Rat in Mi Kitchen
1987 single by UB40
"Rat in Mi Kitchen" is a song written and performed by British reggae and pop group UB40. It features Herb Alpert on trumpet and is the sixth track on their album 1986 "Rat in the Kitchen". Released as a single on 5 January 1987, it reached number 12 on the UK Singles Chart later the same month, staying on the chart for seven weeks.
Although "Rat in Mi Kitchen" is attributed to the whole group, like many UB40 songs, it was written by Astro. At the time, lead singer Ali Campbell had moved into a new home in Balsall Heath, Birmingham and was troubled by rodents. When asked by Astro if he had any ideas for new songs he replied, "Oh God, I don't care about the album for a minute, I've got a rat in the kitchen!" Astro, who sings lead vocals on the song, wrote the track in response.
The sleeve artwork is by Bob Linney.
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Rat in the Kitchen
Rat in the Kitchen is the seventh album by UB40, released in July 1986. This album contained two UK hits, "Sing Our Own Song" (UK No. 5 in 1986) and "Rat in Mi Kitchen" (UK No. 12 in 1987). The album itself reached 8 in the UK album charts in 1986 staying in the charts for twenty weeks. The album provoked a positive reception from critics.
Reception.
AllMusic said the album was "as usual, a tuneful collection of reggae" and later described the album as "edgy".
Track listing.
All tracks composed by UB40
Charts.
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Ratsy
American singer
Ratsy (real name Patty Kemp; born in Jackson, Michigan) is a folk singer-songwriter who was part of the Boston folk scene. She is known for her quirky and humorous lyrics.
Biography.
After attending Michigan State University and graduating from beauty school with a cosmetology license, she moved to Boston and sang in the subway. She performed in local coffeehouses and at colleges.
In 1999, she moved to Hollywood and began appearing in commercials while continuing her musical career. She took up with the lindy hop community, and took lessons in swing dancing. She appeared in a 2002 episode of "Gilmore Girls", as a featured dancer during an episode focusing on a dance marathon. She has since relocated to Oberlin, Ohio, where she runs a vintage antique shop, Ratsy's Store.
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Rats (album)
Rats is the third studio album by Canadian rock singer/songwriter Sass Jordan, released on Aquarius Records (Canada) March 1994.
Personnel.
Band
Technical
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Ratatouille (soundtrack)
2007 film score by Michael Giacchino
Ratatouille (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack album to the 2007 Disney/Pixar film of the same name composed and arranged by Michael Giacchino. The film marked Giacchino's second Pixar film after "The Incredibles", which was also directed by Bird and also the second Pixar film not to be scored by Randy Newman or Thomas Newman. The album features original score cues, with an original song "Le Festin" written by Giacchino and performed by Camille, and was released by Walt Disney Records on June 26, 2007.
The score featured a diverse collection of influences of music genres: European romanticism, gypsy jazz, folk-pop and traditional elements of Parisian café sounds. The music received critical acclaim, praising it as one of Giacchino's best scores in his career, and gave his first Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score. However, Giacchino won the Annie Award for Best Music in a Feature Production, and his first Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album. Giacchino returned to Pixar to score their 2009 blockbuster "Up". A remastered double LP was released by Mondo, 10 years after the film's release in November 2017.
Development.
Giacchino had written two themes for Remy, one about him with the rat colony and the other about his hopes and dreams. He also wrote a buddy theme for both Remy and Linguini that plays when they are together. Giacchino stated that Bird wanted him to "express the taste of food with music" and doing the same with visuals. While writing the score, he had to find the elements of Paris in the film and also to create music out of the city as was the story. Hence, several scores were created for the characters and their emotions, as the setting "needed a broader scope". A wide range of instruments (accordion, violin, jazz guitar, clarinet, piano amongst others) were used. The score was produced and recorded at Sony Pictures Studios with Tim Simonec as the orchestrator and conductor.
According to "Entertainment Weekly", Giacchino said that "the film was different from scene to scene. When you go see a movie about rats, you’re thinking it’s going to be funny and slapstick — but this is an extremely emotional movie". In addition to the score, Giacchino wrote the main theme song, "Le Festin", about Remy and his dream to be a chef. Though Bird's initial films were not song-oriented, the necessity to include an original song was "to do something different and special", according to Giacchino. The song was the first cue he wrote for the film. French artist Camille (who was 29 at the time of the film's release) was hired to perform "Le Festin" after Giacchino listened to her music and realized she was perfect for the song; as a result, the song is sung in French in almost all versions of the film. The song was recorded in Vancouver.
In October 2015, coinciding with "Ratatouille"'s premiere at the Royal Albert Hall, London, Giacchino conducted a live orchestral performance at the venue, which received widespread acclaim. Giacchino's themes were partly used in the unofficial musical performed by TikTok users through crowdfunding in November 2020, and new songs were performed by the cast.
Track listing.
All music/tracks composed and arranged by Michael Giacchino, except where noted.
Reception.
The soundtrack received critical acclaim, with Empire magazine called the score as one of "Giacchino's best" and further added "Certainly, there’s a heavy dose of predictability here given its use of practically every French music cliché there is (albeit rendered in a stylish jazz/waltz/salsa style), but the sheer verve, infectiously upbeat tone and creative use of special instrumentation swiftly renders that criticism moot - it’s never less than utterly enjoyable." James Christopher Monger of AllMusic called it as a "lively and endlessly inventive soundtrack that strikes a perfect balance between the old European drama of Ennio Morricone and the unhinged whimsy of Raymond Scott". He further wrote, " Like an Old World version of Giacchino's jazz-infused, comic-book-kissed score for "The Incredibles", "Ratatouille" is both elegant and mad, built around a sweet and playful theme called "Le Festin," which is presented both instrumentally and vocally (sung by the charming French star Camille) and is as timeless as the dish for which the film is based."
Accolades.
Giacchino's score for "Ratatouille" was nominated for the Best Original Score category at the 80th Academy Awards. However, he won the Annie Award for Best Music in an Animated Feature Production and Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media. It further received two nominations at the Satellite Award for Best Original Score and at the World Soundtrack Award for Best Original Song Written for Film, for the song "Le Festin".
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Ratatat (album)
Ratatat is the debut album from the Brooklyn-based electronic duo of the same name. It was recorded between July 2001 and May 2003 in bassist Evan Mast's Crown Heights, Brooklyn apartment and mixed in June 2003 before its release on April 20, 2004.
The album is essentially instrumental, although it has occasional voice excerpts (referred to in the liner notes as "spoken interludes") by local MC and rapper Young Churf. The track "Spanish Armada" contains a French horn played by Michal Emanovsky. Other tracks of note are "Germany to Germany", later released as a single; and "Cherry", a homage to Ratatat's original name.
The most well known song on the album is "Seventeen Years". It was featured in a television advertisement titled "Accessorize" for the Hummer H2 in 2004, in the British television show "Soccer AM" as the original background music for The Crossbar Challenge segment, and in Level One Productions's ski movie "Shanghai Six".
It was also played during Rob's party in the 2008 monster movie "Cloverfield" as well as Keith Hufnagel's part in the DVS skateboard video "Skate More". The song "Bustelo" was used in several Jaguar commercials in mid-2006.
