June 01, 2004

Mouse-eating in Zambia. Includes recipes.
posted by Slithy_Tove 20 years ago
  • Love to eat them mousies Mousie's what I love to eat. Bite they little heads off Nibble on they tiny feet. -- B. Kliban
  • I can't wait to see what the world of industrial agriculture has to offer the Zambians. Giant Mouse Farms, anyone?
  • Includes recipes. Do we have an entry here for least favorite cuisines of the world?
  • There's a soup I've always wanted to try (read about it in a Mike Royko column), but never found served anywhere. I believe the name is czernina, and its major ingredient is duck's blood. Royko told of an Irish Catholic friend of his who didn't find out what it was until he was halfway through the bowl. He was so disturbed afterward that he asked his priest if he'd committed a sin. The priest replied that as long as it was the blood of a duck, and not the blood of a Protestant, he was just fine.
  • I've tried blood sausage and Filipino "chocolate meat." Both left a nasty taste in my mouth that I couldn't get rid of for hours. Maybe duck's blood is more delicate than swine's. I was really pleasantly surprised at the link. Thought it would make me go "eeew!", but it's charmingly written and full of customs and taboos involved in mouse hunting and cuisine. And, it makes it clear that mouse protein is about all the locals can afford to eat.
  • Lo.
  • Beeswacky, my dear, you have made mouse meat sound positivly succulent. Recipe: Catch mouse. Put in freezer for twenty-four hours. Drench in chocolate syrup. Mousesicles!
  • Mousesicles! Like Rocky Mountain oysters, are they, BlueHorse?
  • Rat on a stick! Fresh rat on a stick! There ya go sonny, off ya goey.. Rat on a stick!!
  • It's funny that when it comes to nasty food, the phrase "delicacy" is always used as much as "tastes like chicken".
  • now i wanna know what kind of mouse those are. because in my lab, we study these guys, and we've gotten email from africa from a guy who says his tribe considers them a delicacy, and would we be interested in trying to raise them for food...? (we call our guys rats. unstriped nile grass rats, specifically. but some mammalogy books call them mice. they're sort of small, about 50 grams or less...)
  • ...I wanna know what kind of mouse these are... Mouse dinner. Mouse victims.