Orozco knew eight recipes for rat and three for roaches. Some of the residents here knew even more. Some of those recipes were even pretty good.
— Terminator Salvation: From the Ashes
"You think you're tough for eating beans every day? There's half a million scarecrows in Denver who'd give anything for one mouthful of what you got. They've been under siege for about three months. They live on rats and sawdust bread and sometimes... on each other."
— Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Tanner, Red Dawn (1984)
I'd had a lovely lunch already, thank you every much. The rats are fat and sassy, this part of town.
Oh, Jesus, just kidding. What do I look like? I don't eat rats. You think this figure comes from eating street sludge like rats? Feral cats, now: that's where it's at. Yum yum, meow yum. Excellent diced and stir-fried, with tree ears and a sprinkling of hoisin sauce right at the end.
Oh, Jesus, just kidding. What do I look like? I don't eat rats. You think this figure comes from eating street sludge like rats? Feral cats, now: that's where it's at. Yum yum, meow yum. Excellent diced and stir-fried, with tree ears and a sprinkling of hoisin sauce right at the end.
— Rolling Steel: A Pre-Apocalypse Love Story
Vila: Well, there's always rodents of one sort or another.
Tarrant: I'm a growing lad, Vila. Rats are not the answer to my diet.
— Blake's 7, "Power"
Zack: I wonder what part of the chicken this is...
Melissa: The rat part.
"We called it "chicken" even though we knew it wasn't chicken."
—Gendry, Game of Thrones
"I'm hungry right now... Me and my friend who slept over there have not eaten in a long time. Food is getting harder to find. That's why lately we've caught rats and then cooked them or looked for stale food to survive. [...] Usually I catch rat and cook it as our food."
—Mrs. Goldie, Elevator Ritual
"Tomarro best not let Galeo see that rat. That's the only meat he puts in them sausages, I hear."
—Daena, The Winds of Winter
A burly older man seated nearby, his blond beard gone mostly white, raised his head. "Should have caught it," he said confidently. "Good eating on a rat."
A man who could have been his younger brother brought a hand to his chin. "Well, it would depend on the size of the rat to my mind..."
"True, true," agreed the other.
"And it's best to cook them well," continued the apparent expert on dining on pests.
Jaremy frowned. "I've no plan to eat rat!" he declared emphatically.
"Well, you best plan to get thin then," stated the older man. "Assuming you're going to keep not eating any food the Stags offer you."
A man who could have been his younger brother brought a hand to his chin. "Well, it would depend on the size of the rat to my mind..."
"True, true," agreed the other.
"And it's best to cook them well," continued the apparent expert on dining on pests.
Jaremy frowned. "I've no plan to eat rat!" he declared emphatically.
"Well, you best plan to get thin then," stated the older man. "Assuming you're going to keep not eating any food the Stags offer you."
—The King Nobody Wanted, Chapter 50
Barney tricked his mean ol' dad
And locked him in the cellar.
His mom never found out where he'd gone,
'Cause Barney didn't tell her.
There his dad spent his life,
Eating mice and gruel.
With every bite for fifty years,
He was sorry he'd been cruel.
And locked him in the cellar.
His mom never found out where he'd gone,
'Cause Barney didn't tell her.
There his dad spent his life,
Eating mice and gruel.
With every bite for fifty years,
He was sorry he'd been cruel.
— Calvin's story "The Dad Who Lived To Regret Being Mean To His Kid", Calvin and Hobbes
