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I take it you are jesting about eating them... I can't imagine anyone actually eating one of those cute critters.
I wouldn't hunt them but I did eat them before in gumbo and I loved it. I don't even like gumbo usually (not a big fan of okra).
But I don't know when I hear about eating possums... I believe Beverly Hillbillies used to eat possum...
I have never had possum. Some people say it's good but my dad told me it's really gross so I'm taking his word for it on that one.
Your father is correct because Possum's like to feed on animal carcasses and road kill.
An old timer once told me that when I asked him about eating possum. His exact words were " No way they hang around anything thats dead".
He also told me a story about how a crazy cousin of his would actually hunt the possums which I will never forget. As far as squirrel goes I have been told by a few people that they are very tasty.
The Beverly Hillbillies show wow....... (Careful now Muman your showing your age however you might be talking about the more recent movie
) came up with some odd sounding foods. I recall possum pie and crawdads..... I just now had to look up crawdads to see what they actually were
. Their crayfish. I don't eat lobster so them little critters are safe from me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crayfish