Rats - Revision history

Old Dickens: remove dodgy link

2022-03-03T05:26:55Z

remove dodgy link

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	Cats and rats themselves also won't shy away from eating a bit of rat. Except the green wobbly bit.		Cats and rats themselves also won't shy away from eating a bit of rat. Except the green wobbly bit.

	~~On the historical eating of rats: see [http://www.historyextra.com/article/feature/what-was-best-meal-history?utm_source=Facebook+referral&utm_medium=Facebook.com&utm_campaign=Bitly\| here]~~

	External reference: {{wp\|Rat#As_food\|Wikipedia}}		External reference: {{wp\|Rat#As_food\|Wikipedia}}

Marjetika: /* Rat characters */

2017-05-30T16:22:10Z

Rat characters

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	[[The Clan]] - A group of changed Rats who have aquired human level intelligence:		[[The Clan]] - A group of changed Rats who have aquired human level intelligence:

	*[[Additives]]		*[[Additives]] - eaten by [[Maurice]], causing him to become sentient
	*[[Dangerous Beans]] - White rat with a good nose.		*[[Dangerous Beans]] - White rat with a good nose. Very small and almost completely blind.
	*[[Hamnpork]] - Old male and leader of the clan.		*[[Hamnpork]] - Old male and leader of the clan.
	*[[Peaches]] - The keeper of Mr Bunnsey Has An Adventure.		*[[Peaches]] - The keeper of Mr Bunnsey Has An Adventure.

AgProv: expanding. Terry really was ferociously well read.

2017-01-24T17:26:43Z

expanding. Terry really was ferociously well read.

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	External reference: {{wp\|Rat#As_food\|Wikipedia}}		External reference: {{wp\|Rat#As_food\|Wikipedia}}

			==On Rat farms==
			Tudor England understood that grain was all-important to feed an island nation. Something called the Preservation of Grain Act was enabled so that anyone killing a rat or mouse in the granary could present the corpse as proof (local parish churchwardens were enjoined to keep accounts and pay the bounty). The inevitable happened. But so far I've not been able to discover if the rat farms were taxed or not...

	==Rat, the annotation==		==Rat, the annotation==

AgProv: /* Rat, the food */

2016-02-26T17:56:44Z

Rat, the food

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	Cats and rats themselves also won't shy away from eating a bit of rat. Except the green wobbly bit.		Cats and rats themselves also won't shy away from eating a bit of rat. Except the green wobbly bit.

	On the historical eating of rats: see [http://www.historyextra.com/article/feature/what-was-best-meal-history?utm_source=Facebook+referral&utm_medium=Facebook.com&utm_campaign=Bitly\|here]]		On the historical eating of rats: see [http://www.historyextra.com/article/feature/what-was-best-meal-history?utm_source=Facebook+referral&utm_medium=Facebook.com&utm_campaign=Bitly\| here]

	External reference: {{wp\|Rat#As_food\|Wikipedia}}		External reference: {{wp\|Rat#As_food\|Wikipedia}}

AgProv: /* Rat, the food */

2016-02-26T17:54:51Z

Rat, the food

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	Cats and rats themselves also won't shy away from eating a bit of rat. Except the green wobbly bit.		Cats and rats themselves also won't shy away from eating a bit of rat. Except the green wobbly bit.

			On the historical eating of rats: see [http://www.historyextra.com/article/feature/what-was-best-meal-history?utm_source=Facebook+referral&utm_medium=Facebook.com&utm_campaign=Bitly\|here]]

	External reference: {{wp\|Rat#As_food\|Wikipedia}}		External reference: {{wp\|Rat#As_food\|Wikipedia}}

Bnmbnmbnm at 15:45, 3 January 2016

2016-01-03T15:45:21Z

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	*[[The Number Three Heavy Widdlers Squad]]		*[[The Number Three Heavy Widdlers Squad]]
			*[[Light Widdlers]]
	*[[The Trap Disposal Squad]]		*[[The Trap Disposal Squad]]

Bnmbnmbnm at 23:00, 2 January 2016

2016-01-02T23:00:55Z

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	*Inbrine		*Inbrine
	*[[Nourishing]] - Youngest member of the Trap Disposal Squad		*[[Nourishing]] - Youngest member of the Trap Disposal Squad
	*Donut ~~Eater~~		*Donut Enter
	*Toxie - Young Male who has learned to write.		*Toxie - Young Male who has learned to write.
	*Feedsfour - Female		*Feedsfour - Female

Old Dickens: delete funky link

2015-02-27T04:40:16Z

delete funky link

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	Swedish writer Bengt af Klintberg wrote a book about common Swedish urban legends called ''[http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A5ttan_i_pizzan\| Råttan_ i_ pizzan]'' (''The Rat in the Pizza''). The book became so popular that ''Klintbergare'' is now an accepted synonym for an urban legend in Sweden. Terry's dwarfs have a very Scandinavian feel to them. Could the Swedish urban myth have fed back into the Discworld dwarf diet, and become ''real''?		Swedish writer Bengt af Klintberg wrote a book about common Swedish urban legends called ''[http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A5ttan_i_pizzan\| Råttan_ i_ pizzan]'' (''The Rat in the Pizza''). The book became so popular that ''Klintbergare'' is now an accepted synonym for an urban legend in Sweden. Terry's dwarfs have a very Scandinavian feel to them. Could the Swedish urban myth have fed back into the Discworld dwarf diet, and become ''real''?

