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In article >,
(TheAlligator) wrote:
> 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
> for 2 months". OK, I'll admit it - the possum is going a little too
> far even for me - possum, the OTHER yellow meat.
<shiver> I've rehabbed baby possums...
Those creatures are chock FULL of parasitic worms here in the south!!!
I won't go into detail, after all this is a food list.
I'd have to be starving to death to eat one, and I still might have
trouble keeping it down. :-P
Just the thought... <ralph!>
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K.
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