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brain54:
My brother just because no one refers to it as bush meat from your part...


Doesn't mean others can not call it whatever they want and eat it.


I have never eaten it myself. But if anyone decides to eat whatever they want it is their business.



The Chinese eat frogs and so many things that would make me cringe but would you tell them to not eat what they want. And does eating those things make the Chinese look bad?


Except an animal is endangered I have no problem with people eating anything they want. You should look the other way too as long as no one is forcing you to eat it with them!

What if eating it can spread diseases.

BigCowHornn:
You seem to be very ignorant or shall we say confused as to what Bushmeat really is


Gutter rat is the one you find been Cities... The houses and the gutter

Gutter rat is black in color I'm very smelly. It is a carrier of several diseases and pledges

Bush rat on the other hand is only found in the bush and most times grows much bigger than gutter rat.

The bush rat is brownish in color, smells like a typical Bush meat living in the forest and is where cleaner

People have been eating Bush road for over 500 years. It is sweet rich and delicious

Guttar rat on the other hand stinks. Nobody eats such a thing

If you dey chop rat just talk sey you dey chop rat.

brain54:
My brother just because no one refers to it as bush meat from your part...


Doesn't mean others can not call it whatever they want and eat it.


I have never eaten it myself. But if anyone decides to eat whatever they want it is their business.



The Chinese eat frogs and so many things that would make me cringe but would you tell them to not eat what they want. And does eating those things make the Chinese look bad?


Except an animal is endangered I have no problem with people eating anything they want. You should look the other way too as long as no one is forcing you to eat it with them!

And what about the well known case whereby eating such makes the eater grow a tail and develop claws along with a craving to eat from trash cans and bite human legs. This has been happening everywhere and CANNOT be denied anymore.

Yesterday over twenty people were seen who had grown MASSIVE rat tails in oshodi from eating rats.

NATIONAL Nairalanders HUNTERS ASSOCIATION .This threadjis for una wey ssbi eat bats,lizards, monkey ,tortoise,

DrChukki:
You're not totally correct. What the guy you mentioned ate was Bush Rabbit... The one they call 'Ewi' in Igbo

Grasscutter is 'Nchi'

Both are bush meats and edible

Throwing the word "bush" in front of a rat doesn't miraculously classify that rat as another animal. Rat na Rat.

Castle Rat
Jungle Rat
Church rat
Mosque rat
Even rat inside aso rock na still rat

You can't just eat rat and call it bush rabbit. One dey una go chop human being talk say na Bush monkey because una catch am inside bush

Even rabbit sef na bushmeat

My brother I taya!
Up and down eating of white tailed rats dey call bush meat!

So many ignorant opinions on this thread.

Mrchippychappy:
I saw a thread here https://www.nairaland.com/8673699/how-ended-sunday-bush-meat and I want to set the record straight on this matter.

In Igbo land, Grasscutter is what we refer to as Bushmeat (see first and second picture below), however some Nigerians don't seem to understand the difference between bushmeat and the typical gutter rat.

Please see the pictures below, Notice the rounded head, short ear and short mouth on the grasscutter? compare that to the long mouth, long tail, long and slender long body of the gutter rat (Third picture below)

The Grasscutter is herbivorous and can be found in the bushes and forest , while the Gutter rat eats anything and can be found in the gutter eating excrement, cockroaches, dirt. It is not fit for human consumption.

This habit of catching gutter rats, killing them and trying to pass them off as bushmeat is making Nigerians look bad, the average foreigner visiting Nairaland would assume that Nigerians eat rats.

Its not a good look

Comrade leave matters, Na their family, same village people

NO BE SAY no one no sabi difference, but tHE HARDSHIP and HUNGER wey HIT dem, everywhere jus BLUR!

