• Mkengine@feddit.de
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    9 months ago

    I think in this time Guinea was a name for a far away place and not necessarily the origin.

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      9 months ago

      Not Guinea, but I saw guinea pigs raised for food in a village in Tanzania. The local who owned them found it hilarious that we keep them as pets in the U.S. He asked me what we call them, and after i replied guinea pig, he said they definitely don’t taste like pig.