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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: thundley4 on April 12, 2009, 11:12:18 AM
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"Venezuela's giant rodent cuisine
While in many countries the Easter dish may be lamb, in Venezuela a traditional delicacy around this time of the year is the capybara, the world's biggest rodent.
The capybara is a distant cousin to the common guinea pig but bigger and river-based like a beaver.
Many Venezuelans regard the semi-aquatic creature as more fish than meat - a useful description during Lent when it is eaten as a replacement for red meat in this largely Roman Catholic country." BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7987587.stm)
(http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45644000/jpg/_45644815_chiguire_226.jpg)
The official hunting season is in the weeks before Easter
Sounds delicious, but I think I'll stick with ham.
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We're having deli capybara sandwiches with platypus chips and iced kangaroo milk.
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Personally, I'll stick with my original menu of spotted owl and an appetizer of Komodo Dragon.