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The Rats (American band)
American garage punk band
The Rats were an American garage punk band from Portland, Oregon, formed by Fred Cole previously of the garage rock band, The Lollipop Shoppe. Cole played guitar and sang, his wife, Toody Cole played bass and sang, and initially Rod Rat (Rod Hibbert) played drums. Their sound was described as a raw mix of punk rock with occasional country touches.
Their self-titled debut album appeared on Cole's Whizeagle label in 1980. Afterward, Rod Rat departed from the band, and died by suicide. (Prior to his suicide Rod Rat also played drums in 1980-81 for Portland power pop band Domino Theory).
Sam Henry, formerly of the Wipers, played drums on this LP but left to join another Portland band, Napalm Beach.
Louis Samora took over the drumming duties for the band's 1983 album "In a Desperate Red," which was also released under the Whizeagle label. However, he departed from the band in 1984 to focus on his rockabilly group, The Jackals.
After The Rats disbanded in 1984 Bill Barker of Profile Studios in Vancouver, British Columbia convinced the band to reunite for a single. It appeared under the band name The Desperate Edge later in 1984.
Soon after, Cole assembled a country band, Western Front, and he and Toody later reunited in Dead Moon.
In 2008, Portland's Mississippi Records reissued the first album on vinyl.
The two-part song "The Rat's Revenge" - which appeared on the 1983 compilation Back from the Grave - was performed (some 15 years prior) by a different band under the same name.
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Rat Trap
"Rat Trap" is a song by the Boomtown Rats, released in October 1978 as the third and final single from the band's second album "A Tonic for the Troops". It reached No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart for two weeks in November 1978, the first single by a punk or new wave act to do so.
The song was written by Bob Geldof, and produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange. It replaced "Summer Nights", a hit single for John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John from the soundtrack of "Grease", at number one on the UK chart after the latter's seven-week reign.
Song.
"Rat Trap" is a rock song, telling the tale of a boy called Billy who feels the depressing town he lives in is a "rat trap".
When the band performed the song on "Top of the Pops" (which is also mentioned in the song) as the UK new number one, the band members began by tearing up pictures of Travolta and Newton-John to emphasise the fact that the pair - who had spent a total of 16 weeks out of the preceding 22 at the top of the charts - had been deposed. Geldof mimed the saxophone part on a candelabra, a jest he explained in his autobiography "Is That It?": "The Musicians' Union had forbidden me to play saxophone on the video, as obviously I hadn't done so on the record. But I saw a candelabra on the piano at the shoot and I put a mouthpiece in the central candle holder and played it. The impact of video came home when during the next few British gigs kids pulled out candelabras from nowhere and began playing them during the sax solo in 'Rat Trap'".
In the music video, which was directed by David Mallet, various members of the band are seen reading copies of the novel "Rat Trap" by the Welsh author Craig Thomas, although the book has no connection to the song. The lyric about "pus and grime..." was changed to "blood and tears pour down the drains and the sewers", although Geldof mumbled the line anyway.
One of the more popular Boomtown Rats songs, it was performed by them at Live Aid and is still performed by Geldof to this day. During the Live Aid performance, Geldof's microphone went dead (apparently from the cable being damaged), causing Simon Crowe's harmony vocals to become the only audible voice on the last half of the song.
In 1996, Geldof recorded a self-mocking cover version of the song with Dustin the Turkey which reached number one in Ireland.
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Ratatouille (film)
2007 film by Brad Bird
Ratatouille ( ) is a 2007 American animated comedy-drama film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. The eighth film produced by Pixar, it was written and directed by Brad Bird and produced by Brad Lewis, from an original idea by Jan Pinkava, who was credited for conceiving the film's story with Bird and Jim Capobianco. The film stars the voices of Patton Oswalt, Lou Romano, Ian Holm, Janeane Garofalo, Peter O'Toole, Brian Dennehy, Peter Sohn and Brad Garrett. The title refers to the French dish ratatouille, and also references the species of the main character, a rat. Set mostly in Paris, the plot follows a young rat Remy (Oswalt) who dreams of becoming a chef at Auguste Gusteau's (Garrett) restaurant and tries to achieve his goal by forming an unlikely alliance with the restaurant's garbage boy Alfredo Linguini (Romano).
Development for "Ratatouille" began in 2000 when Pinkava wrote the original concepts of the film, although he was never formally named the director of the film. In 2005, following Pinkava's departure from Pixar for lacking confidence in the story development, Bird was approached to direct the film and revise the story. Bird and some of the film's crew members also visited Paris for inspiration. To create the food animation used in the film, the crew consulted chefs from both France and the United States. Lewis interned at Thomas Keller's The French Laundry restaurant, where Keller developed the confit byaldi, a dish used in the film. Michael Giacchino composed the Paris-inspired music for the film.
"Ratatouille" premiered on June 22, 2007, at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, California, with its general release on June 29, in the United States. The film became a critical and commercial success, grossing $623.7 million worldwide. It finished its theatrical run as the sixth highest-grossing film of 2007 and the year's second highest-grossing animated film (behind "Shrek the Third"). The film received widespread acclaim for its screenplay, animation, humor, voice acting, and Giacchino's score. It also won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and was nominated for several more, including Best Original Screenplay. "Ratatouille" was later voted one of the 100 greatest motion pictures of the 21st century by a 2016 poll of international critics conducted by the BBC.
Plot.
Remy, a young rat with heightened senses of taste and smell, dreams of becoming a chef like his human idol, the late Auguste Gusteau. Conversely, the rest of his colony, including his older brother Émile and his father, Django, the clan leader, only eat for sustenance and are wary of humans. The rats live in an elderly woman's attic outside Paris, but when the woman discovers them, they are forced to evacuate, and Remy is separated. Encouraged by an imaginary Gusteau, he explores until he finds himself on the roof of Gusteau's namesake restaurant.
Remy sees the restaurant's new garbage boy, Alfredo Linguini, struggling to fix a soup he ruined and steps in to help. Linguini notices Remy but keeps his presence secret from Skinner, Gusteau's former sous-chef and new owner. When Skinner confronts Linguini about the soup, it unexpectedly becomes a hit. Colette Tatou, the restaurant's only female chef, persuades Skinner to keep Linguini and support Gusteau's motto, "Anyone can cook." Skinner demands Linguini replicate the soup but spots Remy, ordering Linguini to take him outside and kill him. Alone, Linguini realizes Remy understands him and persuades Remy to assist with cooking.
Remy controls Linguini's movements like a marionette by pulling on his hair while hiding under his toque. They recreate the soup and continue cooking at the restaurant. Colette begrudgingly trains Linguini but steadily appreciates him heeding her advice. Later, Remy finds Émile and reunites with the clan. After Remy tells Django that he intends to stay at the restaurant, Django shows him a group of exterminated rats to convince him that humans are dangerous, but Remy ignores his warnings and leaves.
