Cambodians are scourging for rat meat as inflation hits poorer sections of Cambodia although the price of rat meat has quadrupled this year.
The country has witnessed exorbitant inflation at 37% and rat meat is being sold at 5,000 riel ($1.28) from 1,200 riel last year. A kilogram of beef costs much more at 20,000 riel a kg.
A spicy field rat dish with garlic thrown in has become a hot favorite in these hard times for the Cambodians.
If eating rats in this part of the world is amusing, I have learnt that rats are also eaten widely in Thailand, and a state government in eastern India this month encouraged its people to eat rats in an effort to battle soaring food prices and save grain stocks.
Eating rats in India!!! I am petrified. I thought India was supposed to be a land of Hindus and only chicken and mutton was consumed by them. Maybe I am wrong, oh well!!! In our part of the world, we kill them and chuck them out for the vultures to gobble them.
No wonder Ron Weasley’s rat turned into a villain in Wormtail.
