The only shop in Mexico that sells rat soup

San Luis Potosi: We have always heard about the strange foods that are eaten in China, but a city in Mexico has something that none of us can even imagine eating.

In San Luis Potosí, Mexico, there is a market where an old food stall sells rat meat and soup.

Rat meat may be a very disgusting thing to us, but for the people of San Luis Potosí, it has been loved for its taste.

In recent years, all shops selling rat meat and dishes containing rat meat have disappeared from local markets in Mexico, except for the market in San Luis Potosí, which still sells raw rat meat and rat soup with vegetables and spices. does. Each bowl of soup contains a whole rat and is sold for 100 pesos ($5.80).

The shopkeeper, José Remedios, said he inherited the business from his mother, who died recently. He said that once there used to be several people selling rat meat in this market but they all retired or died and now there is only one person left.

He added that he does not intend to give up the family business anytime soon. After all, the stall has been active for 52 years and he plans to keep it running for as long as possible.