Meanwhile, Skinner discovers a letter from Linguini's late mother stating that Linguini is Gusteau's son and thereby the rightful owner of the restaurant. Skinner is shocked and enraged about this revelation, as Gusteau's will stated that he would inherit ownership of the restaurant only if no biological heir appeared two years after the latter's death. After his lawyer verifies that Linguini is Gusteau's heir, Skinner hides the evidence in an envelope. Remy escapes with this, and shows it to Linguini, who then fires Skinner and discontinues a line of frozen food that Skinner had started. The restaurant thrives as Remy's recipes become popular, and Linguini's life improves as he develops a romantic relationship with Colette. Food critic Anton Ego, whose previous negative review of the restaurant indirectly led to Gusteau's death, announces to Linguini that he will review the restaurant again the following day. After Linguini takes credit for Remy's cooking at a press conference, he and Remy have a falling out. As revenge, Remy leads his clan to raid the restaurant's pantries. Linguini arrives to apologize, but upon discovering the raid, he furiously expels Remy and his clan from the restaurant.
The next day, Skinner captures Remy, who is quickly freed by Django and Émile. After returning to the restaurant, he and Linguini reconcile, and Linguini reveals Remy and his cooking techniques to his staff, who all immediately quit. Reminded of Gusteau's motto, Colette returns to help the clan cook under Remy's direction while Linguini waits tables. Skinner and a health inspector attempt to interfere, but the rats lock them in the pantry. Remy creates a variation of ratatouille, which reminds Ego of his mother's cooking. Delighted, Ego asks to meet the chef and is stunned when introduced to Remy. The next day, he writes a review, stating that he has come to understand Gusteau's motto and describing Remy without revealing that he is a rat.
Although the rats imprisoned Skinner and the health inspector, the authorities learned of the rats in the kitchen and Gusteau's is shut down, stripping Ego of his job and credibility. Remy, Linguini, and Colette open a bistro called La Ratatouille, which a now-happier Ego invests in and frequents. The rat colony settles into the bistro's attic as their new home.
Voice cast.
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Production.
Jan Pinkava came up with the concept in 2000, creating the original design, sets and characters and core storyline, but he was never formally named the director of the film. By 2004, Pixar added Bob Peterson as a co-director and he was given exclusive control of the story. After three months and lacking confidence in the story development, Pixar management turned to "The Incredibles" director Brad Bird to direct the film, just as Pinkava departed Pixar in 2005 while Peterson left the film to return to work on "Up". Bird was attracted to the film because of the outlandishness of the concept and the conflict that drove it: that rats feared kitchens, yet a rat wanted to work in one. Bird was also delighted that the film could be made a highly physical comedy, with the character of Linguini providing endless fun for the animators. Bird rewrote the story, with a change in emphasis. He killed off Gusteau, gave larger roles to Skinner and Colette, and also changed the appearance of the rats to be less anthropomorphic.
Because "Ratatouille" is intended to be a romantic, lush vision of Paris, giving it an identity distinct from the studio's previous films, director Brad Bird, producer Brad Lewis and some of the crew spent a week in the city to properly understand its environment, taking a motorcycle tour and eating at five top restaurants. There are also many water-based sequences in the film, one of which is set in the sewers and is more complex than the blue whale scene in "Finding Nemo". One scene has Linguini wet after jumping into the Seine to fetch Remy. A Pixar employee (Shade/Paint department coordinator Kesten Migdal) jumped into Pixar's swimming pool wearing a chef's uniform and apron to see which parts of the suit stuck to his body and which became translucent from water absorption.
A challenge for the filmmakers was creating computer-generated images of food that would appear delicious. Gourmet chefs in both the U.S. and France were consulted, and animators attended cooking classes at San Francisco-area culinary schools to understand the workings of a commercial kitchen. Sets/Layout department manager Michael Warch, a culinary-academy-trained professional chef before working at Pixar, helped teach and consult animators as they worked. He also prepared dishes used by the Art, Shade/Paint, Effects and Sets Modeling departments. Renowned chef Thomas Keller allowed producer Brad Lewis to intern in his French Laundry kitchen. For the film's climax, Keller suggested a fancy, layered version of the title dish for the rat characters to cook, called "confit byaldi". The same sub-surface light scattering technique that was used on the skin in "The Incredibles" was used on fruits and vegetables, while new programs gave an organic texture and movement to the food. Completing the illusion were music, dialogue, and abstract imagery representing the characters' mental sensations while appreciating food. The visual flavor metaphors were created by animator Michel Gagné inspired by the work of Oskar Fischinger and Norman McLaren. To create a realistic compost pile, the Art Department photographed fifteen different kinds of produce, such as apples, berries, bananas, mushrooms, oranges, broccoli, and lettuce, in the process of rotting.
The cast members strove to make their French accents authentic yet understandable. John Ratzenberger notes that he often segued into an Italian accent. Ian Holm was cast as the character of Skinner after Bird saw him in "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy. According to Pixar designer Jason Deamer, "Most of the characters were designed while Jan [Pinkava] was still directing… He has a real eye for sculpture." According to Pinkava, the critic Anton Ego was designed to resemble a vulture. To save time, human characters were designed and animated without toes. Dana Carvey was originally approached for a role but he declined as he was busy raising kids.
Rat expert Debbie Ducommun (a.k.a. the "Rat Lady") was consulted on rat habits and characteristics. Along with Ducommun's insight a vivarium containing pet rats sat in a hallway for more than a year so animators could study the movement of the animals' fur, noses, ears, paws, and tails as they ran.
Promotional material for Intel credits their platform for a 30 percent performance improvement in rendering software. They used "Ratatouille" in some of their marketing materials.
The film was animated with traditional techniques rather than motion capture. Bird noted this in the credits because he felt there was a trend of using real-time performance capture in animated films instead of the frame by frame methodology he "love[s] & was proud that we had used" on the movie.
Soundtrack.
"Ratatouille" is the second Pixar film to be scored by Michael Giacchino after "The Incredibles". It is also the second Pixar film not to be scored by Randy or Thomas Newman. The scores feature a wide range of instrumentation and are influenced by various music genres. Giacchino wrote two themes for Remy, one about him with the rat colony and the other about his hopes and dreams. He also wrote a buddy theme for both Remy and Linguini that plays when they are together. In addition to the score, Giacchino wrote the main theme song, "Le Festin", about Remy and his dream to be a chef. French artist Camille (who was 29 at the time of the film's release) was hired to perform "Le Festin" after Giacchino listened to her music and realized she was perfect for the song; as a result, the song is sung in French in almost all versions of the film. The soundtrack album was released by Walt Disney Records on June 26, 2007.
Ratatouille (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) track listing
Release.
Theatrical.
"Ratatouille" was initially scheduled for release on June 9, 2006, but was later pushed back to June 29, 2007. This shift was reportedly made to accommodate the 2006 date for "Cars".
"Ratatouille"'s world premiere was on June 22, 2007, at Los Angeles' Kodak Theatre. The commercial release was one week later, with the short film "Lifted" preceding "Ratatouille" in theaters. Earlier in the year, it had received an Academy Award nomination. A test screening of the film was shown at the Harkins Cine Capri Theater in Scottsdale, Arizona on June 16, 2007, at which a Pixar representative was present to collect viewer feedback. Disney CEO Bob Iger announced an upcoming theatrical re-release of the film in 3D at the Disney shareholders meeting in March 2014.
