What kind of wine goes with guinea pig I wonder?

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-pigs20.html

Cuddly pet or culinary delight?

LIMA, Peru -- After 34 years of patient tinkering, researchers at Peru's most prestigious agrarian university have bred a new culinary export they hope will scamper onto dinner plates throughout America and the world: the super guinea pig.

The animal is a cuddly companion for millions of children in the United States. But in Peru, the rodent's birthplace, it remains a vital source of protein in rural communities, a mainstay of Andean folk medicine and a common religious sacrifice to the gods.

''It is well known that Peruvians eat guinea pig. Foreigners are more reluctant to eat it as they see the animal as a pet,'' said Gloria Palacios, director of La Molina National University's project to promote guinea pig exports.

''I think if they become familiar with the cuisine, maybe suddenly they'll give in and be tempted to try it,'' she said. ''It is really delicious.''

Meatier breed in works

Peruvians consume an estimated 65 million guinea pigs each year. It is a dining experience that normally requires two hands to pick scant, sinewy meat from a bony carcass -- often with the head staring up from the plate.

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[Worst Username Ever]

1. I will take a shot at that question

I believe a guinnea pig would be a white meat, kind of like a rabit. Therefor it would be a white, but it depends on how the guinnea pig is cooked. Lots of garlic? I would say a pinot girgio? Eating it plain or with butter? I'd say stick with your standard chardonay.

[kick-ass-bob]

10. that is exactly what I was going to say.

Guinea pig is definitely white meat.

[BigMcLargehuge]

11. I'd think it would have the taste and texture of rabbit

so I'd cook it in red wine the same way I cook rabbit. Since I ignore the white/red fish/beef rule of wine at dinner, I'd eat guinnea pig with a nice glass of plain old Portuguese Vinho Tinto.

[kick-ass-bob]

12. aw screw it! just get some of this:

Nothing is better than "flavored citrus wine"
:crazy:

[dancing kali]

13. A friend who has been backpacking

through South America told me that you can buy them from street vendors in Equador and Peru, roasted on a stick, with heads and feet still attached. He said they taste like... you got it... chicken. Which I suppose means that they are pretty close to rabbit. I agree that a nice light chardonnay would go very nicely with barbequed rodent.

[jdots]

2. a fine night train or thunderbird

served with a festive garnish of dry wall screws.

[Spinzonner]

3. And do you serve it with a cherry in its mouth ?

[ET Awful]

4. Sorry, it has nothing to do with being a pet, but I just couldn't eat

a critter with a face like this:



I have no problems with eating cows, chickens, fish . . . none of them are cute and cuddly :).

[NNN0LHI]

5. Even if you were real hungry?

:think:

[ET Awful]

6. If I was really hungry, I'd eat vegetables.

If there's a guinea pig around and he's alive, that means there's edible vegetation nearby as well.

[flvegan]

16. It's a good thing that

Folks don't suffer and die (or live) based on another person's opinion of "cute and cuddly" in the norm.

And yeah, I'd be sooo dead.

[auburngrad82]

7. I've always been partial to Boone's Farm Apple

Of course you could stick with anything that goes with chicken...

[Dogmudgeon]

8. Let's go hunting Guinea Pig!

You bring the beer, I'll bring the assault rifle!

Let's also invite The Nuge -- he likes to hunt them in the nude, in camo-paint; and after he rassles them to the forest floor, he dispatches them with a sharpened popsicle stick. Dude!

--bkl

[Magrittes Pipe]

9. Guinea pig is very similar to rabbit.

So I'd suggest a full-bodied white (like a chardonnay) or a lighter red (like a pinot noir). Depends how it's sauced, really. The standard parillada-style preparation would call for the pinot, in my estimation.

[underpants]

14. Probably a Guiness-it is made of and named after Guinea pigs too

It's true you can look it up.

[jdots]

15. a 94 chateu de Heston

served in a depleated uranium shell at doom tempature