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== Anime ==

* The Gateway Shuffle episode of [[Cowboy Bebop]] revolves around ecoterrorists trying to stop the harvest of Sea Rats. Once something only eaten by desperate Ganymede colonists, it became a gourmet food when interplanetary shipping became more reliable.

'''Jet:''' It’s totally disgusting. People eat it anyway for status, it’s "in" now. }}

** It also works as a reference to Lobster, which was considered a desperation food for slaves and the poor during the early days of American Colonialism.

== [[Film]] ==

* In ''[[The Last Unicorn (animation)|The Last Unicorn]]'', the bandits complain that Molly keeps serving them rat soup.

* In ''Never Cry Wolf'', the naturalist tests whether a wolf-sized animal can really survive eating only rodent-sized prey by catching and eating the arctic mice and voles that keep infesting his campsite.

* In the 2010 film based on ''[[Yogi Bear]]'', Yogi, accustomed to eating only "pic-a-nic" lunches, is forced to "rough it" and tries eating worms instead. It goes about as well as you'd expect.

* In ''[[Time Bandits]]'', Vermin catches and eats a ''live'' rat when the characters are imprisoned. Of course, he [[Extreme Omnivore|eats anything]].

* The subterranean "scraps" who live in the tunnels under San Angelo, in ''[[Demolition Man]]'', eat rat meat.

"Do you see any cows around here, Detective?" }}

** [[Crowning Moment of Funny|He then proceeds to keep eating.]]

* In a desperate attempt to keep costs down, the main characters in the ''Death Nurse'' duology start secretly feeding the patients staying at their clinic rats from the basement.

* In ''[[Threads]]'', Ruth Beckett barters for dead rats in the months [[The End of the World as We Know It|after nuclear war]]. All the while, there's a Standard Life insurance company's advertisement behind them.

* In ''[[Lucifers Hammer]]'', the survivors of the cometary strike supplement their limited diet through a harsh winter by raising and eating rats as food animals.

* In [[Anne Rice]]'s ''[[Interview with the Vampire]]'', newly turned Louis couldn't stomach the idea of feeding upon humans, [[Vegetarian Vampire|so he feeds upon rats instead]]. This was mocked by his sire Lestat, who considered him a coward and a weakling because of it.

* One of the early [[Shadowrun]] novels is told from a city ork's point of view, and mentions his distaste for cat meat, which local ork kids hunt down in the alleys of the Barrens.

* In ''[[Harry Potter]]'', Sirius mentions having to eat rats and other stuff while on the run from the ministry. At least it could be said that being in dog form while doing so would make it more bearable, but he still chomps on the food the kids bring him when they meet.