Thanks for the information.

Roger,

What day and time for dinner? Just let me know!

George,

Don't take it too hard, we eat possums even in the far northern reaches of Southern Illinois. Me and Droge had a nice young coon at Thanksgiving time just a couple years ago.


Destry

Destry: Those are yankee possums. Their ancestors were displace during the War of Northern Aggression and don't carry the same flavor as their Souther kin. As for coon, I know of no one North or South who still eats coon, especially since Davy Crockett just passed away. I guess, some folks will eat anything if they're hungry enough.

Just My Humble Opinion.......George

George,

I've eaten them both south of "The Line" and couldn't tell a bit of difference. My people were (and still are) just poor white trash and would eat about anything that kept body and soul together. I'm not decended from the Lees or Washingtons, just regular home folks.


DLH

Destry: As it happens I am descended from the Lee's and the Washington's through the Randolph lineage. I have never eaten either possum or coon (that I know of) but when you go into some of the barbeque houses down South you never really know what you're eating. I just have gall bladder removal surgery so I may have to cut out the barbeque entirely! Sad, what else is there to live for?

Best Regards, George

George;

Prior to gall bladder removal I could not eat beans of any kind, after I was able to resume the bean diet but no uncooked onions to this day (9yrs hence). The gall bladder thing is a mystery.

Luckly it did not interfer with my taste for FG

Rog

Even I've eaten coon when I was growing up in Michigan, and it was a roadkill coon to boot.... still warm and I'm sure JUST done kicking when I found it. I mounted it using my Northwestern School of Taxidermy lessons and had it on the table as we had a stew of it that my grandmother made(that woman could cook anything and make it good). My sister was chowing down and asked what the stew was and I told her. She looked at me, looked at the coon down there snarling at her, then ran outside and threw up.... I'm still laughing 40+ yrs later.:rotf: True story... you can't, or at least don't have to make stuff like that up...

Flanders,

George just obviously doesn't travel in the same circles of the South that I do.

I finally got around to mailing that comb raiser today.


DLH

Destry;

Was your comb riser made out of cardboard in the true and traditional "Ole Clunker" style?

Roger

Nope, sorry to report it was leather, but I live in hope that you'll make me one of your famous waxed cardboard models.

What about that muskrat dinner dammit! When shall I arrive?


DLH