Have you eaten Oppossum? Armadillo?

[Texas Star]

Anyone here eaten oppossum or armadillo?

I know that many people do eat possums. Armadillos are said to carry leprosy.

If you have eaten either, what was your impression? Did you like it? Do you know anyone who's eaten armadillo? Did they get leprosy or any other ailment or disease?

Let's throw in raccoons. Are they eaten? Do they have many parasites?

 

[tyusclan]

I've eaten nearly everything else that lives in the woods, but have never eaten possum or armadillo. I'd probably try some possum if it had been penned up and fed a clean diet for a month or two, but I don't think I'd want it straight out of the woods.

Armadillos eat mostly grubs, bugs and worms, so they're fairly clean. I'd probably try it if the opportunity presented itself.

They don't necessarily carry leprosy, but they are the only animal other than humans that can contract it.

 

[Grayfox]

I have eaten possum and coon.
The coon is so-so. I wouldn't go looking for it, but I'd eat it again if I was starving.
I had a Widlife Officer tell me once that he believed that the only reason possums survive is because they're just so foul that most predators won't touch them. I believe him!

 

[Mr Pokeyman]

I ate some meat on a stick (skewered) being sold by street vendors in Alongapo, Phillipines (Subic Bay). They cooked it over charcoal in push carts. I liked it. It was gooood. I shouldn't have asked what it was but I did. That was the last time I ate monkey meat on a stick.

 

[Faulkner]

Armadillo is just 'possum on the half shell.

 

[Smokin' Iron]

I would try raccoon if prepared right.

Possum....no way, not even on a dare.

 

[tops]

One of my grandpas and his brother liked possum. They would put them up and feed them (I think) milk, bread and sweet taters for awhile to clean them out. I put chickens, possum and cats in the same food group. All three are foul and I ain't eating any of the three. Larry

 

[coltle6920]

Here we go now....We'll be hearing in the news about numerous pedestrians getting hit by cars rumored to have been seen scraping up the roadkill into a crockpot down in Texas.

 

[gtk]

Coon is good if cooked right. Possum, hadn't had any that made me want to try it again


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[kwselke]

Armadillos are too hard to skin, but I know a place where buzzards love to eat them. The old the guy that has the next place over from where I took the attached 'dillo used to trap raccoons for the fur. He told me he made more on the black market from the meat than he did legally on the pelts. I did not delve further into the issue.

 

[kamloops67]

i ate part of a black bear tonight...mmm not so bad in a stew with squash and taters onions garlic home made biscuits...i wonder if its been put away yet... no possums though never even seen a live one before theyre usually laying on the road when i pass through abbotsford area im not even sure armadillos even exist. ate a squirrel before though.

 

[RYNO]

A couple years ago I caught a oppossum in a live trap in the back yard. I took it to work and gave it to a foriegn guy I worked with. This was a day or two before Christmas. When we came back from the long weekend, he thanked me several times. He said it was "very, very very yummy" ,they had it for Christmas dinner. The awesome Christmas oppossum

 

[finesse_r]

Coon tastes a lot like very greasy roast beef. It is not really to my liking but it would keep a man from starving. I don't care for squirrel either, but I have eaten it and would again if necessary. So far I have not eaten opossum or armadillo, and unless this economy gets a lot worse I never will. My taste run to deer, beef, chicken, rabbit, and pork. Quail and dove are pretty good also.

 

[Marshwheeling]

Was it just today where Caje said on another thread that he had eaten armadillo? It didn't sound too tasty, and I would be in no hurry to try it. I would like to have a stuffed one though. I passed on one in Afton, Wyoming once on a motorbike trip, because I would have had trouble packing it. Yup, kicking myself ever since.

 

[Bob R]

I ate some meat on a stick (skewered) being sold by street vendors in Alongapo, Phillipines (Subic Bay). They cooked it over charcoal in push carts. I liked it. It was gooood. I shouldn't have asked what it was but I did. That was the last time I ate monkey meat on a stick.

I loved the monkey meat, or rat meat, whatever it might have been. Coming back across the river that started with "S", throwing money to the bonka boat girls, and finishing up my "meat" on a stick. It was a great place to be young in.

I have shot quite a few armadillos, usually left them lying for the other residents of the forest to eat.

bob

 

[Frank46]

My father in law ate just about anything that moved.For the wifes bridal party had a huge stew pot full of racoon. Used to grab a hunk and suck the meat off the bone. Just like roast beef. Used to keep a few coons in the freezer for parties and such. One year he got carried away with the seasoning and a
lot of beer was consumed between bites. Frank
Mr.Pokeyman, spent some time around olongapo city and yep monkey on a stick was one of my favorites. Had a buddy fall in one of the ditches and came up smelling like he had spent the night in someone's septic system.
They didn't have sewers at the time so the ditches were usually full of s--t.In Olongapo city you never knew what was going to happen. I watched two guys with the butterfly knives chase a rather large lizard across the dance floor I asked the young lady what are they going to do with it. They gonna cook and eat it. Frank

 

[LouisianaJoe]

I have not eaten possum or armadillo.
I have eaten nutria, alligator, rattlesnake, Poule d' eau, gallinule, blackbird and other birds that I was not told what they were.

In Louisiana, you have heard people called Coonasses. This is not an insult as they call themselves this. I have heard from the locals that the reason that they call them that is that it is the only thing that they will not eat. You have to understand that the original Cajuns lived off of the land and they ate what was available. They did learn how to make what they ate taste very good.

 

[BC38]

I've tasted barbequed possum and coon both.
Possum was too gamey.
Coon was too greasy.
Never tried armadillo.
Squirrel is good - fix it like chicken, either floured and fried or boiled with dumplings. Gotta' get them BIG squirrels from the midwest that been eating acorns and walnuts though. These little things around here aren't big enough to eat...

 

[Fishinfool]

When I was a kid growing up in rural CT, I at least tried about anything that could be shot or trapped at least once (No Armadillo's though) Of all the non traditional game I have tried, a young woodchuck that has been feeding on clover or grain all summer is very good. A friend I grew up with, who introduced me to coon hunting with dogs, used to always bring em home for his mom to cook. She made a heck of a stew with them.

Larry

 

[Hack]

Lunch... Anyone????