Not only did Parisians eat rats and other vermin during the siege of Paris, but they paid very high prices for them. A full-sized rat cost 10 francs. As a rat doesn't weigh much over one pound, it must then have been a great delicacy.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 91, 19 April 1933, Page 3
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