Marketing.
The trailer for "Ratatouille" debuted with the release of "Cars", its immediate predecessor. It depicts an original scene where Remy is caught red-handed on the cheese trolley in the restaurant's dining area, sampling the cheese and barely escaping the establishment, intercut with separate scenes of the rat explaining directly to the audience why he is taking such risks. Similar to most of Pixar's teaser trailers, the scene was not present in the final film release.
A second trailer was released on March 23, 2007. The Ratatouille "Big Cheese Tour" began on May 11, 2007, with cooking demonstrations and a film preview. Voice actor Lou Romano attended the San Francisco leg of the tour for autograph signings.
Disney and Pixar were working to bring a French-produced "Ratatouille"-branded wine to Costco stores in August 2007, but abandoned plans because of complaints from the California Wine Institute, citing standards in labelling that restrict the use of cartoon characters to avoid attracting under-age drinkers. Moreover, both companies faced other challenges trying to lure audiences, as several stores had been overflowing with merchandise themed to other newly released films like "Spider-Man 3", "Shrek the Third" and "Transformers", making it tougher to persuade parents to spend an additional cost between $7.99 to $19.99 on a plush rat.
In the United Kingdom, in place of releasing a theatrical trailer, a commercial featuring Remy and Emile was released in cinemas before its release to discourage obtaining unlicensed copies of films. Also, in the United Kingdom, the main characters were used for a commercial for the Nissan Note, with Remy and Emile watching an original commercial for it made for the "Surprisingly Spacious" ad campaign and also parodying it, respectively.
Disney/Pixar was concerned that audiences, particularly children, would not be familiar with the word "ratatouille" and its pronunciation. The title was, therefore, also spelled phonetically within trailers and on posters. For similar reasons, in the American release of the film, on-screen text in French was printed in English, such as the title of Gusteau's cookbook and the sign telling kitchen staff to wash their hands, though, in international versions such as the British English release and the US Spanish-language DVD release, these are rendered in French. In Canada, the film was released theatrically with text in English, but on DVD, the majority of the text (including Gusteau's will) was in French.
Home media.
"Ratatouille" was released by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment on Blu-ray and DVD in North America on November 6, 2007. A new animated short film featuring Remy and Emile entitled "Your Friend the Rat" was included as a special feature, in which the two rats attempt to entreat the viewer, a human, to welcome rats as their friends, demonstrating the benefits and misconceptions of rats towards humanity through several historical examples. The eleven-minute short uses 3-D animation, 2-D animation, live action and even stop-motion animation, a first for Pixar.
The disc also includes a CGI short entitled "Lifted", which was screened before the film during its theatrical run. It depicts an adolescent extraterrestrial attempting to kidnap a sleeping human. Throughout the sequence, he is graded by an adult extraterrestrial in a manner reminiscent of a driver's licensing exam road test. The entire short contains no dialogue, which is typical of Pixar Shorts not based on existing properties. Also included among the special features are deleted scenes, a featurette featuring Brad Bird discussing filmmaking and chef Thomas Keller discussing culinary creativity entitled "Fine Food and Film", and four easter eggs. Although the Region A Blu-ray edition has a French audio track, the Region 1 DVD does not, except for some copies sold in Canada.
The DVD release on November 6, 2007, earned 4,919,574 units (equivalent to US$) in its first week (November 6–11, 2007) during which it topped the DVD charts. In total it sold 12,531,266 units (US$) becoming the second-best-selling animated DVD of 2007, both in units sold and sales revenue, behind "Happy Feet". In 2014 the film was re-rendered in 3D and in July of that year was released on Blu-ray 3D in the UK, France, and India. In 2019, "Ratatouille" was released on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray.
Plagiarized film.
"If" magazine described "Ratatoing", a 2007 Brazilian computer graphics cartoon by Vídeo Brinquedo, as a "ripoff" of "Ratatouille". Marco Aurélio Canônico of the Brazilian newspaper "Folha de S.Paulo" described "Ratatoing" as a derivative of "Ratatouille". Canônico discussed whether "Ratatoing" was similar enough to "Ratatouille" to warrant a lawsuit for copyright violation. The Brazilian Ministry of Culture posted Marco Aurélio Canônico's article on its website. To date no sources have been found to indicate that Pixar took legal action.
Reception.
Box office.
In its opening weekend in North America, "Ratatouille" opened in 3,940 theaters and debuted at number one with $47.2 million, the lowest Pixar opening since "A Bug's Life". When the film opened, it topped at the box office ahead of 20th Century Fox's "Live Free or Die Hard". "Ratatouille" was the first non-sequel film to reach the number one spot since "Disturbia" debuted two months earlier. The film only stayed in its position for a few days before being taken by "Transformers". In France, where the film is set, the film broke the record for the biggest debut for an animated film and dethroned "Titanic" for the most consecutive weeks at the top of the box office. In the United Kingdom, the film debuted at number one with sales over £4 million. The film has grossed $206.4 million in the United States and Canada and a total of $623.7 million worldwide, making it the seventh-highest-grossing Pixar film.
Critical response.
The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported approval rating with an average rating of based on reviews. The site's consensus reads: "Fast-paced and stunningly animated, "Ratatouille" adds another delightfully entertaining entry—and a rather unlikely hero—to the Pixar canon." On Metacritic, it has a weighted average score of 96 out of 100 based on 37 reviews, the highest of any Pixar film (tied with "Toy Story") and the 46th highest-rated film on the site. Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade "A" on scale of A+ to F.
A. O. Scott of "The New York Times" called "Ratatouille" "a nearly flawless piece of popular art, as well as one of the most persuasive portraits of an artist ever committed to film"; echoing the character Anton Ego in the film, he ended his review with a simple "thank you" to the creators of the film. Wally Hammond of "Time Out" gave the film five out of five stars, saying "A test for tiny tots, a mite nostalgic and as male-dominated as a modern kitchen it may be, but these are mere quibbles about this delightful addition to the Pixar pantheon." Andrea Gronvall of the "Chicago Reader" gave the film a positive review, saying "Brad Bird's second collaboration with Pixar is more ambitious and meditative than his Oscar-winning "The Incredibles"." Owen Gleiberman of "Entertainment Weekly" gave the film a B, saying ""Ratatouille" has the Pixar technical magic without, somehow, the full Pixar flavor. It's Brad Bird's genial dessert, not so much incredible as merely sweetly edible." Peter Travers of "Rolling Stone" gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four, saying "What makes "Ratatouille" such a hilarious and heartfelt wonder is the way Bird contrives to let it sneak up on you. And get a load of that score from Michael Giacchino, a perfect complement to a delicious meal." James Berardinelli of "ReelViews" gave the film three out of four stars, saying "For parents looking to spend time in a theater with their kids or adults who want something lighter and less testosterone-oriented than the usual summer fare, "Ratatouille" offers a savory main course." Christy Lemire of the Associated Press gave the film a positive review, saying ""Ratatouille" is free of the kind of gratuitous pop-culture references that plague so many movies of the genre; it tells a story, it's very much of our world but it never goes for the cheap, easy gag." Justin Chang of "Variety" gave the film a positive review, saying "The master chefs at Pixar have blended all the right ingredients—abundant verbal and visual wit, genius slapstick timing, a soupcon of Gallic sophistication—to produce a warm and irresistible concoction."
