User:Major Bonkers/Rat-eating in the Royal Navy

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Sir Sidney, among many peculiar eccentricities, asserted that rats fed cleaner, and were better eating, than pigs or ducks; and, agreeably to his wish, a dish of these beautiful vermin were caught daily with fish-hooks, well baited, in the provision hold, for the ship was infested with them, and served up at the captain's table; the sight of them alone took off the keen edge of my appetite. ^[1]

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Adkins ^[2] asserts that [...] it was not uncommon for seamen to cook and eat rats to supplement their rations: what was unusual was serving them at the captain's table.

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^ Parsons, G.S. (1905) Nelsonian Reminiscenses: Leaves from Memory's Log, London. p.221; cited in Adkins, R. & L. (2006) The War for All the Oceans: From Nelson at the Nile to Napoleon at Waterloo, Little, Brown; London. ISBN-13: 978-0-3167-2837-9. p.97
^ Adkins, R. & L. (2006) The War for All the Oceans: From Nelson at the Nile to Napoleon at Waterloo, Little, Brown; London. ISBN-13: 978-0-3167-2837-9. p.97

[1] Parsons, G.S. (1905) Nelsonian Reminiscenses: Leaves from Memory's Log, London. p.221; cited in Adkins, R. & L. (2006) The War for All the Oceans: From Nelson at the Nile to Napoleon at Waterloo, Little, Brown; London. ISBN-13: 978-0-3167-2837-9. p.97

[2] Adkins, R. & L. (2006) The War for All the Oceans: From Nelson at the Nile to Napoleon at Waterloo, Little, Brown; London. ISBN-13: 978-0-3167-2837-9. p.97

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