On Sun 06 Mar 2005 01:38:58p, TheAlligator wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> Wayne Boatwright > wrote:
>>My childhood didn't include any of that, thank God! Our family must have
>>already been further up the food chain. :-) My mother's housekeeper used
>>to tell of roasting possums, and we were quite happy to only have heard
>>about it.
> Oh, Wayne, I feel sorry for you! I hope you saw my post about being
> introduced to "polenta" as a child in the form of fried mush. When I
> asked my mom a few years ago how to make it, she said"why would you
> want to eat that crap? We only had it because your dad was on strike

Now, that's something I did have as a kid, and loved it! My grandmother
would occasionally make wonderful fried mush for breakfast, along with
fried apples, and streak-a-lean or ham on the side.

> for 2 months". OK, I'll admit it - the possum is going a little too
> far even for me - possum, the OTHER yellow meat.
>

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Wayne Boatwright
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Sam Goldwyn, 1882-1974