The big excitement on Friday was going with Juan, his wife, his mother, his stepdad, Mike, and Zach to a Peruvian restaurant in Phoenix. We ate roast chicken, potato appetizers, shrimp soup, and various other things.
No guinea pig though. All the USA and Mexico meat wholesalers that Juan’s talked to don’t carry cui. It’s just not popular outside Peru for some reason. Heck, spending 5 minutes with Google and a bunch of appropriate search terms didn’t cough up one place where you could buy guinea pig meat. There’s a market niche that isn’t being served—probably because it’s so tiny.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackI’m glad you had a good time, but even thinking about eating guinea pigs is disgusting.
The dinner must have been terrific. Bon apetit! I had the chance to try guinea pigs (cuy in Peru) made with a peanut sauce, and I must say that is one of the most delicious dishes ever! Bye :-)
The dinner was pretty good, sure. Maybe one of these days I’ll get to try cui, with or without peanut sauce. The closest I came is once, in Milwaukee, I ate a German dish called “Schnitzel ala Innsbruck”, which was a veal patty wrapped around slices of ham and cheese, then baked. The dish resembled a guinea pig that had been skinned and baked. It was tasty, but it certainly wasn’t cui.
If anyone ate my guinea-pigling I’d kill them.
Why can’t you just stick to chicken?
Guinea-pigs are sweet-natured, affectionate animals and the idea of eating one makes me sad :’(