Michael Phillips of the "Chicago Tribune" gave the film four out of four stars, saying "The film may be animated, and largely taken up with rats, but its pulse is gratifyingly human. And you have never seen a computer-animated feature with this sort of visual panache and detail." Rafer Guzman of "Newsday" gave the film three out of four stars, saying "So many computer-animated movies are brash, loud and popping with pop-culture comedy, but "Ratatouille" has the warm glow of a favorite book. The characters are more than the sum of their gigabyte-consuming parts – they feel handcrafted." Roger Moore of the "Orlando Sentinel" gave the film three out of five stars, saying "Has Pixar lost its magic recipe? "Ratatouille" is filled with fairly generic animated imagery, a few modest chases, a couple of good gags, not a lot of laughs." Scott Foundas of "LA Weekly" gave the film a positive review, saying "Bird has taken the raw ingredients of an anthropomorphic-animal kiddie matinee and whipped them into a heady brew about nothing less than the principles of artistic creation." Colin Covert of the "Star Tribune" gave the film four out of four stars, saying "It's not just the computer animation that is vibrantly three-dimensional. It's also the well-rounded characters… I defy you to name another animated film so overflowing with superfluous beauty." Steven Rea of "The Philadelphia Inquirer" gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four, saying "With "Ratatouille", Bird once again delivers not just a great, witty story, but dazzling visuals as well." Bill Muller of "The Arizona Republic" gave the film four-and-a-half stars out of five, saying "Like the burbling soup that plays a key part in "Ratatouille", the movie is a delectable blend of ingredients that tickles the palette and leaves you hungry for more."
Rene Rodriguez of the "Miami Herald" gave the film three out of four stars, saying ""Ratatouille" is the most straightforward and formulaic picture to date from Pixar Animation Studios, but it is also among the most enchanting and touching." Jack Mathews of the "New York Daily News" gave the film four out of four stars, saying "The Pixar magic continues with Brad Bird's "Ratatouille", a gorgeous, wonderfully inventive computer-animated comedy." Stephen Whitty of the "Newark Star-Ledger" gave the film three out of four stars, saying "Fresh family fun. Although there are those slightly noxious images of rodents scampering around a kitchen, the movie doesn't stoop to kid-pandering jokes based on backtalk and bodily gases." David Ansen of "Newsweek" gave the film a positive review, saying "A film as rich as a sauce béarnaise, as refreshing as a raspberry sorbet, and a lot less predictable than the damn food metaphors and adjectives all us critics will churn out to describe it. OK, one more and then I'll be done: it's yummy." Peter Hartlaub of the "San Francisco Chronicle" gave the film four out of four stars, saying ""Ratatouille" never overwhelms, even though it's stocked with action, romance, historical content, family drama and serious statements about the creation of art." Richard Corliss of "Time" gave the film a positive review, saying "From the moment Remy enters, crashing, to the final happy fadeout, "Ratatouille" parades the brio and depth that set Pixar apart from and above other animation studios." Roger Ebert of the "Chicago Sun-Times" gave the film four out of four stars, saying "A lot of animated movies have inspired sequels, notably "Shrek", but Brad Bird's "Ratatouille" is the first one that made me positively desire one." Peter Howell of the "Toronto Star" gave the film four out of four stars, saying "Had Bird gone the safe route, he would have robbed us of a great new cartoon figure in Remy, who like the rest of the film is rendered with animation that is at once fanciful and life-like. It's also my pick for Pixar's best."
Joe Morgenstern of "The Wall Street Journal" gave the film a positive review, saying "The characters are irresistible, the animation is astonishing and the film, a fantasy version of a foodie rhapsody, sustains a level of joyous invention that hasn't been seen in family entertainment since "The Incredibles"." Kenneth Turan of the "Los Angeles Times" gave the film four-and-a-half stars out of five, saying "Brad Bird's "Ratatouille" is so audacious you have to fall in love with its unlikely hero." Claudia Puig of "USA Today" gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four, saying ""Ratatouille" is delicious fun sure to be savored by audiences of all ages for its sumptuous visuals, clever wit and irresistibly inspiring tale." Miriam Di Nunzio of the "Chicago Sun-Times" gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four, saying ""Ratatouille" will make you wonder why animation needs to hide behind the mantle of 'it's for children, but grownups will like it, too.' This one's for Mom and Dad, and yep, the kids will like it, too." Michael Booth of "The Denver Post" gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four, saying "Writer and director Brad Bird keeps "Ratatouille" moving without resorting to the cute animal jokes or pop-culture wisecracking that ruined so many other recent animated films." Tom Long of "The Detroit News" gave the film an A, saying ""Ratatouille" has the technical genius, emotional core and storytelling audacity to lift it into the ranks of [the best] Pixar films, the crème de la crème of modern animation." Liam Lacey of "The Globe and Mail" gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four, saying "No sketchy backgrounds here—"Ratatouille"'s scenes feel like deep-focus camera shots. The textures, from the gleam of copper pans to the cobblestone streets, are almost palpable." Desson Thomson of "The Washington Post" gave the film a positive review, saying ""Ratatouille" doesn't center on the over-familiar surfaces of contemporary life. It harks back to Disney's older era when cartoons seemed part of a more elegant world with less edgy characters."
Accolades.
"Ratatouille" won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at the 80th Academy Awards and was nominated for four others: Best Original Score, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, Best Original Screenplay, losing to "Atonement", "The Bourne Ultimatum" (for both Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing), and "Juno", respectively. With five Oscar nominations, the film broke the record for an animated feature film, surpassing the four nominations each of "Aladdin", "Monsters, Inc.", "Finding Nemo", and "The Incredibles". As of 2013, "Ratatouille" is tied with "Up" and "Toy Story 3" for the second-most Oscar nominations for an animated film, behind "Beauty and the Beast" and "WALL-E" (six).
Furthermore, "Ratatouille" was nominated for 13 Annie Awards including twice in the Best Animated Effects, where it lost to "Surf's Up", and three times in the Best Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production for Janeane Garofalo, Ian Holm, and Patton Oswalt, where Ian Holm won the award. It won the Best Animated Feature Award from multiple associations including the Chicago Film Critics, the National Board of Review, the Annie Awards, the Broadcast Film Critics, the British Academy of Film and Television (BAFTA), and the Golden Globes.
Legacy.
Video game.
A primary video game adaptation of the film, titled "Ratatouille", was released on June 26, 2007 for Xbox 360, Wii, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Xbox, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, PlayStation Portable, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Java ME, and mobile phones. A PlayStation 3 version was released on October 23, 2007.
A Nintendo DS exclusive game, titled "", was released in October 2007.
"Ratatouille" is also among the films represented in "", released in March 2012 for Xbox 360.
Remy is featured in the video game "Kingdom Hearts III". He appears as the head chef for Scrooge McDuck's bistro and participates with Sora in cooking minigames. He is addressed only as "Little Chef" in the game, as he does not speak and cannot reveal his name to the characters.
