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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1706, 22 December 1919, Page 5

RATS AS FOOD FOR MEN. A Surrey gamokooper who suggests that rats are very good in pies was, no doubt, alluding to the country-bred ones, which HVo principally on cereals, says Lloyds' News. Those have been eaten in various districts bv the peasantry from time immemorial. In Nottingham, moro especially, rat-pies wero once very popular, and ono well known inn near the county town was famous far and wide for its rat suppers. Many Leicestershire country folk, too, specialise in rat pasties. Only the young rats from the wheat stacks are used in the composition of these queer dainties, nnd their tiny, tender carcases are ' interlarded with rnsners of bacon and sliced hard-boiled eggs, the whole liberally flavoured with sago and onions. So short of water was Cowdenbeath, FifefcWro, during September that the townsfolk Wero (Jc'pendont on water from a conl pit, and one tradesman suy» ho washed his fuce in lomoiiado,