In Peru, they eat Guinea Pigs

You can get Guinea Pigs served to you roasted, baked or fried in most tourist restaurants. It´s called Cuy.

I didn´t have one, because Hammy Hamster´s best friend G.P. was, well, a Guinea Pig (as well as a Great Pilot).

By the way, it turns out that Tales of the River Bank or Hammy Hamster was a Canadian show. You can get blank stares or maybe disbelieving ones when you try and describe the real live guiney pig flying a plane or mole steering a boat etc. etc.