Remy, Linguini and Colette appear as playable characters in the world builder game "Disney Magic Kingdoms", in addition to attractions based on Gusteau's Kitchen and Remy's Ratatouille Adventure. In the game, the characters are involved in new storylines that serve as a continuation of the events of the film.
In the video game "Disney Dreamlight Valley", Remy appears as one of the characters that the player meets during the progress of the story, being the owner of the valley's restaurant, "Chez Remy".
Theme park attraction.
A Disney theme park attraction based on the film has been constructed in Walt Disney Studios Park, Disneyland Paris. is based upon scenes from the film and uses trackless ride technology. In the attraction, riders "shrink down to the size of a rat".
At the 2017 D23 Expo, Disney announced the attraction would be built at the France Pavilion in Epcot's World Showcase which opened on October 1, 2021, during the 50th anniversary of Walt Disney World and the 39th anniversary of Epcot.
Unofficial musical.
In late 2020, users of the social media app TikTok crowdsourced the creation of a musical based on the film. A virtual concert presentation of it, produced by Seaview Productions, streamed for 72 hours on TodayTix beginning January 1, 2021 to benefit The Actors Fund in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is directed by "Six" co-creator and co-director Lucy Moss from a script adaptation by Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley, both of whom co-executive produced the concert with Jeremy O. Harris. The cast included Kevin Chamberlin as Gusteau, Andrew Barth Feldman as Linguini, Titus Burgess as Remy, Adam Lambert as Emile, Wayne Brady as Django, Priscilla Lopez as Mabel, Ashley Park as Colette, André De Shields as Anton Ego, Owen Tabaka as Young Anton Ego and Mary Testa as Skinner. The concert raised over $1.9 million for The Actors Fund.
References in popular culture.
The film has often been referenced in popular culture since its release, being mentioned or parodied on shows such as "Saturday Night Live", "My Name Is Earl", "The Simpsons", "Breaking Bad", "Key & Peele", "Orange Is the New Black", "Teen Titans Go!", "Difficult People", "The Good Place", "Once Upon a Time", "Brooklyn Nine-Nine", and "Ted Lasso", as well as in the films "The Five-Year Engagement" (2012), "The Suicide Squad" (2021), "" (2023), and in comedian John Mulaney's comedy special "New in Town".
A parody of "Ratatouille" is a significant plot thread in the 2022 science-fiction film "Everything Everywhere All at Once". In the middle of the film, the main character Evelyn Wang (Michelle Yeoh) attempts to explain the multiverse and the concept of "verse-jumping" (temporarily linking one’s consciousness to another version of themselves in a different universe, and accessing all the emotions, memories, and skills in the process) to her family using the Pixar film as an analogy, only to misremember it as being about a raccoon and being titled "Raccacoonie". Later, in one of several parallel universes, Evelyn is a "teppanyaki" chef who works with another "teppanyaki" chef named Chad (Harry Shum Jr.) who is indeed being puppeteered by the anthropomorphic Raccacoonie (voiced by Randy Newman) who is hiding under Chad's chef hat, much like Remy and Linguini; during the film's climactic montage, Evelyn exposes Raccacoonie and he is taken away by animal control, before she has a change of heart and helps Chad rescue Raccacoonie. Reportedly inspired by producer Jonathan Wang's father's habit of misremembering the names of popular films, the running joke was described by "IGN" as "one of the film's highlights", while Alison Herman of "The Ringer" noted a thematic resonance as both films were about "the virtues of creativity within material constraints".
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Rat Farm
Rat Farm is the fourteenth full-length studio album by the Meat Puppets. It was released on April 16, 2013, through Megaforce Records.
Background and recording.
Background and writing.
On writing the music Curt Kirkwood remarked: "I tried to write stuff that would stand on its own — just the chords and the melodies, and play it kind of straight... I think that was the guiding boundary that I gave myself. It was one of those things where a lot of times, in the past especially, Cris (bassist Cris Kirkwood) would go, ‘Well, that's all there is? Let's put a prog rock part in the middle.’ But I tried to hold it off as much as I could."
Content.
Musical style.
Lucy Jones of British music publication "NME" adjudged "Rat Farm" as "gently fried country-rock and psychedelia" and its guitar solos to be "Neil Young-worthy".
Curt Kirkwood, the band's singer/guitarist and primary songwriter, described the album as "real blown-out folk music".
Reception.
As of June 2013, based on 17 reviews, "Rat Farm" has a score of 74 on Metacritic, indicating "generally favorable reviews". This is the highest score of their albums released since 2000. The Independent described the album as "dizzying psychedelic country in finest Meat Puppets tradition, full of slightly off-centre harmonies in Grateful Dead manner, and plenty of Kirkwood's swirling, trippy guitar." Allmusic said: "The tracks on their 14th outing are the closest they've come in a long time to the colorful, no-frills brand of twangy alt-rock and informal punk (with hints of Americana, country, folk, and prog) that they instilled on their SST records." The Austin Chronicle said that Curt Kirkwood "continues penning some of the strongest, sweetest, and compellingly twisted material of his already storied songwriting career," and that "[t]here's enough distorted weirdness, easygoing melodies, and guitar both hard and jangly to demonstrate why the Meat Puppets influenced both Nirvana and R.E.M."
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Rat-on-a-stick
Dish of roasted rat on a skewer
Rat-on-a-stick, also referred to as rat kebab, is a dish or snack consisting of a roasted rat served on a stick or skewer. The dish is consumed in Thailand and Vietnam. Prior to roasting, the rat is typically skinned and washed, after which it is gutted to remove its internal organs and then roasted.
By country.
Rat meat is considered by some people in South Vietnam, East and Northeast India, and Thailand to be a delicacy. In recent times, its popularity has increased in both countries. It is also served as a street food in these countries. Rat kebab became so popular it also started to appear in a number of elegant restaurants. Rat kebab is also a dish in some Cantonese recipes.
Source of rats.
According to a BBC report, the rats are wild, and caught by professionals using traps.
In popular culture.
Rat-on-a-stick has been consumed by contestants on the U.S. reality television show "Survivor".
On 14 March 2019, Vietnamese rat meat has been featured on National Geographic.
In the movie "Demolition Man", Sylvester Stallone's character inadvertently orders a hamburger made of rat meat.
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The Rat (song)
"The Rat" is a song by American indie rock band the Walkmen. It was released as the first single from their second studio album, "Bows + Arrows" (2004), on April 19, 2004. The song peaked at number 45 on the UK Singles Chart.
Composition and recording.
Singer Hamilton Leithauser said the song originated in a jam session when the band were "just screwin' around." The band's drummer Matt Barrick instigated the track by playing a fast drum pattern. The band then quickly built this foundation into the full track. Leithauser said "we threw some chords on it, I wrote the words in five minutes." The song had been included in the band's live sets as early as February 2002, with slightly different lyrics than the recorded version.
The band's usual method was to self-produce their material. However, after unsuccessful attempts to record the layered electric organ and guitar, they decided to record the track with a professional record producer at the advice of their label. This was later viewed as an unsatisfactory move by bassist Walter Martin who said "It doesn't sound right at all. I think the production for the rest of the album makes the music sound big and live. But it just sounds dense and solid."
