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Why the world has so many Guineas
- jerrre 9y agoI like the question, hadn't thought about it before and now I want to know. The article doesn't give me much answers though. Mostly seems to clarify the question.
- governate 9y agoThis is one of those words you just avoid using, as an American, because it’s an insult to persons of Italian descent in the United States. That may be due to an association with some of the trivia related in this article?
- kwhitefoot 9y agoSo how do you go about buying a guinea pig?
- oblio 9y ago> Could I have that cute 2 months old Cavia porcellus, please?
- Freak_NL 9y agoOr just ask for 'that cavy'. The article mentions 'guinea men' to refer to the trading ships that shuttled between Britain, South America and 'Guinea', but I can't help but imagine a hypothetical breed of six feet tall, dapperly clothed, bipedal guinea pig.
- finin 9y agoLike the one that Beatrix Potter imagined?https://imgur.com/a/tjktk https://imgur.com/a/tjktk
- mrweasel 9y agoDenmark solved that problem by calling them "Marsvin" - Sea pigs. We then choose to also use that exact same name for harbour porpoise (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbour_porpoise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbour_porpoise)
- krallja 9y agoAsk for a cavy.
- ethagknight 9y agoAre you thinking of “guido”?
- jghn 9y agoNo, that's a separate slur for Italians. "Guinea" is also a slur for Italians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_slurs_by_ethnicity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_slurs_by_ethnic...
- eighthnate 9y agoGuinea is also an offensive derogatory term for italians in the US.
- a3n 9y agoI don't get why this was downvoted. Maybe not enough old people here to remember when this was an actively used slur? https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=guinea&defid=3821515 https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=guinea&defid...
- mikestew 9y agoI’m old enough to tell you what I was doing when Kennedy was assassinated, grew up in the former world headquarters of the KKK (Indiana), and this is news to me. I vaguely recall that the term could be derogatory, but forgot who was supposed to be insulted.
- jondubois 9y agoI would highly recommend Guineafowl. It's one of the very few birds I tried that tastes better than chicken.
- mercer 9y agobetter than duck?
- simonh 9y agoThey’re quite different, like comparing pork and beef. Guinnea Fowl is a white meat like Chicken but is more flavourful and gamey, a bit more like bronze turkey. You get a little more meat than on a duck but it’s not as fatty so can be a little dry depending how you cook it.
- KozmoNau7 9y agoTrick question, nothing is better than duck.
- ajmurmann 9y agoGoose can be! Especially Hungarian goose. It is a tough call though. There is also squab, but that is so different in flavor and preparation that it's really a bad comparison.
- jondubois 9y agoI find Guineafowl better. Some people describe it as gamey but maybe it depends where you get it from (wild vs farmed) and which part of the animal you consume (legs and wings are usually gamey-er). Both times I tried Gineafowl breast (in two different countries), it tasted like chicken but more fine, moist and buttery with a unique flavour. Sometimes chicken breast has a dry, almost grainy consistency; Gineafowl was more oily. It did have its own slight unique flavor but I wouldn't describe it as 'gamey'; I think that even Duck is more gamey than Gineafowl. On the gamey-ness scale of all the ornithological specimens I tried I would say: Chicken < Gineafowl < Turkey < Duck < Quail < Pigeon < Partridge < Pheasant If you're used to eating turkey a lot, I suspect that you might find Gineafowl to be more gamey than turkey but I think it's close.
- grecy 9y agoI spent a month exploring the country Guinea last year and absolutely loved it. Extremely friendly people, amazing landscapes and by far the best hiking in West Africa. Tons of waterfalls that make your jaw drop, tons of culture and extremely cheap. I loved that country! Since Ebola virtually no tourists go there, and Lonely Planet does not even cover it due to "a general lack of interest" ! HA. They could not be more wrong. Stories and photos: http://theroadchoseme.com/category/guinea http://theroadchoseme.com/category/guinea
- jpatokal 9y agoLonely Planet does cover Guinea? https://www.lonelyplanet.com/guinea https://www.lonelyplanet.com/guinea That said, they used to pride themselves on covering the entire world, including countries that weren't really commercially viable, but with the decimation of printed guidebook sales they've been pulling back for quite some time. IIRC the first place to get the axe was Micronesia, which gets next to no tourists, completely lacks the beaches that are the main driver of Pacific island tourism, and is frightfully expensive to get to and travel in. (Source: I used to work there, but it's been a few years.)
- ThinkingGuy 9y agoThese days, if I want a quick overview of an unfamiliar country, from a traveler's perspective, I tend to go to Wikivoyage: https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Guinea https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Guinea
- xchip 9y agoTL;DR The article doesn't really answer the question, it just mentions how many different Guineas exist.
- simplicitea 9y agoIt does; it stems from Portugal meaning black people according to the article. If I understood it correctly, it's some mashup of colony and black people. It's an artifact of early modern colonialism and zenophobia.
- caio1982 9y agoI can't access the article but it sounds bullshit to me; although the portuguese didn't mind at all being super racist towards their colonies. Guinea comes from portuguese Guiné, which has (so far) an unknown origin but historically described a long portion of sub-saharan costal land in Africa. In the region there used to be local powers called that because it would mean "warrior chiefs" or something in a local language. It's not exactly known if they were from Mali (whose city of Djenné traded with portuguese folks) or from Gana (another name related to the story and with uncertain origin).
- dogruck 9y agoWikipedia has a good explanation of the etymology: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea_(region)#Etymology https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea_(region)#Etymology Summary: It comes from an old Portuguese word for a subset of dark skinned North African people.
- firefoxd 9y agoI'm from Guinea... The one in west Africa...hmmm right there are two of them there. So Guinea Conakry it is. I don't know the Western origin of the word Guinea but I remember someone jokingly telling a story when we were kids. He used to say when the french colonists docked at the coast, they saw nobody. They went deep into the land and found a river. On that river, they saw women washing their clothes. "What do you call this land?" The french asked. The word land sounded like their word for "men". "Only women here..." (word for women in Soso is Guinée) "distracting you while the men steal your boats" So there you go, Guinée/Guinea means Women.