Agouti and other fun eats

Agouti is bushrat, popular meat in west Africa. I tried it once in Benin a few years ago, and today I finally succumbed to peer pressure and had some for lunch. It doesn't taste bad: it's a dark meat, not unlike wild meat you might eat elsewhere, it was braised and flakey. I guess it's just the mental block of eating something with the word "rat" in it. But I've overcome apparently. Here's a picture of what you'd see in the market. Yum...