Another (white?) meat

[boutons_deux]

From Pets To Plates: Why More People Are Eating Guinea Pigs



http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/201...cc=es-20130407

[Wild Cobra]

Meat is meat...

[FkLA]

Ive always been grossed out by rodents, would not eat tbh.

[Latarian Milton]

at least you don't see cat meat or the aborted human fetus served in any american restaurant tbh.

[johnsmith]

Ive always been grossed out by rodents, would not eat tbh.

.i agree...if it makes sense to throw them on the grill with the entire body still together, then I'm not interested?

[2pac > Kobe]

at least you don't see cat meat or the aborted human fetus served in any american restaurant tbh.

dey got dem aborted fetus's in pepsi google it homie

[admiralsnackbar]

Had to eat cuy at a business dinner in Guayaquil back in the mid 2000's as a gesture of solidarity with some prospective local partners.

It was ok (texture was not unlike goat meat -- greasier, maybe, and somewhat less stringy... tasted about like rabbit if rabbits had dark meat), but the funniest/most off-putting part was carving the meat off the roast: the cooks left the very humanoid paw/hands on -- complete with singed fur bracelets where the skinning process left off.

"Chévere!"

[FkLA]

Had to eat cuy at a business dinner in Guayaquil back in the mid 2000's as a gesture of solidarity with some prospective local partners.

It was ok (texture was not unlike goat meat -- greasier, maybe, and somewhat less stringy... tasted about like rabbit if rabbits had dark meat), but the funniest/most off-putting part was carving the meat off the roast: the cooks left the very humanoid paw/hands on -- complete with singed fur bracelets where the skinning process left off.

"Chévere!"

Birria is really good, if its anything like that it must be good...but cooking the whole body is really off putting. Chop that up tbh.

Not to mention the grilled rodents on that pic look more slender than guinea pigs, seems like it would be easy for a shady restaurant to serve you a rat instead.

[johnsmith]

Birria is really good, if its anything like that it must be good...but cooking the whole body is really off putting. Chop that up

That's the problem...it's like when you go to one of those Mexican places and they have the picture on the menu of that whole fish....that might taste great, but I'm never going to find out because it looks so foul.

[FkLA]

That's the problem...it's like when you go to one of those Mexican places and they have the picture on the menu of that whole fish....that might taste great, but I'm never going to find out because it looks so foul.

You mean like this? Ill tear that up tbh, if you ever got past the fish being whole youd be hooked brah. For some reason seeing a fish whole never grossed me out the way seeing a rodent whole would if I ever had a plate of it in front of me. Rodents are just disgusting tbh.

[admiralsnackbar]

Not to mention the grilled rodents on that pic look more slender than guinea pigs, seems like it would be easy for a shady restaurant to serve you a rat instead.

They don't really look that similar to rats up close, TBH. Rats have tails, for one thing (although maybe you've hit on why they serve the animal whole... probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference if it was all chopped up unless the flavor was a dead giveaway).