http://www.foxnews.com/world/2...as-tasty-snacks.html


Link has photo of the children selling the mice on sticks.



Zimbabwe kids hunt mice and sell them as tasty snacks

By TSVANGIRAYI MUKWAZHI, Associated Press



CHIDZA, Zimbabwe – With headlamps to peer through the darkness, children in rural Chidza village in central Zimbabwe scamper through the night to trap mice, which they roast and sell to motorists on the road to neighboring South Africa.

Considered a delicacy, the field mice are hunted in cornfields where they have grown plump on the grains, grass and wild fruits.

The children use old-fashioned traps — wooden rectangles with spring loaded bars — and bait them with seeds of grain. They strategically place the traps on little paths used by the mice as they look for food.


Sometimes within minutes of laying the trap a mouse is caught. The snapping sound of a trap alerts the kids who rush to retrieve their catch. On a good night the children say they can catch between 50 and 100 mice. The night hunting comes at a risk as snakes are also on the prowl for the rodents.

By the end of their trapping adventures the children will have the mice heaped in dishes. The mice are then roasted over an open fire, salted and left to dry before finding their way on the market. Standing by the roadside, the children attract travelers by holding up skewers of the mice. They sell 10 mice for a dollar and say they are doing a brisk business.

Wrap in bacon and a dab of Tabasco and good to go.

Not sure what's worse....

1- the thought biting into one
2- the thought of seeing a snake

And we have a generation (or more) of kids here who think they are above flipping burgers for a job...

probably better for you than these processed'meat sticks' bought at our gas stations. Those things are made from God-knows-what meat swept up from the floor of the processing plant.

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Originally posted by BaxterB:
And we have a generation (or more) of kids here who think they are above flipping burgers for a job...

Exactly!

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Originally posted by Matt Norman:
probably better for you than these processed'meat sticks' bought at our gas stations. Those things are made from God-knows-what meat swept up from the floor of the processing plant.

While I have not been reduced to the level of eating one yet...I will add a +1 to the above.

I think I'll stick to Gemsbok fillets wrapped in bacon, thanks.

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Manager

I've eaten rat before, wasn't great.

I'd employ any of those kids to work in my restaurant.

What's the trophy fee on a good hard bossed Zimbo field mouse?

Depends on the length and circumference of the tail. . . .

Saw this driving through Zambia, kids on side of road selling cooked rats on a stick. still mad I didn't get a picture!

Maybe they can add a list for the "Super tiny 10."

Let’s see: Mice, rats, Dung Beetles (must be pushing dung when taken), four varieties of lizard (one of which must be the African Fire Skink) , two varieties of Gecko, and a king baboon tarantula.

That might be a dip and pack fee I can afford.

We saw the kids selling critter on a stick in Zim and Moz. Bigger ones though, may have been nice tasty cane rats.
Our PH said they leave feet on so you can tell what they are.

M

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Originally posted by Matt Norman:
probably better for you than these processed'meat sticks' bought at our gas stations. Those things are made from God-knows-what meat swept up from the floor of the processing plant.

You are not talking about slim Jim's, I know you arent!

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Slim Jims = Food of The Gods!

Survival rations of the first water!


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