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Not saying I wouldn't but I haven't been that hungry yet.
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Greasy suckers. I’ve skinned many but never could talk myself into cooking one of those greasy and stinky creatures. We sold the hides and meat back in the 70’s and 80’s so someone liked them.
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No possum consumed here. Had beaver once at a wild game feed and it was good.
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I'd like to know some palatable recipes myself for when the day comes and if I'm still living that those garbage eating varmints will be considered table fare for the masses.
I've had coon on the barbecue grill before, but never worked up enough hunger to try a possum
Just finished up a squirrel stew, and had many a one, plus wabbits and other unlucky animals.
Just sincerely curious about cooking a possum to where it's tasty ( if it's possible- without sweet potatoes I should add)
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I ate it back when I was young but remember little about it. My Grandmother and most of Her family liked them. My Grandfather would catch them alive and put them in a chicken coop and feed them corn for a while before butchering. miles
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Yessir My folks ate whatever was slow enough back in the bad ol' days. I had enough sense to listen and learn how to make soap and pies and tea cake cookies and ribbon cane syrup and put a hot patch on a tire tube and kill and cook wabbits and squirrels and shine and assorted things like that. Possums as table fare never came up though. I do know they ate them regularly when my momma daddy was little since there wasn't a whole lot besides what they could raise or grow. There wasn't many wt deer to be had and the turkey were all gone and the bear were pretty much gone. By the time I came along and started to hunt there was still a bear season to the east the first year I hunted, and the county wt limit was 1 buck. Does were strictly forbidden and squirrels were shoot all you want. Fur boom was still a thing
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When I was growing up a lot of the local Blacks considered them to be a delicacy. My grandfather had hounds, and would coon and possum hunt. The possums would be taken live, put in a pen and fattened up, and then sold to one of the local Blacks. I've also heard of other people that ate them, but there is no way I'd eat a possum unless I was starving to death and it was either eat that or die.
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I have never had it. I have heard old people that grew up during the depression talk about eating them. They said they were good. I suspect they were hungry for fresh meat and didn't get meat often. I have trapped them and skinned them to sell the fur. They smell funny. Not appetizing at all.
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. . . I've also heard of other people that ate them, but there is no way I'd eat a possum unless I was starving to death and it was either eat that or die. Yessir That's the way things were back in the late 1920's and 30's when my folks grew up. Some something or a varmint molesting your little bit of livestock or fowl or your vegetable garden was that many bites of food that weren't available for the family. I wouldn't eat any myself unless I couldn't come up with something better. Way back when, my folks didn't have much to begin with, then after all the cotton was picked and ginned and there was a few dollars in hand, they splurged and had fried salmon patties from canned salmon along with the usual collards and stuff they'd put up and canned. I've had some former coworkers that were naturalized citizens from Cambodia and Laos and those places where you got shot for complaining, and they've talked to me a bunch about the delicious rats they trapped in the rice paddies to have something to eat. That sauce made from rotten fish is something else if you've never smelled or tasted it. You sure won't get rid of the aftertaste easily
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I've ate a lot of things.
Opossum isn't one of them.
I would though.
Not an appetizing critter to look at
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I would rather spend the cash and buy a choice ribeye.
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I have a Louisiana Cookbook that has a recipe for roasted possum. There's a description of coming into a families house on Christmas and in the center of the table, a rack, with the possum hanging by it tail on the rack.
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Whenever I think about a possum, I remember a story this Black fellow who helped me on the farm told. He said this happened in a little old Black country church. The preacher started praying, and looked up and saw a possum hanging by it's tail from a rafter up in the belfry. The preacher supposedly said,"Let us lift thine eyes up to God.....damn what a rat."
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Never had to eat one. While in ARNG; we had a Cajun/Dago cook named Tony Barilola. Think Justin Wilson and Emeril combined. He’d cook up just about anything you brought him and make it palatable. We had Kibbi, garfish croquettes, rattlesnake, frog legs, buffalo fish, crappie, bass, venison. 2 true possum stories: Grandfather loved to coon hunt. Went on a hunt and wound up with 2 coons which he had in a tow sack slung over his shoulder. He worked at the cotton seed oil mill in a small Delta town. Got there at daylight and needed to be at work at 7:00am; didn’t have time to skin and dress the 2 coons. A little black boy ran up to him and asked “Whatcha gots in da bag, Mister Paige”? Grandfather told him: Got coons and if you guess how many, I’ll give you both of em!” The boy felt the bag from all angles and said :”Fo!”
Worked with a guy who’s Dad was a Supt of Ed and a lay pastor. He’d supply a church pulpit when the pastor was absent and would get calls from all over. Said his Dad had preached at a church, and the head deacon had invited his family home for dinner. Said his Dad was very social and the deacon’s wife threw an apron on and was rustling about in the kitchen. There were boilers on the stove and he lifted the lid off one that had turnip greens heating up. He replaced the lid and pulled the lid off the adjacent pot. He said there was a possum clutching a large sweet tater in a rolling boil in that pot! His Dad was a hearty eater but kinda picked around the main course that day. That sure painted a word picture!
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No grinners for me.
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Didja ever smell a possum? I would have to be a day away from dying of starvation before I ate one and I eat pickled tripe and pigs feet jelly.
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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.
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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.
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I’ve seen possums crawl outta deer carcasses….
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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.
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I’ve seen possums crawl outta deer carcasses….
🤢🤢🤢 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.
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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. 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.
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Didja ever smell a possum? I would have to be a day away from dying of starvation before I ate one and I eat pickled tripe and pigs feet jelly. Ever smelled a quail?
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It was reported to be possum spaghetti provided for us on a bikeride.
Tasted fine but everyone was hungry.
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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.
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Never ate one nor had the notion to. If I was hungry enough I would eat one. I just haven't been hungry enough.
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I’ve seen possums crawl outta deer carcasses….
🤢🤢🤢 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 thing about ham, is it comes from right beside a pigs a$$. Ain't eating no possum. I'm a better hunter than that.
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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.😂
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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. 😬
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So, Jay Leno was funnin' us? I hope Jed Clampet does not hear about this.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My grandfather on my mother's side, when I was a young boy, used to always say to me that he was going to take me possum hunting.
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Smothered possum served with greens and sweet potatoes was a favorite dish. Stopped eating them after watching one crawl out of the bloated belly of a dead cow.
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Dogs caught one and rolled it around in the back yard last night. They lost interest when it sulled.
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I've eaten lots of "different" wild game, I'll pass on the rodents though. There was a German community west of St. Louis that made summer sausage out of coon, it was pretty good.
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i shoot every possum i see 6 - 8 possum per year with my 22 K-Hornet ,22 LR don`t kill them that easy the 22 K-hornet smacks possums dead right away . > and NO i ain`t ever going to eat one ICK !
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