Me just ranting. Well my day has been a complete **** show. A ******* tourists rat bastard dog just killed 7 of my lambs and tore off the faces of three ewes. And now I have to get more ******* paperwork and legal **** to get compensation from the owner for the cost of the dead lambs. **** MY LIFE.
The Lunar Calendar may read that this is the Year of the Dragon, but so far in Chicago it looks like theYearoftheRat…Hole.
Even though a squirrel may have left the indentation, this story has provided viral gold to news organizations all around town and beyond. We at Eater are simultaneously champing and chomping at the bit for a food-related angle to show itself. But will it? Or will we yet again stand around lonely, fumbling our thumbs and watching another story of the century pass us by? We vowed Chance the Snapper wouldn’t happen to us ever again, yet here we are. Sure, locals might be sick of the rat hole, but the rest of the country is hungry for rat hole content. To sate them, here are 28 completely untrue restaurant world headlines related to Chicago’s rat hole.
The Rat Hole now shows up on Google Maps.Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images
Will ‘The Bear’ Feature the Rat Hole in Season 3?
Grant Achatz’s New Alinea Menu Pays Tribute to the Rat Hole
Lou Malnati’s Rat Hole-Shaped Deep-Dish Pizza Wins Over ‘Emily in Paris’
Swedish Bakery Returns for Fat Tuesday With Rat Hole Paczkis
Lettuce Entertain You Rebrands RPM Italian, Swaps ‘Rancics’ For ‘Rat Hole’
CH Distillery Finally Takes Malört Too Far With New Rat Hole Infusion
Kroger Discards Jewel and Mariano’s Brands for Rat Hole Finer Foods
Hogsalt to Open Sexy New French West Loop Spot, Randolph’s Rat Hole
Disney Threatens to Sue Hogsalt Over ‘Ratatouille’-Themed French Restaurant
Harold’s Chicken to Sell Mild Sauce in Rat Hole-Shaped Bottles
Rat Hole Enrages Rick Bayless Even Though He Hasn’t Seen It In Person
Stephanie Izard Reinvents Herself With This Little Rat Hole Diner
I Drank Jeppson’s Malört Out of the Rat Hole and Lived to Tell the Tale
Goose Island Launches Rat Hole County Stout Aged in Rat Holes Made From 3D Printers
Inside the Rat Hole, A Not-So-Family-Friendly Affair in Roscoe Village
Rat Hole Pops Up in Hyde Park; It’s as Far South as It Will Go
JP Graziano Announces Limited Edition Rat Hole Giardiniera Collab With Old Style
What to Serve and Wear at a Rat Hole-Inspired Party
Rat Hole 2.0 to Open in Avondale With More Seating, Expanded Menu
Wieners Circle Staffer Yells ‘You Look Like a Rat Hole, Bitch’ at Tearful Customer
Vandal Fills Rat Hole With Ketchup, Discovers a Use for the Hated Condiment
The St. Louis Department of Provel Claims It Discovered the Rat Hole First
Jean Banchet Committee to Honor Rat Hole With Its Lifetime Achievement Award Presented by Jones BBQ and Foot Massage
Ten Speed Press to Release ‘Cookery Fit For a Rat Hole’ With Forward by Paul Kahan
DoorDash Unveils DJ Khaled’s Rat Hole, a New Virtual Restaurant
Foxtrot Debuts Rat Hole At-Home Meal Kits
The Rat Hole Is Eater Chicago’s Restaurant of the Year
Readers Ask Eater to Stop Writing About the Rat Hole — Go Back to Covering ‘The Bear’
An ultra-rare gigantic rat so big that it puts New York City’s subway-dwelling rodents to shame has been caught on camera for the first time.
Uromys vika, a giant rat known for being “one of the world’s rarest rodents” according to the University of Melbourne, is found in just one isolated spot throughout the world – the island of Vangunu in the Solomon Islands. The species was only first identified by a single animal discovered in 2017, but recently, university researchers said that after placing out glass oil lamps filled with sesame oil, they captured 95 images of four different animals in the species using trap cameras, the first images to document the species.
It’s believed that of the animals documented, one is a male while the others are female.
While little is known about the species, scientists are sure of one thing – they’re huge.
The Vangunu giant rat is the first new species of rodent described from Solomon Islands in over 80 years.
Courtesy of Dr. Tyrone Lavery/University of Melbourne
“The rare giant rat is at least twice the size of a common rat, is tree-dwelling and reportedly can chew through coconuts with its teeth,” the University of Melbourne said in a press release. According to science news site LiveScience, the rodents can grow to be about a foot-and-a-half long – about the size of a newborn baby.
Along with their large bodies, the rodents are also known to have long tails and “very short ears,” researchers found.
The rodent species is considered to be critically endangered, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List, as the region in which it lives is just a 210-square-mile island. The area in which it has been found is a forest area less than 30 square miles that’s been rapidly declining due to logging.
The discovery of the giant rat in 2017 was the first time in more than 80 years a new rodent species had been identified in the Solomon Islands.
“Capturing images of the Vangunu giant rat for the first time is extremely positive news for this poorly known species,” lead study author Tyrone Lavery from the University of Melbourne said. “… The images show the Vangunu giant rat lives in Zaira’s primary forests, and these lands (particularly the Dokoso tribal area) represent the last remaining habitat for the species. Logging consent has been granted at Zaira, and if it proceeds it will undoubtably lead to extinction of the Vangunu giant rat.”
