GUINEA PIG ICE CREAM

You might not be aware that, in South America, people eat guinea pigs. In Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador people typically cook guinea pigs with salt and serve them with potatoes and peanut sauce (* Peanut sauce? With guinea pig? Ewwww!). Now, one lady in Quito, Ecuador, has taken things a step further – she’s selling guinea pig-flavored ice cream. The ice cream stall owner is María del Carmen Pilapaña, who sells 40 flavors of ice cream, including novelties like ice cream flavored with beetles or mushrooms. And now, guinea pigs. The taste, say people who have had it, is similar to – wait for it – chicken.
* But the only way to burn off the calories is to run on an exercise wheel.
* “Hey – these aren’t chocolate sprinkles on my cone!”
* And don’t ask how she makes the gerbil smoothies.
* Who did she use as guinea pigs to test out the guinea pig-flavored ice cream?
* Finally another country giving rotten British food some real competition.
* At least Anthony Bourdain didn’t live to see this.