There I was, peacably looking for pics of Andean roast guinea pig (cuy)

[mssaskia]

And I came across a site that made my jaw drop.  It is not for the squeamish or tenderhearted.  I didn't think I was either til I saw the section on the preparation and cooking of feline, which made me glad I hadn't eaten anything yet.  This is the second time in a week that I've found boundaries I didn't know I had, and I'm not saying anything

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[amberkatt]

I didn't even know guinea pigs were considered a food animal until several years ago when I was watching a Farm Report segment about Heifer Project International. One of the recipient families they profiled was a woman who was given a breeding pair of guinea pigs. They showed her going out to the "guinea pig coop" to feed them, and she was mobbed by a whistling, squealing mob of hungry little cavies.

I also just found out this week that my boss used to breed and raise show cavies (that's how I discovered that "cavy" was another word for guinea pig). She raised Peruvians, which are basically mops without the handles or else squat, flat little Cousin Its, and my other boss, her son, regaled me with stories of how she would wrap the pigs' hair up in curlers. She countered that it wasn't curlers she used, it was merely paper wraps and bobby pins, to keep the hair out of the way so the pig wouldn't chew on it and eat it off

About that mob....

[amberkatt]

They were profiling that Andean woman as a success story long after the original gift of the breeding pair was given to her -- they'd obviously been very fruitful and multiplied in the intervening interval.

But that means

[mssaskia]

people were eating the products of incest! I wonder if that made them more tasty or less.