Here Come the Guinea Pig Articles

Well, what can we say…

We are playing a nation of Tabloid readers…

We are playing a has-been imperial power…

We are playing a nation that sucks at sports it invented…

But most importantly, we are playing a nation we beat in the Davis Cup 2000, where else, but in WIMBLEDON. They didn’t know where Ecuador was back then, they’ll surely remember this time.

Posted from  United States

U ENGLISH ARE PRICKS!!!! HOW DARE YOU MAKE FUN OF ECUADORIANS AND WHAT THEY EAT!? WHO CARES!! ALL U PEOPLE HAVE ROTTEN TEETH! WHAT DO U EAT TO GET THAT!?!?!? KEEP THINKING ECUADOR IS GONNA BE EASY! WE’RE GONNA MAKE YOU PAY!!!!! SI SE PUEDE!!!!!!

Posted from  Canada

The Cheeky Bloke Who Wrote About Eatin Pets, Needs To Get A Life And Focus On The Main Fact That England Gonna Get Spanked On Sunday So It Shall Be Written So It Shall B Done Forget God Save The Queen, God Save England.

oo well only sum ecuadorians eat guienea pigs.

oo well only sum ecuadorians eat guienea pigs.

I just sent an e-mail to the writer. What an uneducated fool.
He made himself, the paper and the English look bad with such a statement.

Posted from  United States

By the way. A very small percentage of the population eat an animal very similar to Guinea pigs. These animals are not pets, they are wild animals that native indians hunt as a source of food.

This animals are eating in the high sierras where food was scarce hundreds of years ago. The tradition stuck around, but not many people eat it. I have never tried it and never will, but vendors do sell them in certain areas are most people who eat them for the first time do it as a dare or to be adventerous, but it is not a staple of the country’s diet.

Posted from  United States

Orlando, Jose and others: Yeah, I didn’t mean to imply they were making things up, but the gist of the article is to exaggerate Ecuador as the Other. You know, a backward place where they eat pets!

And I do know that people there eat them. I’ve seen ‘em roasting on spits on the drive from Quito to Otavalo. I haven’t tried ‘em, but I certainly don’t begrudge those who do.

Look, they can make jokes about guinea pigs, but I get to point out the echoes of paternalism, too. It’s a fair deal.

Posted from  United States

frz if ecuador is so good what are you doing in the usa? as for kenny what an arsehole. sat in some godforsaken backwater with no friends and just a computer.dick head.

Posted from  United Kingdom

Lol they consider their readers needing a map in order to learn just where ECUADOR is! Wonder if they are right.

Posted from  Spain

you know i wouldnt pay to much attention to this article, the sun is a trash paper, pay no mind to it. as for the pet, when i was down their i had some and believe me i know ppl that have eaten them say it taste like chicken. i be glad to see ecuador win 2-0 aganist england. Mind you alot of their fans have been on me since tuesday

Posted from  Canada

Guinea Pigs are delicious, THANK YOU.

Posted from  United States

As an American, I was hoping to see England lose in a July 4th match. I could take Ecuador over England as a close second.

Posted from  United States

Urallchusma is right Guinea Pigs are delicious. Jose Miguel is montubio acomplejado. Cuy is a domesticated farm animal, its not hunted. Its a delicacy, not a left-over tradition from a time when people where starving.

Alan, if you should know, I divide my time between Quito and New York because I own a successful outsourcing IT company. When I open my offices in England and need to hire a drunk hooligan to clean my floors I’ll make sure to give you a call.

Posted from  United States

GUINEA PIGS WHERE HISTORICLY EATEN BY ANCIENT AMERICAN NATIONS, INDEED THE GUINEA PIG PROTEIN WAS THE REAL INCA FOOD AS WELL AS CROPS QUINUA AND AMARANTO, so the only not so smart people are the one that keep and raise this resource as “pets” and in the other hand there stills people dying every day hungry in America, there are not freedom from hungrier

Att

Ecuadorian indian

Posted from  United States

Well said Indio Guaranda.

FRZ, nice response to Allan, who’s the montubio acomplejado now?
Perhaps you are correct about the fact that they are farmed now, but I was talking about the past, like Indio Guaranda confirmed.

Posted from  United States

Trent,
this topic is completely absurd. What is the point of talking about this in a football website?
Unless you are trying to infer that our food is somehow primitive and disgusting. I strongly recommend you to close this article as it provides no benefit related to the aim of this blog site . Hugs from Quito. Rodrigo

Posted from  Ecuador

Lets tack 1 up to cultural differences and go from there. In Ecuador by no means is it mainstream on the other hand its not looked down upon either. I can only hope that people are open minded and respect other cultures practices. Plus, they do taste like chicken!

E4L

Posted from  United States

you a success frz i find that hard to belive. perhaps when pigs fly (even guinea pigs)

Posted from  United Kingdom

hark at frz he calls the tabloid newspaper for its stereotypical view of ecuador then spouts one about drunk hooligans. hypocrite.i fail to see how anyone with such a narrow mind/view can be a success at anything other than bigotry.lets just hope for a game worthy of the world cup from two good teams good luck ecuador, just not too much.

Posted from  United Kingdom

Rodas - I posted this topic for just the opposite reason than you guess. The original English article was condescending to Ecuador, and I think that the cultural expectations that the various nations bring to the World Cup is a valid topic for the tournament. A background topic, but there nonetheless.

My feelings of derision are not toward anyone’s eating habits, but rather toward articles like these. That’s what can be, in your words, “primitive and disgusting”.

Sorry for any confusion.

slightly differnt subject, royal ascot 3.25 gmt a horse called quito at 20/1? worth a pop each way

Posted from  United Kingdom

idont kno how them pigs taste like
but i can assure u
if we win or lose
we still showed our flag in the worldcup….
u must b bored talkin bullshit bout ecuador over the computer
if u really have balls buy a ticket and talk shit over here
i can assure u
i would whip ur ass and drag u down the city
and send u back to ur family
in a casket…..

Posted from  United States

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Posted from  Republic Of Moldova