Rat mshikaki

This is a common Malawian meal .Living in one of worlds poorest countries the people had to survive the way they can .So they are confronted with the choice of eating rats or starving to death .

Ingredients

• 1 rodent[rat]
• salt
• pepper

 Procedure

*After the harvest season of corn ,young children chase the tasty critters through the corn fields.This is the time when the mice are nice and fat.
*To easily catch the kapuku [the most edible mice species] locals set up traps throughout the corn fields.
*They fill large clay vats with water and smear them with field corn husks.
*As the rats fight for the husks ,some of them fall in the draw.
*The mice are cooked ,salted or dried then stung on sticks and sold as delicacies.