Ezra Koenig, who worked as an intern for the band, says the song was originally titled "Girls At Night" and was recorded a year after it was first played to him.
Music video.
The video features a live performance shot in black and white making use of chiaroscuro and directed by filmmaker Eva Aridjis.
Critical reception.
The track has received highly positive critical acclaim, featuring in many end-of-decade lists. It was named thirteenth best track of the decade by "NME" and 20th best track of the 2000s by Pitchfork Media who named it "a St. Valentine's Day Massacre of relentless drums, bass, and guitar." "Rolling Stone" called it "one of the greatest songs of the century". "Modern Drummer" magazine praised Barrick's performance as "a jaw-dropping exercise in precision and velocity".
In October 2011, "NME" placed it at number 31 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years".
"Stylus Magazine" took a different slant saying that the song's 'one-hit wonder' success "was the worst thing to ever happen to The Walkmen. It brought the iPod-lazy—singles, MP3s, mix and matchers—to their shows and records."
The song is featured on the soundtracks of "Major League Baseball 2K7", ', and '.
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City Rats
City Rats is a feature film set in London, UK released on 24 April 2009 and starring Tamer Hassan, Ray Panthaki, Susan Lynch, Kenny Doughty, MyAnna Buring, James Lance and Natasha Williams and Danny Dyer.
Release.
The film premiered as part of the East End Film Festival at the Genesis Cinema Whitechapel on 24 April 2009. The following Monday it was also released on DVD and Blu-ray, reaching number 6 in the UK DVD charts, as well going on to have a limited run in cinemas.
Critical reception.
Critical reaction to "City Rats" has been universally negative, with the film being one of a select few to earn a 0% rating at Rotten Tomatoes.
Music.
The score for this film was composed by Mark Maclaine and Julia Johnson from London-based post-trip hop band Second Person and includes the track "Paper Umbrella". Other tracks were provided by Spencer Hickson.
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In the Kitchen (disambiguation)
"In the Kitchen" is a song by R. Kelly.
In The Kitchen may also refer to:
Books.
Topics referred to by the same term
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The Rats (British band)
English rock band
The Rats were an English rock band, first established in 1963, from Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
In 1966, Mick Ronson joined The Rats, then including singer Benny Marshall, bassist Geoff Appleby and drummer Jim Simpson (who was subsequently replaced by Clive Taylor and then John Cambridge). The group played the local circuit and made a few unsuccessful trips to London and Paris. In 1967, The Rats recorded the one-off psychedelic track, "The Rise and Fall of Bernie Gripplestone" at Fairview Studios in Willerby, Hull, and can be heard on the 2008 release "Front Room Masters – Fairview Studios 1966–1973". 1968 saw the band change their name briefly to Treacle and book another recording session at Fairview Studios in 1969, before reverting to their original name. Around this time, Ronson was recommended by Rick Kemp to play guitar on Michael Chapman's "Fully Qualified Survivor" album.
In 1968, Keith "Ched" Cheesman joined The Rats replacing Geoff Appleby on bass and the line-up of Ronson, Marshall, Cheesman and Cambridge entered Fairview studio to record "Guitar Boogie", "Stop and Get A Hold of Myself" and "Morning Dew". When John Cambridge left The Rats to join his former Hullaballoos bandmate Mick Wayne in Junior's Eyes, he was replaced by Mick "Woody" Woodmansey. In November 1969, the band recorded a final session at Fairview, taping "Telephone Blues" and "Early in Spring".
In May 1998, the independent record label, Angel Air released a CD compilation of their work, entitled "The Rats' Rise and Fall of Bernie Gripplestone and the Rats From Hull".
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In the Kitchen
"In the Kitchen" is a song by R. Kelly, released domestically in 2005 as a double A-side single together with "Trapped in the Closet (Chapter 1)". Both songs are from the studio album "TP.3 Reloaded". It also served internationally as the B-side to "Playa's Only" featuring The Game.
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The Three Rats (film)
The Three Rats (Spanish:Las Tres Ratas) is a 1946 Argentine drama film of the classical era of Argentine cinema, directed by Carlos Schlieper and starring Mecha Ortiz, Amelia Bence and María Duval. It is an adaptation of Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco's 1944 novel of the same title.
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Rat Pack Rat
Rat Pack Rat is a 2014 drama short film, written and directed by Todd Rohal. The film had its premiere at 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 17, 2014. It won the "Jury Award" at the festival.
The film later screened at "2014 SXSW Film Festival" on March 8, 2014. It also marks the final motion picture performance of Eddie Rouse, who died on December 7, 2014, of liver failure.
Plot.
A Sammy Davis Jr. impersonator, was hired by a Rat Pack fan's mother to perform on his birthday.
Reception.
"Rat Pack Rat" received mostly positive reviews from critics. Kat Smith of "The Hollywood News" gave the film four out of five stars and praised the film by saying that "This short will keep you engaged and guessing where the story is going right up until the last minute." Liz Whittemore of "Cinemit", gave the film a positive review that "Rat Pack Rat will leave you with mouth gaping open at the end, it is worth every cringe-worthy second."
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Rat meat
Meat from rats used as food
Rat meat is the meat of various species of rat: medium-sized, long-tailed rodents. It is a food that, while taboo in some cultures, is a dietary staple in others. Taboos include fears of disease or religious prohibition, but in many places, the high number of rats has led to their incorporation into the local diets.
Regionally.
Africa.
In Malawi of East Africa, people there hunted field mice in corn fields for food: they strung the mice on sticks and cooked, salted or dried the mice as a popular delicacy in markets and roadside stalls. In Sub-Saharan Africa where cane rats are found, some people have the habit of eating them.
Americas.
Rat stew was once consumed in West Virginia, the dish having originated during economic hardship due to a collapse in the mining industry. The dish is an example of roadkill cuisine and has appeared in the Marlington Roadkill Cook-off.
Asia.
In some cultures, rats are or have been limited as an acceptable form of food to a particular social or economic class. In the Mishmi culture of India, rats are essential to the traditional diet, as Mishmi women may eat no meat except fish, pork, wild birds and rats. Conversely, the Musahar community in north India has commercialised rat farming as an exotic delicacy.
Ricefield rat ("Rattus argentiventer") meat is eaten in Vietnamese, Taiwanese, Cambodian and Chinese cuisines. Rat-on-a-stick is a roasted rat dish consumed in Vietnam and Cambodia.
A 2020 study on wildlife trade in three southern Vietnamese provinces found that 55 percent of the field rats sold in tested restaurants were carrying a coronavirus.
Europe.
In Victorian Britain rich and poor ate rat pie. During food rationing due to World War II, British biologists were known to eat laboratory rats, creamed.
A recipe for grilled rats, Bordeaux-style, calls for the use of alcoholic rats who live in wine cellars. These rats are skinned and eviscerated, brushed with a thick sauce of olive oil and crushed shallots, and grilled over a fire of broken wine barrels.
In Valencia, Spain, Ricefield rat ("Rattus argentiventer") meat was immortalized by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez in his novel "Cañas y barro". Along with eel and local beans known as "garrafons", "rata de marjal" (marsh rat) is one of the main ingredients in traditional paella (later replaced by rabbit, chicken and seafood).
