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“Chinchillidas!”
Fairly common in Vietnam
they forgot to mention fallout
Isn’t that just mole rat meat though? The Elder Scrolls series has actual “rat meat”
well now that you mention it, possibly. I clearly need to replay fallout I and II again. I know planescape has rat (cranium rat to be precise) meat for sure since I just replayed it.
A recipe for grilled rats, Bordeaux-style, calls for the use of alcoholic rats who live in wine cellars. These rats are skinned and eviscerated, brushed with a thick sauce of olive oil and crushed shallots, and grilled over a fire of broken wine barrels.
They really don’t like it when their wine goes to waste