LILONGWE, Malawi – Cooked, salted or dried, field mice strung on sticks are sold as a popular delicacy in Malawi markets and roadside stalls.
The mice are hunted in corn fields after the harvest when they have grown plump on a diet of grains, fruits, grass and the odd insect. The most widely eaten species is known locally as Kapuku, gray in color and with a shorter tail than the more common rat.
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What accounts for taste?
Our western taste buds stand up in protest on our tongues and move them to verbally denounce the very idea of eating rodents.
But are not lobsters and crabs essentially the cockroaches of the sea?
And aren't they sold for a premium price?
And I love escargot and raw oysters!
I also eat swine.
Yet, the thought of eating a mouse causes me some disconcerted reluctance to entertain it (the thought that is, not the mouse).
It is conditioning. They are both cute and disgusting depending on ones perspective.
Just how odd is this? The people of Malawi have found food in days of hunger that nourishes and delights them.
What it raises are questions of how we decide what is normal.
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