Gotocourt:
Comrade leave matters, Na their family, same village people

Nwannem e shock me

Na Ratels dey chop rats, thats why they are known as RATS

Rat na rat...they all cut grasses

femi4:
Rat na rat...they all cut grasses

No gutter rats don't eat grass, they eat filth. Grasscutters are not rats

Be weary of lassa fever

LagosOrigin:
That guy yesterday ate gutte rat prepared with pepper and Maggi

He even post pictures

Chei Tinubu, you do this one o

Bobo yen je eku ni sha

best way to recognize grasscutter is that it has long tail and bigger when compared to the house or gutter rat

I nor c any difference from Ur pics one has been roasted while the other is still fresh..even the rat tastes better

Is like you guys are high on cow dung. This animal you just defamed is what some of us in the village take a lot of efforts to hunt and dug a very deep hole before we can catch.

It's true that the animal can be caught domestically but they're mostly found in the forest specifically inside holes. You can't just talk bad of what you know nothing about just because you're a city boy.

Oga if you catch 100s of them I'll text you my address make you send them to me. I need them for a better experiment.

rightminds:
Is like you guys are high on cow dung. This animal you just defamed is what some of us in the village take a lot of efforts to hunt and dug a very deep hole before we can catch.

It's true that the animal can be caught domestically but they're mostly found in the forest specifically inside holes. You can't just talk bad of what you know nothing about just because you're a city boy.

Oga if you catch 100s of them I'll text you my address make you send them to me. I need them for a better experiment.

Go to Ikotun in Lagos, back when I was there, those big rats used to run all over the gutter in the evening. You would pack plenty of them to cook food for you and your family

Mrchippychappy:
Go to Ikotun in Lagos, back when I was there, those big rats used to run all over the gutter in the evening. You would pack plenty of them to cook food for you and your family

Don't mind them jare. A lot of them will be forming health practitioners as what they're eating is better. I ate this animal for more than half of my life and look better and more healthier than many of them. Nonsense.

Yh, but there is also the one called Bush Rat... it exists purely in the Bush.
A Rat, but in the Bushes or Forests.

Whatever their differences they are all rodents and are carriers of some of history's most devastating vectors. Just steer clear of them. Raise your own birds and livestock for meat. Leave these things alone pls.

Why are you arguing with the guy sef. This Nairaland mods dey mess up at times sef. Na one mod push this misinformation to FP
See as the guy dey yarn okpata with inn full chest.
There are different species or rats. The one we Yoruba call okete is pouch/Gambian rat. It is different from the ones found in gutters with it's distinctly elongated tail with a white tip. It can be found in domestic dwellings ,gutters etc cuz of urbanisation. That's does not make it less edible for this that can eat it.
If I kill one in the bush, I can eat it but not one found in a gutter or soakaway/sewage pit and the likes just cuz it's gross though they are the same species.

The Chinese, Vietnamese, Tibetans etc that eat the domestic rat species nko, shey dem die

brain54:
Is the animal only found inside the gutter...?


Is that it's residence? The person that killed the bush meat your thread is all about did he tell you he hunted it inside gutter?

Sensiblerealist:
Why are you arguing with the guy sef. This Nairaland mods dey mess up at times sef. Na one mod push this misinformation to FP
See as the guy dey yarn okpata with inn full chest.
There are different species or rats. The one we Yoruba call okete is pouch/Gambian rat. It is different from the ones found in gutters with it's distinctly elongated tail with a white tip. It can be found in domestic dwellings ,gutters etc cuz of urbanisation. That's does not make it less edible for this that can eat it.
If I kill one in the bush, I can eat it but not one found in a gutter or soakaway/sewage pit and the likes just cuz it's gross though they are the same species.

The Chinese, Vietnamese, Tibetans etc that eat the domestic rat species nko, shey dem die

Bro as the mods no gree do the needful we still try to correct misinformation...


Wetin man go do.


As you said they are different species of rats. I know some places in Nigeria... I won't name were even the domestic rat is a delicacy!

