a special south american treat

[drusophila melanogaster]

http://forums.egullet.com/index.php?showtopic=9462

[Michelle]

got a recepie to go with that?

[drusophila melanogaster]

it's called cuy
i looked
but all links were dead

[Chauncey]

they eat hamsters? they must be realy hungry.

[Michelle]

those arent hamsters. more like guinea-piggies.

[Chauncey]

but still...

[Michelle]

yeah

[drusophila melanogaster]

they're guinea pigs
it's a staple in peru and ecuador

[Michelle]

i've never understood why people would wanna eat frog legs, either.

[Chauncey]

i'm not saying they aren't tasty who knows but it just kinda seems like a last resort food that became a delicacy over time. thats just my feeling. frog legs always kinda seemed like that to me too. i just picture some french neanderthal man who just couldn't seem to catch that bull going for the frog as an easy kill cause he was starving and then thinking"hmmmm not bad, and not to hard to catch" fast forward to now and its gormet.

[emansofly]

Thats wack, yo!

[Lickerr]

eating guinea pigs... i can understand that, it's a cultural thing

still..

i would remove those claws when presenting it

[drusophila melanogaster]

guinea pigs is not a last resort
you can raise a ton of them on scraps and get plenty of meat
same with frogs
they might not have a lot of meat
but you can eat a ton of them and they don't go extinct

insects work great too

[Chauncey]

well don't you think that people discovered these things when their usual food was scarce?

[Michelle]

for sure!

why else would you wanna go and eat something thats green, jumps and goes...

"wibbit"
?

[Hitman]

Poor little guys.....

[emansofly]

Thats wack, yo!

[General Tso s Chicken]

at least the little guy looks happy .