Reply #119: It IS known by people who feel the need to know about the countries [View All]

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outside the US. I've known for a hella long time that people eat guinea pigs, and I'm in the US. Always have been. But then, I've long been interested in not being an insular US-centric person, and want to know about the wide variety of ways that people around the world celebrate around the table, as well as other cultural and social things.

Are they generally eaten in the US? No. I've never eaten one. But I've long known that they are food in other places.

In fact, I've long known that there isn't any animal larger than a mouse I can think of that doesn't get eaten for food somewhere by someone, except maybe cat, but I'm sure someone is eating it. A friend of mine has had rat numerous times in Thailand. Others eat lizards. I've had alligator. Dogs are food in quite a number of places.

Try to break out of your restrictive cultural learning, stop making it normative for all people, and embrace the world's cuisines and cultures and traditions.