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Donโ€™t look up what Guinea pigs were originally bred for.

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Sex?

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Nein, essen.

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GroรŸ- und Kleinschreibung รผben wir aber nochmal wa

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What do you mean โ€œoriginallyโ€?

What did I buy at that roadside bbq stand then?

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Rat, most likely.

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Very unlikely in Ecuador.

Fun fact, if you go in pretty much any farm in Ecuador, the ground level (lived in) will have lots of guinea pigs scuttling around (a bit like a lot of farms will have rabbits around, except theyโ€™re guinea pigs, and theyโ€™re in the house). Although they arenโ€™t typically an everyday meal, theyโ€™re kept for special occasions, like a wedding or something like that.

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Why is the fact that they were/are food so bad? People eat rabbit too.

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Giant rabbits seem like an economic alternative to larger animals.

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A German once sent a dozen giant rabbits to North Korea in order to kick start a giant rabbit breeding program there. The intent was to help them overcome a famine, but instead the rabbits were all eaten at Kim il Sungโ€™s birthday party.

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Look up โ€œrabbit starvationโ€ some time. Rabbitโ€™s fine but you have to be sure your diet is diverse enough.

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I once had a very vivid dream that i lived in a society that valued animal life, but still ate meat, and figured that the best compromise was to breed bigger cows, so that fewer number of animals needed to be killed for more meat. So a genetically engineered ultracow was bred that was the size of a battleship, and it took a whole city to care for and feed it. But something went wrong and the ultracow got out of its pen and just roamed around breaking stuff and nobody could catch it again.

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Thereโ€™s a few animals I was surprised to find out some find weird to eat: rabbit, horse, reindeer. I was especially surprised by rabbit. Itโ€™s such a commonly hunted animal too.

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There was some speculation that humans are good at throwing rocks specifically for hunting rabbits before tool development. The sling made it even easier.

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In australia we eat our kangaroos and emus too. Also camels, sometimes.

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Who eats a horse?

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Piggie Nuggies

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More like ocean piglet - the small kinda pig looking creature, that was shipped to europe via the ocean

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Why did I read this in Scottish accent?

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It is consistent with polish too. โ€œลšwinka morskaโ€ literally means โ€œSea piggyโ€

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Russian too.

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slovene aswell

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Hungarian too

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Tengerimalac

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Serbian too (morsko prase)

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