I was flipping through some old family recipes and came across the old opossum recipe. I should’ve offered to cook Christmas dinner.
It starts with – “the opossum is a particularly fatty animal with a peculiar flavor.” And why do we have a recipe for peculiarly flavored animals? If it doesn’t taste like chicken, I don’t want to know about it.
“It is dressed much as one would a suckling pig…” The language strikes me as a little formal. You think if we were smart enough to use such language we would have been smart enough to avoid roadkill. Perhaps I think too much.
“Soak overnight, stuff with opossum stuffing, ….” Opossum stuffing? Hum, recipe not on this page. Now I’m intrigued. Flipping to stuffings. Past moose, reindeer, here stuffings right after squirrel.
We have apple stuffing, celery stuffing, chili, mushroom, onion, oyster, raisin, sage, sausage. Ah yes Opossum Stuffing. Contents onion, breadcrumbs, red pepper, hard cooked egg, fat, (I like a woman who can tell it like it is.) and opossum liver, of course.
As I sit here having a good laugh, it occurs to me. You guys never made me eat any of this stuff, right? Oh God, that’s going to add to my therapy bill.
Thanks for the laugh!
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Let’s all hope and pray we never HAVE to eat things like opossum, ever again…
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Sounds, er, yummy. Or something.
Did anybody ever make you eat scrapple?
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I love scrapple.
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🙂
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Oy..NOW I’ve seen and heard everything lol
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Like you said, let’s skip the roadkill. Yikes. I guess when all the chicken are eaten you have to scavenge as best you can. Ha ha ha.
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The things people used to eat..algae and wheat grass anyone? (What will they say of us?) Great giggles, thanks
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According to my grandmother, the best part of the possum was the head. I guess I should be grateful that the woman only made me eat calves brains.
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Oh my Mom once made me eat calf brains when she hadn’t quite cooked them thoroughly. Ruined me for life.
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“Soak overnight, stuff with opossum stuffing, ….”
pretty much sums up the story of my life ~ especially the soak overnight part
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Yum yum
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sounds scrummy.
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Sounds…delicious? No, that cant be right. Sounds…edible if you are starving in the woods or had grown up with possum, thus developing a taste for their gross musky bodies. But, to each their own.
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My son-in-law is from Tennessee. I think they eat possum there?
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