Re: Rat for dinner?

On 2025-02-13, Ed P <esp@snet.xxx> wrote:

On 2/12/2025 11:37 PM, ItsJoanNotJoAnn wrote:

On Thu, 13 Feb 2025 3:28:25 +0000, Ed P wrote:
 

I'm watching a show on Discovery Channel called Contraband Seized at the
Border.  A couple is bringing is some things from Mexico and being
checked at the border.
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The main question was the value of a grinding machine to process corn
for tortillas.  That was OK, used it had a value so it did not have to
be declared.  Further inspection though, uncovered another item. Frozen
food in a cooler.  Eight rats.  Skinned and cleaned, ready to cook.
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In some countries they are considered a delicacy.
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Anyone have a favorite family recipe to share?
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I sometimes watch "Border Patrol" and "To Catch a Smuggler"
and it's in the USA, different entrances, Canada, Australia,
New Zealand, Colombia, etc.  It's amazing the stuff people
attempt to bring in and it's seized.  Many times they get
fined because they lied on the declaration card they filled
out.  Arrested as well for smuggling drugs.

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People tend to blame the illegal border crossers for bringing in drugs.
Some of these crossing at checkpoint have hundreds of thousand of
dollars of the stuff on one trip.  Sadly, it is supply and demand as
people ingest the stuff.

Sure.  But politicians who believe in supply-side economics also
can't fathom solving the drug problem on the demand side, either.

Same thing with illegal immigration.  Round up and jail a few
meatpacking CEOs, the head of Dole (lettuce, etc.) and some of the
big construction outfits.  _Persuade_ them not to hire illegals.
Of course, we'd have to have a much better guest worker program,
and that would cost tax dollars.

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Cindy Hamilton