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[Ripclawe]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/peru_guinea_pig

LIMA, Peru - After 34 years of patient tinkering, researchers at Peru's most prestigious agrarian university have bred a new culinary export they hope will scamper onto dinner plates throughout America and the world: the super guinea pig.

Peruvians consume an estimated 65 million guinea pigs each year. It is a dining experience that normally requires two hands to pick scant, sinewy meat from a bony carcass — often with the head staring up from the plate.

Segundo Quispe, left, and his nephew Maximo Quispe eat guinea pig in a restaurant in Lima, Peru on Monday, Oct. 18, 2004.

A woman asks for the price of guinea pig in a market in Lima, Peru on Friday, Oct. 15, 2004. After 34 years of patient tinkering, researchers at Peru's most prestigious agrarian university have bred a new culinary export they hope will scamper onto dinner plates throughout America and the world: the super guinea pig.(AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Humberto Yaringano carries a guinea pig at Agrarian university in Lima, Peru on Friday, Oct. 15, 2004. After 34 years of patient tinkering, researchers at Peru's most prestigious agrarian university have bred a new culinary export they hope will scamper onto dinner plates throughout America and the world: the super guinea pig. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

 

[CoryCubed]

I'd like one supersized with a Dr. Pepper

 

[Chopin Trusty Balls]

2Cute2die

 

[bishoptl]

:lol

Well, just because we raise 'em as pets doesn't mean the rest of the world sees it that way. Chow down on Fluffy, Peruvians!

 

[fennec fox]

They're evil anyway

 

[levious]

I believe Peru also gave the world the potato... GIVE IT A CHANCE!

 

[Particle Physicist]

its actually looks kinida tasty

 

[DarienA]

OMFG where is a certain poster when you need them....

 

[Ripclawe]

:lol

Well, just because we raise 'em as pets doesn't mean the rest of the world sees it that way. Chow down on Fluffy, Peruvians!

"we must be eaten???? *sniff sniffs*"

 

[Zaptruder]

So cute and tasty.

Ah the delights of eatting small furry animals.

 

[Ripclawe]

its actually looks kinida tasty

except for the head looking at me, it does look good.

 

[Cauliflower of Love]

Apparently they are god damn delicious. I've never had then, but my parents have. Finger licking delicious apparently. I'm peruvian, as are my parents. Very tasty they are supposed to be.

 

[impirius]

I'd like one supersized with a Dr. Pepper

I think I'd like a Pepsi

 

[Lucky Forward]

There's a cathedral in Peru with a Last Supper mural showing Jesus and his disciples dining on Guinea Pig:

 

[jett]

The guinea pig is actually called "cuy" in Peru. Nobody here thinks of them as pets. I don't think I've ever eaten one, though.

 

[MrPing1000]

bah once you've owned them as pets and they begin to associate noises with food (fridge open and close, your voice) you can't eat them. And they are vocal about food as well. Like a small fury fat ass baby

 

[MrAngryFace]

NO!!!! *hides guinea pig*

 

[Lemurnator]

This and the dead mole thread on old GA are the threads in the history of GAF that weren't started by me to make me truely laugh and be sad at the same time.

 

[MrAngryFace]

I dont see how people can eat them.