	Rat is widely eaten in Asia, either by fraudulent misrepresentation (we only had to worry about horse meat labelled as beef), necessity, or because people really like it. ~~Look '''[http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/05/03/5_ways_you_know_youre_eating_rat_meat here]''' [[User:AgProv\|AgProv]] ([[User talk:AgProv\|talk]]) 19:02, 27 July 2014 (UTC)~~		Rat is widely eaten in Asia, either by fraudulent misrepresentation (we only had to worry about horse meat labelled as beef), necessity, or because people really like it.


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	[[Category:Discworld Flora & Fauna]]		[[Category:Discworld Flora & Fauna]]
	[[Category:Food and drink]]		[[Category:Food and drink]]
	[[de:Ratten]]		[[de:Ratten]]

AgProv: /* Rat, the annotation */

2014-07-27T19:02:52Z

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	Swedish writer Bengt af Klintberg wrote a book about common Swedish urban legends called ''[http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A5ttan_i_pizzan\| Råttan_ i_ pizzan]'' (''The Rat in the Pizza''). The book became so popular that ''Klintbergare'' is now an accepted synonym for an urban legend in Sweden. Terry's dwarfs have a very Scandinavian feel to them. Could the Swedish urban myth have fed back into the Discworld dwarf diet, and become ''real''?		Swedish writer Bengt af Klintberg wrote a book about common Swedish urban legends called ''[http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A5ttan_i_pizzan\| Råttan_ i_ pizzan]'' (''The Rat in the Pizza''). The book became so popular that ''Klintbergare'' is now an accepted synonym for an urban legend in Sweden. Terry's dwarfs have a very Scandinavian feel to them. Could the Swedish urban myth have fed back into the Discworld dwarf diet, and become ''real''?

			Rat is widely eaten in Asia, either by fraudulent misrepresentation (we only had to worry about horse meat labelled as beef), necessity, or because people really like it. Look '''[http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/05/03/5_ways_you_know_youre_eating_rat_meat here]''' [[User:AgProv\|AgProv]] ([[User talk:AgProv\|talk]]) 19:02, 27 July 2014 (UTC)

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AgProv: /* Rat, the annotation */

2014-01-13T09:50:20Z

Rat, the annotation

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	Is there an inversion here of the themes and ideas of James Clavell's WW2 prisoner-of-war saga, '''King Rat'''? Here, men held prisoner by the Japanese and half-starved to death on minimal rations first contemplate the idea of eating rat with horror and nausea. Then they get used to it. Then they start a rat farm in tunnels under the prison, and breed rats for commercial resale of the meat. As the war gets nearer its end, the Allied blockade bites, even the Japanese start to get hungry, forcing them to buy the rat meat from the prisoners via intermediaries (so as not to lose face). After liberation, one of the principal characters finds a diet of chicken and pork and beef is all very well, but he misses rat...		Is there an inversion here of the themes and ideas of James Clavell's WW2 prisoner-of-war saga, '''King Rat'''? Here, men held prisoner by the Japanese and half-starved to death on minimal rations first contemplate the idea of eating rat with horror and nausea. Then they get used to it. Then they start a rat farm in tunnels under the prison, and breed rats for commercial resale of the meat. As the war gets nearer its end, the Allied blockade bites, even the Japanese start to get hungry, forcing them to buy the rat meat from the prisoners via intermediaries (so as not to lose face). After liberation, one of the principal characters finds a diet of chicken and pork and beef is all very well, but he misses rat...

	Swedish writer Bengt af Klintberg wrote a book about common Swedish urban legends called ''[[http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A5ttan_i_pizzan\|~~Råttan i~~ pizzan]]'' (''The Rat in the Pizza''). The book became so popular that ''Klintbergare'' is now an accepted synonym for an urban legend in Sweden. Terry's dwarfs have a very Scandinavian feel to them. Could the Swedish urban myth have fed back into the Discworld dwarf diet, and become ''real''?		Swedish writer Bengt af Klintberg wrote a book about common Swedish urban legends called ''[http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A5ttan_i_pizzan\| Råttan_ i_ pizzan]'' (''The Rat in the Pizza''). The book became so popular that ''Klintbergare'' is now an accepted synonym for an urban legend in Sweden. Terry's dwarfs have a very Scandinavian feel to them. Could the Swedish urban myth have fed back into the Discworld dwarf diet, and become ''real''?

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