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Would you eat rodents?Posted Mar 23rd 2007 2:45PM by Sarah J. GimFiled under: Dinner, South America, Beef, Food OdditiesIf you think about it, there are a lot of things that when described with different words or to anyone who isn't familiar with them, are kind of unappetizing. Raw fish? Fish eggs? Near-raw bird livers? What about Bambi? Bugs Bunny? Sushi, caviar, foie gras, venison, and rabbit. They don't sound all that unappetizing to me, except the caviar and foie gras, of course.What about "rodents?" Apparently, in a region of Venezuela, rodents are a true delicacy. In other South American countries, capybara, the world's largest rodent (does this make anyone else think of The Princess Bride?) is hunted for its hide. In Venezuela, the meat of the capybara can get prices that are almost double that of beef. Part of that price is how difficult it is to hunt the capybara, and part of it is the flavor, which is "more like rabbit than chicken, though when dried with sea salt in Venezuela it acquires a fishy flavor." Hey, as long as we don't start making sewer rats a delicacy here in the US, fine by me.More on, uh, rodents:Peruvian Cuy to debut in a store near youNutria, the other white swamp ratCooking with groundhogs
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