Is it ok to eat possum or is it shitty meat?
>>7505352
I've never had it, but my understanding is that it's shitty meat. I know a lot of rednecks who will eat all manner of game (and roadkill, if it's fresh) but they won't touch possum or raccoon.
>>7505352
Greasy as fuck.
![8a+opossum[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/PcEPYo5.jpg "8a+opossum[1].jpg")
It's delicious when prepared properly. With no seasoning at all it tastes kinda like pork teriyaki but with a much lighter texture. If the critters weren't so dang hideous I'm sure they'd be much more popular.
http://cannundrum.blogspot.com/2013/12/baked-opossum.html
I've got an old cookbook with some possum recipes in it, but I've never tried any, myself.
>>7505352
I've heard if you catch them and feed them corn for a couple weeks before you slaughter them they taste pretty good.
>>7505394
Do they have scent glands that have to be removed like a racoon does when your skinning them?
>>7505394
Thanks. I'm gonna go ahead and skin it then. Save it for later.
>>7505388
Their flavor varies depending on what they've been eating. Hillbillies live trap them, feed them on corn pops and milk for 2 weeks before slaughter to make their flesh taste even sweeter. The one I had >>7505394 my mammalogy professor killed after it got caught in one of his traps on a specimen collecting trip.
Also, just as an FYI you might not want to shoot too many on your property. They're important for controlling ticks if you're in an area that's prone to them.
>>7505416
I didn't prepare it myself, but the literature I've read seems to indicate so.
>>7505415
Too late for that. I've been trying to get that fucker for 2 weeks. Smart and big. My dogs cornered it and I popped its ass this morning.
>>7505424
>controlling ticks
Honestly, never heard of that and I'll have to read up on it. They can hang out in the woods and that's fine....but this one was getting all over the porch, getting into everything, making messes, knocking things over, setting the dogs off. It had to be done.
>>7505352
proteins are proteins
>>7505448
I understand, I have a beagle who freaks out whenever she sniffs one.
Just wanted to pass the info along. I recently got diagnosed with Lyme and have been trying to tell anyone who will listen.
>>7505503
> I recently got diagnosed with Lyme
Jesus Christ how horrifying
>>7505352
Why would you kill an innocent wild animal just for getting on your porch. A possum is a gentle creature. People like you make me sick.
> hurr durr, I killed an innocent possum, deer, squirrel, fish, coyote, whatever
Eat more vegetables, go vegan, and stop killing innocent animals. Go fuck yourselves
>>7505576
FUCK OFF
>>7505352
Other than the fact that it's riddled with parasites and will kill you?
>>7505564
It really is. I actually got diagnosed four years back and they prescribed me a month of antibiotics but I was a stupid teenager and didn't finish taking them because they tore up my gut so badly.
Last 6 months I've been ultra sluggish, need at least 10 hours of sleep every night, severe concentration problems that I never had in college, etc. Got some blood work done after I found another tick on me and they said I have a bad case of acute lyme disease that I must have had for a while now. Currently on week 2 of an 8 week antibiotics course. Every bowel movement is an ordeal.
>>7505388
>Popped one this morning. If it's not worth messing with then I'll just let the vultures have it.
If you're not going to eat it, don't shoot it.
Especially possums, which will eat mice and rats, which are critters you really don't want around.
>>7505433
sleep tight popper
>>7505576
nerd
>>7505836
I dont get a hard on by killing things. I will do it if necessary. It needed to be done though because this possum was tearing shit up and other stuff.
It's in the freezer now. I don't know what to do with it just yet. I might try to make some jerky out of him.
>>7505576
You obviously haven't been around possums much if you think they're gentle.
>>7505576
People sure got asshurt over your bait. 9/10
>>7505352
Sounds like a good way to pick up some gnarly disease or parasite. I like unusual game myself but wouldn't risk it. Same reason I don't eat bear.
>>7505433
...popped its ass?
>>7505424
lmfao
>>7505433
>>7505717
That's shit man, stay strong.
>>7505836
>If you're not going to eat it, don't shoot it.
This. Live traps are a thing. You can call your local wildlife management to take it off your hands. Otherwise, eat what you kill.
>>7506554
How do I eat field mice and neutra and not waste the death? What can I make with them? every time I mow the field the mice congregate in the garage for some reason. Neutra are always at my pond.
>>7506554
where i live they no longer come and take them off for free... it cost between $150-200 to have a animal taken off now.
Why the fuck would someone eat possum? It's not like they are a delicacy. Fucking gross. Enjoy your intestinal worms OP.
>>7506576
>neutra
Coypu are plenty big enough to eat. I don't see a problem.
>field mice
Get a pet snake, gator, meat-eating aquatic turtle, cat, etc and let them eat it. That's what I do.
>>7506579
>it cost between $150-200 to have a animal taken off now.
Dump it in their parking lot or mailbox.
>>7506580
>Enjoy your intestinal worms OP.
Idiot.
>>7506582
> pet snake
>>7505717
>It really is. I actually got diagnosed four years back and they prescribed me a month of antibiotics but I was a stupid teenager and didn't finish taking them because they tore up my gut so badly.
>Last 6 months I've been ultra sluggish, need at least 10 hours of sleep every night, severe concentration problems that I never had in college, etc. Got some blood work done after I found another tick on me and they said I have a bad case of acute lyme disease that I must have had for a while now. Currently on week 2 of an 8 week antibiotics course. Every bowel movement is an ordeal.
