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Anytime I meet a Guyanese the first thing they ask is whether I eat Manicou and Iguana,yes I answer and it brings out laughter.They even go further,"we nah eat dah kyna shit in Guyana".I take it for granted but many friends I know in Florida say that Guyanese is eating dong all the Iguanas in Florida.Tell meh ah lie.

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In reply to granite

I don't know about Guyanese in Florida but plenty Guyanese in Guyana eat Iguana.. its common almost all over you go people selling Iguana..

Manicou on the other hand.. yet to come across a Guyanese who eat that

In reply to granite

Not sure about Iguznas, but ducks, plentiful and found on almost all the man made water-ways and cultivated to feed on mosquitoes, were caught and promptly curried by Guyanese and Trinis alike

I was also told of the cascadura fish- they call it "hasa." I was told it was attempted farmed and some escaped which posed a threat to native species.

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In reply to Dukes

I don't eat guana every Saturday, but I ate quite a few, growing up in the Kuntry. And, I did not purchase them.

In reply to black

How does the lizard taste?

Stew or curry?

In reply to XFactor

Curry.

It is one of the best tasting meat that I have had.

In reply to black

Is this the same kind of iguana that are sold as pets or end up in Chinese restaurants?

In reply to black

Ever had labba?

Gotta be the best meat I ever had

In school and at home they everywhere ! Wifey always want to keep one to cook but I don't encourage that...don't eat them either,my wild meat is Agouti,lappe,hog and dear..and that's it..

Lappe and agouti curry-stew is amazing..

In reply to anthonyp

Labba good too.

In reply to Dukes
Thanks fuh the info on dem 2 bannas Larr and Black,so dem of the lower class?

In reply to bravos
That boy should have plenty gal running after him soon.BTW I ate all those wild meat you have put in your post,my father loved hunting and regularly went to Moruga forests,I had deer,lappe,wild pig,manicou,iguana,agouti.You didn't mention birds,I also had mountain dove and other birds.The big problem was,my mother would not cook iguana,my father had to go to the neighbour,I always remember her name Hilda,she would cook it.

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In reply to Emir

Were they Indo Iguanas?

In reply to Dan_De_Lyan
Dem Iguanas born and bred in Trinidad.

In reply to anthonyp

In reply to Dukes

Anyone of ayuh bannas ever eat bush-motobike, skunt?

In reply to DukeStreet

I see a padnuh tek off he boots lace and chase one a dem bush-motobike (salipenter/salamander). He later told me that the skin got that nice gummy taste that gillbacker skin got.
Never tried it.

In reply to DukeStreet

Salipentah? Nah
Careful with armadillo word is that they give leprosy
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In reply to DukeStreet

What is Bush motorbike? Anteater?

In reply to black

You pun country and mek townmen know what is bush motorbike bro?

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We don't call it that in Mahaica. Plus I left that place lang time.

In reply to black

I can remember stuff pun 5 yrs or therabouts, left laang is no excuse. I can name kindergarten to HS teachers.
Dat is what um known as in your neck of the woods and they are plentiful down deh
Armadillo they call aysee in GY n Trinis call Lap?

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In reply to black

same was trying to spell as per pronunciation
You know Ray Ramessar from Mahaica he is my hs idren

In reply to Runs

No.

In reply to Runs

Yuh know dem Williams from Cane Grove? Father was ah headmaster.

In reply to Runs

Nah this is lappe..

We call armadillos 'tatoo'..Tatoo eat reaaal good too,forget that yes..kinda layered meat..

In reply to black

Nah I don’t really know much peeps used to go up there to spend August hols with grandparents, not CG but Scheme. My parents will, my mom taught there in her younger years before I.
Had lots of rice and farmlands which I enjoyed.

In reply to bravos

That look like ah labba.

In reply to bravos

Ok we call Lap, Labba
Bravos come on the bird thread, you guys rear towa towa in Tdad?

In reply to Runs

My father used to plant cassava in Scheme back dam.

Do you remember they had that clear water trench back there? You could see the fishes clear as daylight.

In reply to black

I caught many a fish in those trenches,still know the spots used to fish that trench all the way to “water path middlewalk” across were savannas. Is your father “Fishy”?

In reply to Runs

No, but I know Fishy.

In reply to black

Ok, I was a force riped youth hung with the big boys and went on tractor rides throughout that area, from Mahaicony to Unity by Shiv them to CG
Older fellas still remember precocious me, I have a bit of a rep

I organize fishing expeditions up the Mahaica and 20/20 games with the youths when I visit. Have not been back in a few years, due a trip

In reply to Runs

Hassa/Cascadoo,Chicken curry/Curry chicken ting..same ting just like some ah we,different names,same skunts...lol..

In reply to bravos

Lesser seed finch

In reply to black

You had rel boy days nice..

Not like some ah de sheltered copying and pasting skunts does be around here..giving we wrong 'friend of Jack and Yellow and fellows' roasted marshmallow copy and paste advice

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In reply to bravos

I grew up in the Kuntry, Kuntry living is real living.

In reply to Runs

Sorry, I don't remember those names but I can't believe you know Fishy but not my Dad. My Dad was probably the most popular person in Mahaica.

Fishy lived on the other side of my street, the same side as Norm' s grandfather.

In reply to black

Ok
I am not from there but may have heard about him
Lots of inter-marriages between Mahaica and CG peeps.

In reply to Runs

I sent you a pm with that info a few months back.

Fishy's wife and my Dad are first cousins

In reply to black

Ok, nah don’t know him but family will

In reply to Runs

In reply to black

Yes, the Lamaha Canal has its source in CG
lots of peacock bass, caimans and snakes

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In reply to black

It does, provide their water supply needs
They call it the Blacka in GT