I ate one back when I was a boy, cubed the back legs up and fried it till it was dry.... the process would have destroyed any meat, so no surprises that it was a bit chewy.
The big thing with them is the carcases smell, and I could never get past that. Nowadays I guess I could cook one and make it taste pretty good, but I don't have any enthusiasm to do so.
Funnily enough, when I was trapping them as a schoolboy 40 years ago I averaged $11 per skin - we pluck the fur now and they are still worth about $10 per possum. Of course, $10 currently isn't worth what it was 40 years ago.
