User:Major Bonkers/Rat-eating in the Royal Navy
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“ | Sir Sidney, among many peculiar eccentricities, asserted that rats fed cleaner, and were better eating, than pigs or ducks; and, agreeably to his wish, a dish of these beautiful vermin were caught daily with fish-hooks, well baited, in the provision hold, for the ship was infested with them, and served up at the captain's table; the sight of them alone took off the keen edge of my appetite. [1] | ” |
Adkins [2] asserts that [...] it was not uncommon for seamen to cook and eat rats to supplement their rations: what was unusual was serving them at the captain's table.
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