At the end of the day it is a rabbit without ears and a scaly tail. Peruvians have been eating guinea pigs as their "rabbits" for milleniums. I kind of like rats as pets because they are smart. Eating one wouldn't be repulsive to me if it was properly kept and fed as opposed to a catch from the gutter or the local waste dump which I'm afraid the ones in those pics could be. I wouldn't want to eat rabbit from a waste dump either.
From my three years in Africa I learned that not everything that looks unaccustomed automatically tastes bad.
