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Cone or scoop: Guinea pig ice HEALTH

cream for sale in Ecuador DOCTOR ON DUTY

FOR SALE BY OWNER Oranjestad
By GONZALO SOLANO Marriott Aruba Surf Club Hospital 7:00 pm / 10:00pm
Associated Press Gold Season Tel. 527 4000
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — It’s 2b oceanview villa w/kitchen San Nicolas
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squishy, squeaking bundles
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serve them with potatoes this Sept. 27, 2019 photo, María del Carmen Pilapana chooses a Women in Difficulties
and peanut sauce. But guinea pig at a farm in San Jose de Taboada, Ecuador. EMERGENCY
one vendor is taking things Associated Press
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as a cold dessert. after six months of test- guinea pigs included _ into Sta. Cruz 527 2900
Some people like ice ing, she starting selling her ice cream is unusual. San Nicolas 584 5000
cream made from “cuy,” range of ice creams at the Carolina Páez, director of Police Tipline 11141
as the animal is locally beginning of September. the anthropology school Ambulancia 911
known. “I was suspicious, Pilapaña manages to of the Catholic University in Fire Dept. 115
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but it was tasty,” said Mar- concentrate guinea pig Quito, isn’t surprised.
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at a stall next to a high- animal’s flesh, adds milk or Andean indigenous soci- Prof. Taxi 588 0035
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capital of Quito to the city concoction until it has the protein content,” she said. Taxi Serv. Aruba 583 3232
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Carmen Pilapaña, whose to chicken. “so there is no reason to be TRAVEL INFO
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belief and laughter among ice creams include fruits eat guinea pigs, even in American Airlines 582 2700
first-time customers. such as pineapple and ice cream.” Avianca 588 0059
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small. It consists of two ta- cream has a slight aroma ice cream is just the begin- Surinam 582 7896
bles in an open area lined of wet earth. ning. She has new flavors in
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demand is growing. Every desserts, often chocolate- ness is picking up, I’m sure
week, the entrepreneur infused ones, in parts of I’ll do well,” she said.q
prepares 150 servings ($1
for a cone) of guinea pig
ice cream.
She also makes 40 servings October 09
of ice cream flavored with Monarch
beetles, also traditionally Freedom of the Seas
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