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* 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.

{{quote|'''Spike:''' And is it tasty?

* In ''[[Discworld]]'', rats are a staple of traditional dwarf cuisine. There's a rat-meat section in Ankh-Morpork's butchers' market, and recipes such as rat-on-a-stick, rat pie, and rat pizza are mentioned. An occasional human character is seen dining on such meals with dwarf companions.

** Unbelievably, there's a '''real''' [[Defictionalization|rat pizza recipe]] in ''Nanny Ogg's Cookbook''! {{spoiler|Luckily, it's a human-palatable version, with sculpted "rats" made from cut-up vegetables.}}

*** The same book also plays with this as the Dwarf restaurant owner, Gimlet, apparently was unable to afford real<ref>the gnome rat-catcher charges too much for real, trap-fresh, rat</ref> rat a couple of times and was caught substituting chicken or even beef.

* ''[[World War Z]]'':

** The small dog rescued by one of the interviewees was adopted by a family, and kept them fed through the winter by killing rats for the stewpot.

* Rat-on-a-stick is a quite common wasteland snack in the world of the post-apocalyptic game ''Mutant Future''.

 

* In ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (theatre)|Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]'', a variant of the trope occurs with the meat shortage driving some pie-shop owners to use their neighbors' cats and other poor animals as pie-filling. When Mrs. Lovett, one pie-shop owner, comes across the title vengeance-driven barber, his first murder and his vow to "practice on less honorable throats" following his failure to kill Judge Turpin spark [[I'm a Humanitarian|a ghoulish idea]] as to [[Human Resources|how to get her business back on track]].