• Mkengine@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

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

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        1 year 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.