Polynesia.
In the traditional cultures of the Hawaiians and the Polynesians, rat was an everyday food for commoners. When feasting, the Polynesian people of Rapa Nui could eat rat meat, but the king was not allowed to, due to the islanders' belief in his "state of sacredness" called "tapu". In studying precontact archaeological sites in Hawaii, archaeologists have found the concentration of the remains of rats associated with commoner households accounted for three times the animal remains associated with elite households. The rat bones found in all sites are fragmented, burned and covered in carbonized material, indicating the rats were eaten as food. The greater occurrence of rat remains associated with commoner households may indicate the elites of precontact Hawaii did not consume them as a matter of status or taste.
Middle East (and Middle Eastern Religions).
Elsewhere in the world, rat meat is considered diseased and unclean, socially unacceptable, or there are strong religious proscriptions against it. Islam and Kashrut traditions prohibit it.
South America.
Both the Shipibo people of Peru and Sirionó people of Bolivia have cultural taboos against the eating of rats.
As food for pets.
Rats are a common food item for snakes, both in the wild, and as pets. Adult rat snakes and ball pythons, for example, are fed a diet of mostly rats in captivity. Rats are readily available (live or frozen) to individual snake owners, as well as to pet shops and reptile zoos, from many suppliers. In Britain, the Animal Welfare Act 2006 "legally required that prey be killed before feeding unless absolutely necessary for the health of the predator." The rule was put into place mainly because of the pressure of the RSPCA and people who said the feeding of live animals was cruel.
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Ratcity in Blue
Ratcity in Blue is a 1976 album by the Good Rats and was released on the Platinum Records label.
Track listing.
Words and music by Peppi Marchello—arranged by the Good Rats
† Bonus track on Jem / Ratcity Records re-issue

Classics (Ratatat album)
Classics is the second full-length album from Ratatat, released on August 22, 2006. As with their first album, "Classics" is almost entirely instrumental, with the only exception being a large cat-like sound sample used in "Wildcat."
During a September 15, 2006 interview on radio station KEXP, the band revealed that part of the album was recorded in upstate New York in a house owned by Björk.
This album produced three singles: "Lex", "Wildcat", and "Loud Pipes".
The track "Tropicana" was featured in the 2007 film "Knocked Up" and "Loud Pipes" was featured in the video game "".
The track "Nostrand" was featured in a "so-called" Music video named "Typolution".
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Rats (Ghost song)
"Rats" is a song by the Swedish rock band Ghost. It was released as the first single from their fourth album "Prequelle". The track topped the "Billboard" Mainstream Rock Songs chart in July 2018, and was nominated for the Best Rock Song Grammy Award at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards.
Background and release.
The song debuted on April 12, 2018, on SiriusXM, and was officially released the following day. The song is the lead single from Ghost's fourth studio album, "Prequelle", ahead of the album's release on June 1. As with prior music with the band, the song was created by Tobias Forge and a group of anonymous band members called "Nameless Ghouls". However, the song was the first to feature Forge's new alter ego stage name, Cardinal Copia, and was performed by a separate set of anonymous band members than prior material, with all prior band members leaving the band in 2017 following a lawsuit with Forge regarding pay. The song's music video was also released on April 13. Journalists noted that the video's style and dancing appeared to be influenced by Michael Jackson's music video for his song "Thriller".
Themes and composition.
Forge wrote the track to serve as "a big opening track that just blows people's minds immediately". The song was also written to be performed as a concert opener for large arena shows; he previously wrote "Square Hammer" for that purpose, and was successful with it, but didn't want to feel stuck always playing one particular song as a concert opener, as he perceived is what happened to the Rolling Stones with their song "Start Me Up". Greg Kennelty of "Metal Injection" described the song as sounding similar to 1980s Ozzy Osbourne, calling it "as heavy metal as you wanted it to be, with killer guitar solos, a badass drum intro, and riffs that sound like they might've been sitting in Ozzy's basement since the 80s." Forge himself confirmed that the song's creation was influenced by hearing Osbourne open up a concert with their song "I Don't Know" off of their 1980 album "Blizzard of Ozz" in the 1980s.
Lyrically, the song is about humanity's tendency to rush to judgement and mob mentality. Forge explained: <templatestyles src="Template:Blockquote/styles.css" />"In many ways, [humanity has] gone back a few steps, because now it's closer to how it was back in the old days when people were standing at the square and all of a sudden, it's like in "Monty Python's Life of Brian": 'Stone him! Ra! Ra! Ra!' Public trials are very unsupervised and extremely swift and speak to the most primordial parts of us...It's actually not technically about rodents, it's about something spreading as wildfire and completely destroying things quicker than you know. It was how the plague started in Europe.
Reception.
Kennelty praised the song for being "darker" and "heavier" than the material from their prior album "Meliora", concluding that "if you've been dying for something like Ghost's debut album "Opus Eponymous" with a more updated sound, then you're going to absolutely love 'Rats'." Vince Neilstein of Metal Sucks similarly praised it for its catchy guitar riffs.
Personnel.
Credits adapted from liner notes.
Charts.
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Rat Race (Child's Play song)
1986 song by Child's Play
"Rat Race" is a song written by Child'ƨ Play members Nicky Kay and John Allen for their debut EP Ruff House and eventually re-recorded with some added songwriting from bassist Marion Idzi for their debut studio album of the same name.
Ruff House version.
The song originally appeared on the band's EP Ruff House and was slightly different from the version that would appear on their debut studio album, with the biggest notable change being a spoken word passage between a boy's father walking in his room, telling him to get a job, cut his hair, and get his girlfriend out of the house.
Music video.
The music video featured the band playing the song on an empty stage. Brian Jack and John Allen sing their respective lines of the song while Nicky Kay and Idzi play their guitars while spinning their hair and headbanging. When it comes time for the second guitar solo, a guitar is thrown to Jack from off screen and he plays the solo. The video features film reel graphics and rats running across the screen occasionally.
References.
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Tasty (Good Rats album)
Tasty is a 1974 album by Good Rats and was released on the Warner Brothers Records label.
Track listings.
Words and music by Peppi Marchello – arranged by Good Rats
A 2018 Record Store Day vinyl album had a different track ordering and added a bonus track:
11. "Melting Pot Cookbook (Bonus Demo)" 3:35

Rat (film)
2000 film by Steve Barron
Rat is a 2000 comedy film directed by Steve Barron and starring Imelda Staunton and Pete Postlethwaite. The film focuses on the transformation of a working-class man into a rat and how his family copes with the startling change. The film's scenario is partly based on Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis".
Plot.
After his usual night of drinking at the local pub, Hubert Flynn (Pete Postlethwaite) returns home and transforms into a rat. Hubert's family each have different views on him now that he became a rodent. His wife Conchita (Imelda Staunton) thinks that this change is supposed to be a lesson to Hubert and that the reason he transformed is his own fault. Their son Pius (Andrew Lovern), destined for a religious life, feels that because his father is now an animal, his family should kill him. Their daughter Marietta (