Have you eaten Oppossum? Armadillo?

Oh yea, opossums, armadillos, coons, I just keep foil in the truck, and when I find something in the road I just wrap it in foil with some dried macaroni and throw it on the manfold. I call it "the manifold method". An hour or so later - it's ready to eat! Heck, sometimes it's so flattened on the road, I don't even know what it is.

Ok, I'm kidding.:D

No, I have eaten neither.
 
My father was a young adult by the time the depression arrived as were most of his friends.They were also immigrants who came here to escape poverty after WWII.Ive never had possum or armadillo,but these people could make the best meals (a number of them became very successful chefs) out of the oddest and cheapest ingredients.I've always liked poor people food :-)
 
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Critters

I've eaten a lot of different critter's but not Armadillo or possom.
Now Porcupines are a tasty meal. Just tough to skin. ;)
 
steamloco76 said:
I've had to kill a few opossums which have invaded my garbage or my back porch. No way I would EVER eat any animal that smells that bad unless I was starving. Possum-even the crows and turkey vultures won't eat them!
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I popped a possum one night and was gonna bury it the next AM. By the time I got up the vultures were tearing it to shreds. :D
 
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Mr. Pokeyman,

Same here. Was at Subic many times between 1969 and 1973. Dean
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I was on the carrier USS Independence. We were homeported at Subic in 1965. We did about 30 days off the coast of Vietnam each time out and then back to Subic for supplies and R&R in Olongapo. That had to be the craziest place I ever went to.:cool:
I ate a bunch of mystery meat there but never drank the water. Only drank San Miguel. Lots of it.
 
One summer, the grass in our front yard died - probably as the result of some kind of fungus. The wife insisted on a new front yard, so I laboriously installed a brand new St. Augustine grass front yard by myself, in the hot Texas summer. The next day, the yard was ripped up by armadillos. Thus began my nightly stakeout in an effort to kill the varmits that ripped up my new yard. That Sunday, at church, the story had evidently spread as a number of members stopped me to give me advice as to how to catch/kill/eliminate the varmits. What surprised me was when the Pastor told me to use .22 caliber shorts when shooting the armadillos (I actually couldn't shoot them with any firearm as there are 2 cops that live in the neighborhood). When I asked the Pastor if using the .22 Shorts was for quiet killing, he told me: "no, the .22 shorts have enough power to kill them, but they'll crawl out of your yard and die somewhere else, so you don't have to deal with the mess." Turns out the Pastor was an avid gardener, and had no love for armadillos. I was finally able to catch the grass killing pair of armadillos in the yard one night, and tuned them both up with a Louisville slugger. Who'd guess that armadillos could run so fast? No, I've never eaten either armadillos or possums, and I don't plan on starting.

Regards,

Dave
 
Just about every year we get someone who has been watching too much TV and comes to live off the land. The two strangest things eaten I ever heard of were a couple of guys up near Livengood with a porcupine, skinning must have been a treat. They claimed it was just fine. The other was a guy went up one of the rivers and got so desparate he shot a raven and tried to eat it. The smell was so bad he had to stand down wind couldn't get it down and offered it to his dog who just took a wiff and did that deep in the throat warning growl. The dog left probably knew anyone that desparate would figure what else could be eaten.
 
I gave never eaten armadillo but I have eaten in Amarillo.
Had some good BBQ. Saw them old Caddies sticking up in the air.
 
Never et either one, but I would if I had the chance.
I have had Rocky Mountain oysters though. Just so I could say I did it.:D
Jim
 
Wells, l'll have none of the above described delicacies....

Even though they are not any worse than free range chicken....

We all know a chicken will eat anything....

Why they will even fight one another, to be the first to scratch and peck under an outhouse.


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I did try Armadillo but if you re read my post you will see that it included a campfire and mescal. I would respectfully decline to partake of either again.
Wasn't too fond of the possum or the raccoon either.

But I can say that I at least tried it:D
 
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Today's me & the wife's day off from work & we were planning on grabbing some BBQ but after reading all these comments I'm not too sure I feel like having BBQ now... I think we'll just go to Jason's deli & have a salad :p
 
I've read that porcupines are good meat, but that one should leave them for someone who may be lost in the forest and need the meat.

I think I saw that in one of Bradford Angier's books. He was speaking of N. American ones. But I guess it'd apply to African ones.
 
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