[SOC] Done with it.

[Curt Steger]

Opossum is ok, but we had something better when I was growing up in
Texas.... Opossum on the half-shell! Most folks called them armadillo, but
what did they know. Now add some wild pig and rattlesnake and you have a
feast.

73 de NA7CS
Curt

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Mike Besemer (WM4B) <mwbesemer at cox.net>wrote:

> Pete,
>
> I was okay until you threw in the Carp.  A man's gotta have SOME standards!
> (Besides, growing up on Lake Michigan, there were plenty of Perch and Smelt
> to be had.  Eating Smelt was like eating pure butter!)
>
> We'd have included raccoon as well, and some branches of the family believe
> the opossum was fit to eat.
>
> Thanksgiving meal consisted of whatever the clan had been able to kill
> during the past week or so.  Some of the family was so poor that the only
> meat they had is what they could kill.  Dad and I always left our deer with
> them... we were lucky enough to be able to afford that fancy 'beef' stuff.
>
> 73,
>
> Mike
> WM4B
>