HOLY FUCK ANON IM RIGHT THERE TOO MAN. week 2. get some probiotics in you dude!!
Minus the having it and being dumb about treatment earlier...
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>>7506580
>It's not like they are a delicacy
People have been calling them delicious since colonial days. Most folk just stopped eating them in the early 20th century after they started being more concerned about the cleanliness of their meat and it became stigmatized as white trash food.
My city council's minutes from the 19th century discuss annual 'possum dinners held by the aldermen who considered them mighty fine eatin.
right now mostly yogurt. some saeurkraut, kimchi can be good.probiotics are expensive in canada m8. pretty poor and jobless now. Try different types of yogurt too. Also, dont fucking eat any bacteria within a 2 hour window of antibiotic ingestion or they wont do anything for you...
>>7506750
hadn't thought about kimchi, I'll give it a shot! My doctor actually told me to not have dairy products 2 hours before or after because the calcium messes with absorption, I'll keep the bacteria thing in mind too.
iron too, but yeah man... antibiotics will be wasted on the bacteria u ingest
>>7506792
thanks for the tip, you might have saved me a lot of trouble.
>>7506792
I drink hand sanitizer after eating rode kill so the bacteria wont make me sick.
>>7505503
We're you diagnosed by a naturopath or an M.D.? Also can you post pictures of your beagle? I had one growing up. Great dogs.
>>7506923
my primary care doctor, I wouldn't trust anything from a naturopath
roasted with onons and sweet potatoes, its pork like.
good if it had a good diet
>>7505352
Boil it up and feed it to your dogs.
>>7505433
You do know that possums keep the level of ticks and fleas to a minimum, right?
I'll eat a lot of wild animals, but I try to stay away from the ones that eat from human garbage. Possums, racoons, skunks, those sort of things.
Its not the thrown out food thats the problem, but rather the other fucked up shit we throw away. Chemicals and other toxic shit that stays in the animals' system, much like mercury in some fish.
Thats not even mentioning the other really fucked up diseases possums can carry.
i took apart a possum this past summer and the thing was full of worms. i wouldn't bother with trying to eat one of them
>>7508992
Everything is full of worms. That is part of nature. You have to deworm with worming medicine in order to have things that don't have worms.
Protip: don't play with the intestines and offal, stick to the meat, kid.
Nail possum to cedar plank. Bake at 400 for one hr. Remove possum from board. Eat the cedar plank.
As you've heard OP you can eat possum just fine. William Taft did while gathering support for his presidential run. Teddy Roosevelt had gone bear hunting during his term and a story of him being merciful to a starving bear became hugely popular in the press (it wasn't true - after letting the chained-up starving bear go, he had someone shoot it anyway and they ate it for a week). Eventually someone decided to make some money off the nice mental image it conjured up, and made a soft toy: Teddy's Bear, which was the start of our good old teddy bears we have today.
Anyway, the soft toys and the story had been a great thing for Roosevelt's popularity, and made a lot of money for toy manufacturers, and so people looked for a similar thing for his hand-picked successor. Well, he went down south for a big feast and was served a massive roast possum, which he consumed, and enjoyed, and after he was done he was presented with a possum plush toy. They manufactured shitloads of these possums and shipped them out, along with live possums in cages for the people in the cities who had never seen a possum before to gawk at. It was a total flop - obviously too artificial and a story about a guy eating a whole possum doesn't capture the people like a president being kind to a starving animal. So after a short while they just dropped out of circulation. And that's the story of the teddy bear and its successor that never was, the Billy Possum
>>7509649
kek
>>7506554
I wish my dad would live trapping and relocating squirrels during winter, just to save birdseed. Squirrels are not magic and will starve if separated from their infrastructure that time of year. When dumped in the woods, they have about as much of a chance as you would.
>>7511294
*would stop live trapping
>>7511294
He should eat them instead.
Fried squirrel, squirrel and dumplings, brains and eggs are mighty good eating.
>redneck cuisine
>>7511325
He won't even eat the rabbits he shoots. Probably too lean for his republican body.
>>7511338
If he likes to fish he can use the rabbit meat/livers as bait...also bacon. Catfish like it.
>>7506395
yes. with a gun. popped it. with a gun. are you okay
>>7511294
>Squirrels are not magic
welp. ya learn something every day.
>>7506923
>>7506946
<3 beagle
Another good way to eat possum is bake till tender, shred the meat. Mix shredded possum meat with some leftover roast, and shredded pork (1:1:1). Heat this meat mixture with some onion, and carrot, a little potato if you want. Salt pepper, etc. Now stuff this meat mixture into some empanada dough and fry it up. They make delicious little meat pies.
>>7505352
>or
The answer is yes to both questions.
not too noticeable in chili though.
>>7511783
I bet shredding the meat mix and adding BBQ sauce on a toasted bun with pickles and onions would be great. I'm def trying this.
>>7505576
>A possum is a gentle creature.
I hope you come across one in your closed, dark garage one night and try to scare it away by yelling.
>>7505433
you needed dogs to catch a possum? you must be fat as fuck.
>>7511325
>squirrel
>eggs
>>7505352
Shit is cash, gravy goes top on buttermilk biscuits mofo!!
>>7512693
> what id OP is a grill
Used to date a chick that lived in Appalachia for about 10 years. She killed and ate things that scarred me for life. I'm talking back woods at her core.
