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They're akin to chickens down in South America. We'd see them in people's kitchens just running around. I couldn't eat one though because I have issues eating something with a face....and they the face on, paws too.
They would bbq them on a charcoal brazier, on a stick and all in one piece. I would usually opt for corn at this point. It was good corn.
I had a guinea pig that looked like Specklet's rabbit impersonator when I was a kid. I also had six or so short-hairs like the ones just above. And they were for playing with, NOT for eating!
Guinea pigs are exceptionally dumb animals, for the record.
You'll probably have to ask jrossi4r. I think her hubs is Eyetalian.
Rossi is HER name! HER one that she has always had and struggles to impart this to people all the time!!! Of course, this does not preclude her husband being Italian.
My husband is Italian, and cooks. I might ask him. Probably not.
My sister had one, called Guinea, who was the noisiest little pig on earth. Neighbours would think their car alarm had gone off, when it was Guinea giving it the "wheep wheep wheep"