There are few better ways (short of No Party Like a Donner Party) to demonstrate that a human character is desperate for food than to reduce him to eating rats. Although such animals are technically edible, their association with disease, garbage and urban decay places them firmly on the "Unclean/Do Not Eat" list in most viewers' minds. This also applies for mice, cockroaches, dump-foraging seagulls, mangy strays and other scrounging pests, although their small size makes some of these creatures unlikely candidates for Meal of Last Resort. Examples of Reduced to Ratburgers include:
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