Sensiblerealist:
Why are you arguing with the guy sef. This Nairaland mods dey mess up at times sef. Na one mod push this misinformation to FP
See as the guy dey yarn okpata with inn full chest.
There are different species or rats. The one we Yoruba call okete is pouch/Gambian rat. It is different from the ones found in gutters with it's distinctly elongated tail with a white tip. It can be found in domestic dwellings ,gutters etc cuz of urbanisation. That's does not make it less edible for this that can eat it.
If I kill one in the bush, I can eat it but not one found in a gutter or soakaway/sewage pit and the likes just cuz it's gross though they are the same species.

The Chinese, Vietnamese, Tibetans etc that eat the domestic rat species nko, shey dem die

Thank you for confirming.

Mrchippychappy:
I saw a thread here https://www.nairaland.com/8673699/how-ended-sunday-bush-meat and I want to set the record straight on this matter.

In Igbo land, Grasscutter is what we refer to as Bushmeat (see first and second picture below), however some Nigerians don't seem to understand the difference between bushmeat and the typical gutter rat.

Please see the pictures below, Notice the rounded head, short ear and short mouth on the grasscutter? compare that to the long mouth, long tail, long and slender long body of the gutter rat (Third picture below)

The Grasscutter is herbivorous and can be found in the bushes and forest , while the Gutter rat eats anything and can be found in the gutter eating excrement, cockroaches, dirt. It is not fit for human consumption.

This habit of catching gutter rats, killing them and trying to pass them off as bushmeat is making Nigerians look bad, the average foreigner visiting Nairaland would assume that Nigerians eat rats.

Its not a good look

There's a different between gutter rat and normal rat that lives in a well digged hole, on its own accord. The common gutter rats are the one you just described.As the name implies they live in the gutter.This one is different from normal rat, which lives in a hole From your description its called Okete in western Nigeria

Desusi:
There's a different between gutter rat and normal rat that lives in a well digged hole, on its own accord. The common gutter rats are the one you just described.As the name implies they live in the gutter.This one is different from normal rat, which lives in a hole From your description its called Okete in western Nigeria

Bro that thing na rat.

Leave that to the Pot of soup to different

Good. I'm expecting to see someone that have the knowledge. What that guy killed was African giant pouch rat, some people called it rabbit coz they don't really know the English name. In Yoruba it's called Okete. So it's different from gutter rat and bigger.in all indications pouch rat is "bush meat" the OP is wrong by saying only grass cutter is called bush meat, unless if that's the only animal find in the bush in his area.

erniok:
It's nit gutter rat. It's called african/Gambian pouched rat.

Mrchippychappy:
I saw a thread here https://www.nairaland.com/8673699/how-ended-sunday-bush-meat and I want to set the record straight on this matter.

In Igbo land, Grasscutter is what we refer to as Bushmeat (see first and second picture below), however some Nigerians don't seem to understand the difference between bushmeat and the typical gutter rat.

Please see the pictures below, Notice the rounded head, short ear and short mouth on the grasscutter? compare that to the long mouth, long tail, long and slender long body of the gutter rat (Third picture below)

The Grasscutter is herbivorous and can be found in the bushes and forest , while the Gutter rat eats anything and can be found in the gutter eating excrement, cockroaches, dirt. It is not fit for human consumption.

This habit of catching gutter rats, killing them and trying to pass them off as bushmeat is making Nigerians look bad, the average foreigner visiting Nairaland would assume that Nigerians eat rats.

Its not a good look

Please stop spreading falsehood. Stick to topics you are knowledgeable about.

First off, bushmeat refers to any edible animal that is not domesticated - including the one in the post you quoted above. It must not necessarily be found in the bush.

For you to refer to the rat in the post you quoted as "gutter rat" shows that you don't know anything about the various rat species.

That rat is known as a giant pouched rat. There are many species of it such as the Gambian giant pouched rat, African giant pouched rat, East African Savannah giant pouched rat, etc,. They are all edible and in fact, some people keep them as pets.

In Igbo, it's called "ewi". Not "oke"!