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The first noticeable damage on livestock carcasses and roadkill is typically the rear end is opened up. Possums are the culprits; they do this to get to the inside of the carcass and eat the organs. Sayin that, Possum Puddin may be considered good table fare by some, I will pass.

When I was a teenager, I was at my grandmothers and ate the best roast beef I had ever put in my mouth. When I asked where she had bought it, I was informed that I had ate possum. I didn't eat any more, but it was the most tender and delicate beef I have ever tasted. Grany boiled it first and then roasted it with potatoes, carrots and onions.

No thanks

I’ve seen possums crawl outta deer carcasses….

🤢🤢🤢

Ground hog is where it’s at🤤🤤

So did mine according to my mama; I never ate it since that was long before my time. Mama said it was good but greasy even with boiling. My grandmother also ate chitlings; when she opened the pressure cooker, the stink chased everybody out of the house.

Sure, but we eat catfish and pigs which are just as nasty. I haven't eaten possum since, but I would if I was hungry.

The pelvic girdle on a deer is probably too small for a possum to get to the guts.

Any animal starts there because that's the easiest place to get in and start on the eating. Look where a coyote starts eating as soon as they get an animal down, dead or not.

Ever smelled a quail?

It was reported to be possum spaghetti provided for us on a bikeride.

Tasted fine but everyone was hungry.

I am convinced.

My father was born in 1917 and raised in rural west central Alabama during the depression. He often described his childhood life as being poor, but they really didn't much realize it at the time as everyone was poor. Subsistence hunting and fishing to supplement their gardening was just a way of life. I remember asking him if they ever ate 'possum. He said that he never did, but knew of some people that did. He said he was out hunting once and came upon a dead cow in the woods that had started to decay. He noticed some wiggling coming from the inside of the cow. Being curious, he gave it a good kick and said two possums crawled out of the putrid mess. He said from then on he never once got hungry enough to ever eat a possum.

Never ate one nor had the notion to. If I was hungry enough I would eat one. I just haven't been hungry enough.

The thing about ham, is it comes from right beside a pigs a$$.

Ain't eating no possum. I'm a better hunter than that.

I worked with a guy that was in the outhouse at the deer lease and heard a noise beneath him. He shined his light between his legs down through the hole and there he saw a possum with literally a [bleep] eating grin.😂

lol. I’d of pulled my pistol and Glocked that SOB.

Can you imagine getting bitten in the ass by a possum.

Not to mention the ribbing’s you’d have to take from the whole camp. 😬

So, Jay Leno was funnin' us?
I hope Jed Clampet does not hear about this.

I knew a guy once that was going to stop on a dirt road, kick a possum, make it sull up and put it in a sack. He ran toward the possum to kick it and tripped and fell on it instead. An incredible amount of scrambling, scratching, hissing and cursing issued from both participants. The possum escaped.

As a young teen I worked a fur shed with my Dad's cousin skinning and fleshing. I think I got about 50 cent if it was a big coon, 10 cent a muskrat, 50 a mink, 10 a opossum etc. Those opossums were the nastiest of the bunch by far. Seen a live caught one back down the biggest german shepherd I've ever known, was my Grandmother's. It didn't want any of that hissing. Lol. Anyway, probably the last thing I'd eat but I'm spoiled these days.

I'd as lief eat a plate of barbed wire as to chow down on a greasy possum. You boys who like possum can have my share.

L.W.