[Homestead] Playing Possum

Bunjov at aol.com Bunjov at aol.com
Tue Dec 9 20:50:35 EST 2008


Excellent humor, indeed!
 
I dunno, though - my adolescence, in the fifties (no, that was the  19-50's, 
silly) included TV episodes of the  Beverly Hillbillies, wherein possum seemed 
to be a delicacy, and Granny Clampett  delighted in serving up a bunch of it 
and passing it around the table on a long,  forked stick.
 
We (former now-deceased husband and I) had - briefly - a boarder from  Mexico 
- in the days before anything that smacked of 'immigration' was a crime.  We 
also had a fruitless mulberry tree just outside the kitchen window,  which was 
inhabited by a family of squirrels. 
 
Lemme tell ya - he had his eye on those squirrels. By the time I got wind  of 
it, he already had struck a deal with the other members of the masonry crew  
whereby they were all bidding on the first available squirrel that was brought 
 in DOA.
 
I have spent the last half-hour trying to devise a poem to Sir Kristopher  
Bacon, in which the last line would rhyme with the word 'impossumble'.
 
No luck.
Sandy
Mid-Mojave
Eating cold pizza donated earlier today by a neighbor down the road.
 
On the serious side, I would like to know...to what are possums most  closely 
related? Rodents - right? How far up the food chain do we have to go  before 
we get to a species that's...er...um - edible? And skin-able? I am of the  
firm belief that every part of the animal should be used. I have a friend who  
makes jewelry from rattlesnake bones and fine copper wire. Pretty - but kinda  
scratchy.
 
 
In a message dated 12/9/2008 4:57:41 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
bobford79 at yahoo.com writes:

Hah.  Excellent humor,  Lisa


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---  On Tue, 12/9/08, Lisa K.V. Perry <lisakvperry at gmail.com> wrote:

I  hope to Hades that we are not ever so hungry that I am inclined to  cook
> opossum. There is an abundance of wildlife around here including  all of 
the above and those animals sound far more appetizing. I've tried snake  and 
frog before and they were okay. Heaven help us lour list members if we're  all 
suddenly salivating for an opposum dinner. We'll knowthe straits are  indeed 
dire, or we're feeling rather adventurous.
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