Re: eating possum
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12/19/19 10:37 PM
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danny clifton
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I have heard from several reliable sources that an opossum will eat its way into a dead cow and make the cow's stomach move and noises come out of them. I have heard that too but Ive never seen it. Have to ask though why its bad if a possum does it but ball park franks are in every grocery store?
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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Re: eating possum
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12/20/19 12:55 AM
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During the depression my maternal grandmother gifted a platter of fried chicken and potatoes and colard greens to a family from Arkansas that were having a tough streak. A few days later the lady showed up with the platter full of fried coon and possum saying her husband had a good hunt the night before. Grandmother sat the plate on the table as they stood there talking. My granddad came in from the back yard and as he walked by he snagged a piece off the plate. Something stopped him before he put it in his mouth, after he smelled it he pitched it to his dog. The dog caught it and immediately dropped it, smelled it, looked up at granddad and whined wagged his tail and left the room. As told to me by my grandmother about 55 years ago after I caught one and asked her if we could eat it. They are definitely on the survival only list along with buzzards and any other carrion eaters. And I have personally seen them in the body cavity of week old dead cows that were stinking pretty bad. They say you are what you eat and they will eat some really nasty things.
“The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined” B. Disraeli
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Re: eating possum
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12/20/19 01:44 AM
12/20/19 01:44 AM
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For those you have eaten grinner, what does it taste like...?
I broiled coyote loin one time and it was...nasty. Maybe we shouldn't have pushed it over about 4 miles after a non-lethal hit before we got it. I've also eaten a piece of a ditch tiger (long, long ago) that was parted out by my friend's .243. Pretty disgusting as well.
P.S. a turkey buzzard smell worse than a possum. You can small them...at distance.
"And God said, Let us make man in our image �and let them have dominion �and all the creatures that move along the ground". Genesis 1:26
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Re: eating possum
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12/20/19 05:53 AM
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danny clifton
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I tried coyote once. taste as bad as it smells. Possum and muskrat meat both smell bad to me when raw so haven't tried either. I don't care for bobcat goose or duck.
Rabbit ,squirrel ,quail ,pheasant ,turkey ,bull frogs ,flat heads ,channels ,bull heads ,walleye ,crappie ,crawdads ,deer ,elk ,moose ,cows ,hogs, and chickens are a pretty good variety of edible animals in my little world.
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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Re: eating possum
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12/20/19 06:48 AM
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When I was first married about 40 years ago I began selling coon carcasses to a fella from Milwaukee who grew up in Mississippi. He asked for a possum for his sister, told him the next time he came out I would have one gutted for her, told me I didn't need to skin it. When the two of them came I was gone and my wife had them loading up from the freezer in the garage. Wife asked Bessie how she planned to cook the possum, she said "Throw it on the grill whole, fur on, and when it was done the skin cracked off, the fat would be bubbling, and it was going to be soooo good. We are having possum for thanksgiving and coon for Christmas." I am sure my wife had to suppress a look of disgust, she had a hard time eating anything not from a store, a little better about it after 43 years with me. I must say Steve Rinella in his first book ate what looked to be a possum in Vietnam cooked up the same way if my memory is correct.
Born twice, die once
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Re: eating possum
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12/20/19 09:14 AM
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I tried coyote once. taste as bad as it smells. Possum and muskrat meat both smell bad to me when raw so haven't tried either. I don't care for bobcat goose or duck. Danny- Then you wouldn't like muskrat if you didn't like duck. I think mrat tastes about the same as your typical puddle duck. I could chunk it up and put it in a typical wild duck (not the grain fed ducks) recipe and most people probably wouldn't know the the difference. Wallace- If I catch a nice mid-winter grinner this season. I'll try your recipe. I think anything that's out in the cold and snow has lost most of the external warm season vermin that inhabitant them.
"And God said, Let us make man in our image �and let them have dominion �and all the creatures that move along the ground". Genesis 1:26
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