12-16-2008, 07:00
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Guinea Pig - Not Just Another Pork Feast
Are hard times threatening your Christmas dinner? If so, Peru has the answer: guinea pigs. 
Richard's $.02 
Peru's cash-strapped Christmas treat: Guinea Pig
Officials in the coastal Peruvian province of Callao on Monday hailed the Andean rodent as a low-cost, low-fat alternative to a traditional turkey or roast pork Christmas dinner.
Guinea pigs, long eaten by Peruvians, can feed seven or eight people for about $3.20.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081215/...g3Ks1eJCK3IxIF
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12-16-2008, 07:56
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Hay do not knock my pet/Dinner....
They are a multi functional animal. Keeps the kids happy and their belly's full for near to nothing...... Plus you can make some nice ear muffs, gloves, etc
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12-16-2008, 09:37
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I can hear the ad campaign now - "Guinea pig - the other, other white meat!"
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12-16-2008, 10:09
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My neighbor was in the oil business and spent 5 yrs in the Peruvian Mts. He met and married a local young lady who had just graduated from the local university in Lima with her geo-physics deg.
Last year at our Xmas party my wife & the 'girls' were talking about local tradition,, ie: NY, Texas, Georgia, Scotland...
Can you hear it coming??
Young Teresa pipped up that her mom not only helped her pay for her degree,, but made all her X-mas present money by selling and cooking...
I have to add,, most of the ladies took Teresa's statement at face value. The lady from Georgia even asked for a recipe, thinking it could apply to fox squirrel. The sole exception was the Lady from NY, who was a ACLU lawyer,, she left early...
Bada Bing...
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12-16-2008, 10:35
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What's next? 
Richard's $.02
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12-16-2008, 13:04
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SF_BHT
Hay do not knock my pet/Dinner....
They are a multi functional animal. Keeps the kids happy and their belly's full for near to nothing...... Plus you can make some nice ear muffs, gloves, etc
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LOL, that appears to be the case with my nieces and nephews. I didn't know it was possible for a rat to get so fat from eating romaine lettuce.
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12-19-2008, 09:45
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Anthony Bourdain's "No Reservations" featured Peru last night replete with guinea pig roast. My 3 yr. old granddaughter oohed and aahed over the cute little guinea pigs and wants a few, not just one, for Christmas (fat chance). Knowing what was coming I sent her to help her grandmother in the kitchen. She came back in as Bourdain was gnawing on a nicely browned hindquarter. Didn't make the connection. They looked pretty tasty but kind of scrawny. Maybe if they were stuffed with hamsters?
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12-19-2008, 13:17
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Bizarre Foods also did a bit on Peruvian foods, and the guinea pig was of course included. I have a friend that's tried it when he was in Peru last and he said it wasn't that great, although he likes squirrel.
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12-19-2008, 14:01
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although he likes squirrel.
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Growing up I had squirrel a lot, mostly in gravy it’s great. 
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12-19-2008, 14:20
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Wanna bet?
Tastes like chicken.
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12-19-2008, 14:44
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Richard, of all your pictures of pigs....my favorite pig is the one on the squash bike.....muy jugosa poppi
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12-19-2008, 23:07
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Never had it whole.
Think it was halved and served on a stick last time I had guinea pig.
IIRC, at a special dinner we also had little baby rabbits... pretty much could eat the bones and all because they were so small. Naturally they were considered a special delicacy.
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12-20-2008, 08:45
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Well I have escaped the Bolivian Nightmare and I will see if I can get you some Holiday photos...... It is a Highlands tradition not one here on the coast or the jungle.
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