I knew cooked field rats
http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/cooked-rats-actually-look-pretty-good.html were eaten in Asian countries like Thailand and Vietnam (they look very tasty too), but it seems they're regarded as a delicacy in African countries like Malawi.
Living in one of the world's poorest countries, the people of Malawi have to survive any way they can, so when they're confronted with the choice of
eating mice or starving to death, you can guess what they opt for.
Young children chase the "tasty" critters through the corn fields, right after the harvest, when the mice are nice and fat. To easily catch
Kapuku, the most popular
edible species of mice, locals set up traps throughout the fields. They fill large clay vats with water and smear them with fried corn husks. As the rats fight over the husks, some of them fall in and drown.
The
mice are cooked, salted or dried, then strung on sticks and sold as delicacies. Yum!