes. Luckily, he's on the case, and he envisions a day when his scrumptious Rat Vindaloo will be so popular that they will have to resort to rat farming to keep up with demand.His next plan for the poor? Encouraging them to catch venomous snakes. I wish I were kidding. Hey, didn't he work for the Regan administration?
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Mmmmm..... tandoori rat..... rat curry...
Hey, maybe they can use the old Black Sabbath song "Rat Salad" as their theme song.
Didn't they try to get the poor people in Lousiana to eat nutria a few years back? I think they may have even trotted out Prudhome and made him cook one all Cajuned and blackened and shit on tv.
Everything tastes better with a theme song, Johnny.
You know, Vikki, I read something like that in (I think) a National Geographic article on Cuba. The writer's guide pointed out a nutria in the swamp that they were going through and made a comment to the effect that the government encouraging the growth of the nutria population in case there was a conflict with the United States. When the writer asked about it, the guide said that they could be used as food if the United States imposed a blockade. Whether the guide was pulling the writer's leg or not is up to the reader to decide.
You are no longer the Firecrotch.
*yoink*
Did you just yoink my crotch?
Yes I did. Want me to do it again? Then it's offically cybersex.
Wait... you're a cyborg?
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