Donโt look up what Guinea pigs were originally bred for.
What do you mean โoriginallyโ?
What did I buy at that roadside bbq stand then?
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 theyโre guinea pigs, and theyโre in the house). Although they arenโt typically an everyday meal, theyโre kept for special occasions, like a wedding or something like that.
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 Sungโs birthday party.
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.
Thereโs a few animals I was surprised to find out some find weird to eat: rabbit, horse, reindeer. I was especially surprised by rabbit. Itโs such a commonly hunted animal too.
More like ocean piglet - the small kinda pig looking creature, that was shipped to europe via the ocean
Why did I read this in Scottish accent?
It is consistent with polish too. โลwinka morskaโ literally means โSea piggyโ