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		It turns out a controversial Chinese restaurant wasn't really serving koala meat to customers. It was bamboo rat meat (couriermail.com.au)		40
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Sybarite

2011-11-11 08:48:22 AM

They served rat cake, rat sorbet, rat pudding, and strawberry tart.

RexTalionis

2011-11-11 09:28:09 AM

How some Australian confused this:
upload.wikimedia.org

With this:

Is beyond me. Should Australia revoke the guy's passport?

Sid_6.7

2011-11-11 09:56:45 AM

RexTalionis: How some Australian confused this:

I'm guessing that alcohol was a factor.

lunchinlewis

2011-11-11 10:35:17 AM

Looks like a nutria. Plenty of Cajuns eat those.

rib246

2011-11-11 10:35:21 AM

I think the restaurant was lying.... Is it a coincedence that the popularity of Chinese Restuarants goes up and stray cat and dog populations go down...

/cliche

Wardrobe_Malfunction

2011-11-11 10:36:42 AM

Just wait til he tries the kangaroo burger.

monoski

2011-11-11 10:37:35 AM

thelordofcheese

2011-11-11 10:42:53 AM

Oh, no, I find that source of meat to be more aesthetically pleasing while living than another so I must be outraged.

domenad

2011-11-11 10:44:20 AM

If you've played Red Dead Redemption, you know that just about everything has meat.

rosonowski

2011-11-11 10:47:29 AM

/hotlinked

//SMBC (new window)

NobleHam

2011-11-11 10:47:54 AM

thelordofcheese: Oh, no, I find that source of meat to be more ~~aesthetically pleasing while living~~ in danger of extinction than another so I must be outraged.

FTFY

upright_apes_r_us

2011-11-11 10:51:45 AM

Who has been there and sang, "You've got a friend in me."?

WalMartian

2011-11-11 10:52:44 AM

RexTalionis: How some Australian confused this:

With this:

Is beyond me. Should Australia revoke the guy's passport?

Was thinking the same thing. It's like an American mistaking a pigeon for a bald eagle.

ibanezdude

2011-11-11 10:56:30 AM

NobleHam: thelordofcheese: Oh, no, I find that source of meat to be more aesthetically pleasing while living in danger of extinction than another so I must be outraged.

FTFY

Are bamboo rats in danger of extinction? Because koalas sure as hell aren't.

NobleHam

2011-11-11 10:59:30 AM

ibanezdude: NobleHam: thelordofcheese: Oh, no, I find that source of meat to be more aesthetically pleasing while living in danger of extinction than another so I must be outraged.

FTFY

Are bamboo rats in danger of extinction? Because koalas sure as hell aren't.

Bamboo rats are fine. Koalas are "threatened."

DoochBag

2011-11-11 10:59:38 AM

Unimpressed

Agent Smiths Laugh

2011-11-11 10:59:40 AM

/\ prefers the burgers

Agent Smiths Laugh

2011-11-11 11:00:37 AM

DoochBag: [t0.gstatic.com image 222x227]

Unimpressed

Get out of my mind!!!!!

honk

2011-11-11 11:03:23 AM

I don't know if I'm outraged or not. Depends on how each variety tastes.

vodka

2011-11-11 11:05:53 AM

lunchinlewis: Looks like a nutria. Plenty of Cajuns eat those.

Came to say the same thing. I believe they actually are related, this is just the Asian version.

Not a bad food source because they are herbivores. Unlike actual disease ridden rats.

bk3k

2011-11-11 11:06:35 AM

What the hell? I expect to eat better than giant owls at my Chinese restaurant.

ibanezdude

2011-11-11 11:08:27 AM

NobleHam: ibanezdude: NobleHam: thelordofcheese: Oh, no, I find that source of meat to be more aesthetically pleasing while living in danger of extinction than another so I must be outraged.

FTFY

Are bamboo rats in danger of extinction? Because koalas sure as hell aren't.

Bamboo rats are fine. Koalas are "threatened."

Hmmm...well the IUCN red list has them as "least concern", but there's only like 100,000 of them in the wild so I guess hunting them wouldn't be very healthy for the population.

Yogimus

2011-11-11 11:13:35 AM

Is Bamboo Rat a Panda?

attention span of a retarded fruit fly

2011-11-11 11:20:14 AM

Not a koala, just a Chinese bamboo rat

Commonly sold in food markets

Bizarre veil to protect designer clothes from make-up smudges

One of these things is not like the other....

CarnySaur

2011-11-11 11:28:58 AM

It'll all be goat.

Eravior

2011-11-11 11:40:17 AM

Forget koala. Get some sweet, sweet komodo meat from these guys.

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Spazzattack

2011-11-11 11:40:50 AM

"You no like shiatty koala? We have shiatty beef, shiatty chicken, shiatty shrimp."

TheGreatGazoo

2011-11-11 11:48:31 AM

Amateurs

JLEM

2011-11-11 12:03:52 PM

A RESTAURANT in southern China that found itself at the centre of outrage for selling "koala meat" claims it was in fact selling a type of rat that bears a resemblance to the drowsy marsupial.

That's what I'm calling my penis from now on.

leonel

2011-11-11 12:07:16 PM

Oh well alright then

Magorn

2011-11-11 12:18:28 PM

When i Lived near the Argyle el Stop in Chicago i was deeply concerned because my neighborhood had about 8 chinese restaurants withing a block of each other, and yet I never saw a single rat anywhere in the neighborhood or near their dumpsters. I was much reassured when i realized that the old Uptown Theatre down the block was host to about a half-dozen nesting pairs of falcons and that the graveyard behind my appartment was home to a pack of coyotes that numbered well over a dozen.

Milos Hattrick

2011-11-11 12:25:41 PM

Hilarity_N_Sues

2011-11-11 12:36:58 PM

They Chinese, they play joke...

RexTalionis

2011-11-11 12:38:31 PM

Hilarity_N_Sues: They Chinese, they play joke...

Such original wit.

das224

2011-11-11 12:48:43 PM

I watched king rat as a six year old. It made an impression.

bombsaway814

2011-11-11 01:12:34 PM

Photo of animal in question:

img141.imageshack.us

Good Behavior Day

2011-11-11 01:30:58 PM

I don't care if they do taste like pumpkin pie, I'm not going to eat the filthy motherfarkers.

Indubitably

2011-11-11 03:26:39 PM

Well-seasoned?

groppet

2011-11-11 03:58:11 PM

Do they serve long pork?

thelordofcheese

2011-11-12 02:00:11 PM

ibanezdude: NobleHam: ibanezdude: NobleHam: thelordofcheese: Oh, no, I find that source of meat to be more aesthetically pleasing while living in danger of extinction than another so I must be outraged.

FTFY

Are bamboo rats in danger of extinction? Because koalas sure as hell aren't.

Bamboo rats are fine. Koalas are "threatened."

Hmmm...well the IUCN red list has them as "least concern", but there's only like 100,000 of them in the wild so I guess hunting them wouldn't be very healthy for the population.

And that's why they must be farmed. You think cows would do well in the wild?

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