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April 8, 2009 at 6:23 am #590433
SivaHPMemberHere is an interesting video about a couple in australia and how they are self-sufficent. They eat guinnea pigs (not graphic)
Here is the thing. Guinnea pigs are really popular in South America. The incas were the first people to domesticate Guinnea pigs because they were easy to keep and a good source of protein. It is still common among the people in the highlands. Over there it is called Cuy. Hmmm, I wonder if it is all that good. Maybe if we all stopped eating beef and started eating Cuy we would help save the environment. Interesting idea….
April 8, 2009 at 6:43 am #663933
JiggersMemberMmmmm… tastes like rabitt.
April 8, 2009 at 8:10 am #663934
SivaHPMemberReally? Have you actually tried it?
April 8, 2009 at 11:44 pm #663935
GarybertMemberWe were in Peru about three years ago. We had cuy at least three times. Tastes like a cross between spotted owl and bald eagle. But seriously folks, it is cut into chunks and roasted and has flavors of pork and some kind of game bird. Poor people raise them in their houses in a dedicated room and then sell them at market. Easy to raise as they live on scraps from the kitchen and multiply like rabbits. Cuy is readibly available at restaurants and a complete meal is probably less than ten dollars.
April 9, 2009 at 3:42 am #663936
JoBParticipanti have been curious.. but not curious enough to raise them for consumption.
somehow i don’t think that would go over well with the grandkids:(
April 9, 2009 at 4:39 am #663937
HMC RichParticipantIn Belize they call Iguana Bamboo Chicken. Rice and Beans, Rum Punch, and Bamboo Chicken!!! mmmmm.
I couldn’t do it. I did have Rice and Beans and the Rum of course.
I guess I will just have to think of Cuy as short eared bunnies. Maybe not.
April 9, 2009 at 7:49 am #663938
SivaHPMemberI couldn’t eat Iguana. I have a 9 year old Iguana as a pet and I really can’t eat anything that I have had as a pet. Poor guy.
On the other hand I have always found guinnea pigs to be quite annoying so I would eat one.
I would just have a problem with it being served on its back and spread eagle with the head, arms and legs still intact. I heard that the brains are good, but I do stop there.
I thought it was pretty funny that this couple cook the cuy in a sandwich grill.
HAHAHHA!
April 9, 2009 at 7:51 am #663939
SivaHPMemberDo a youtube search with Cuy as the title and there are more graphic videos on how they prepare it.
If I had to watch beef, chicken or pork get killed, I think it would be harder to eat it!
April 9, 2009 at 2:33 pm #663940
JoBParticipantSivaHP..
iguana is good.. better than rattlesnake…
it’s all a point of view, isn’t it?
In New Zealand i nearly bought an oppossum coat even though i wouldn’t normally buy fur.. they are nuisance critters here and it seemed fitting they should end up in a coat…
i think it may be the same with what we eat. it all depends upon your perspective…
HMCRich..
i’d have bet on you eating the bamboo chicken :) i did.
As a guest, I even ate the lucky chicken foot and did my best to pretend to feel honored.
the deep fried and dried insects required booze to wash them down:(
April 10, 2009 at 6:48 am #663941
SivaHPMemberOkay that is just sick! Insects? Also lucky chicken foot sounds nasty.
Stick with rare steak and baked potato! Hmmmmm.
April 10, 2009 at 4:40 pm #663942
JoBParticipantSivaHP..
the insects weren’t as nasty as i expected and the chicken foot was really pretty good once i got over the idea of a chicken foot…
but then, i am one of those people who practically sucks the marrow out of porkchop bones:)
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