Cambodians Find Mice Way to Turn a Profit

[Coco]

Cambodians Find Mice Way to Turn a Profit
Wed Jun 26, 8:19 AM ET

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodian villagers are catching thousands of mice to sell to Vietnam for food, a local official said on Wednesday.



Vietnamese villagers pay up to 15 cents per pound for mice caught in the rice fields of southeast Cambodia, said Kep Chutima, governor of Takeo province.

"There are uncounted numbers of mice and our villagers trap them every day and sell them to Vietnam," he told Reuters.

Local officials said some Vietnamese ate the mice fried with watergrass and oyster sauce. Fried mice meat is also popular among poor Cambodians.





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[Pootertoot]

I hear Charlie's coming out of the trees in droves to sink their teeth into Pixie and Dixie.

I was thinking, wouldn't it be great if there was a vietnamese restaurant, where the waiters jumped out of "trees" to take your order and bring you food? And they could have little Vietnamese girls run out of the kitchen with the menu strapped to their chest.

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I have a few cool facts about Vietnam:

1) Most Vietnamese prostitutes actually came from wealthy families. They became prostitutes because they found the lifestyle exciting.

2) The Vietnamese began eating dogs regularly during their revolution against the French. The French would send dogs to find guerillas who were hiding. When the guerillas killed the dog, the villagers would eat it so no meat would go to waste.

and my favorite 3) South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem (The best leader they ever had) was born in 1901, the year of the mouse and was assassinated in 1963, the year of the cat. The cat got the mouse.

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[Pootertoot]

Why? They're not going to kill us all, unless they're poisonous...and if so, we win the vietnam war, technically.

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