anybody eat this for real?

That would be a Haahd..NO

George Jefferson did on one episode!

NO

I’d give it a go

If you ever seen one of those thing crawl out of the south end of rotted cow carcass you would definitely think twice about eating one.

No way!!

When I was a kid a saw my grandma grab many by the tail and cut their throat and bleed them out. She would them par boil them and bake them with a lot of sage and pepper. We didn't have much money and I thought everyone ate possums until I got and moved away.

Did you like it?

Honestly I don't remember it being bad. It was better than not eating.

I donated a large number of opossums to a study on diseases and parasites in Ohio, that Wilmington College took part in. They found bubonic plague in opossums, that I caught on my farm. Fortunately, it's not fatal to people much anymore.

I posted this on another forum earlier.

". These marsupials can harbor numerous pathogens, which may affect people, pets, and livestock. Among those, some protozoa (e.g., Leishmania infantum, Trypanosoma cruzi, Toxoplasma gondii), helminths (e.g., Ancylostoma caninum, Trichinella spiralis, Alaria marcianae, Paragonimus spp.) and arthropods (e.g., ticks, fleas) present substantial public health and veterinary importance, due to their capacity to cause disease in humans, domestic animals, and wildlife. "

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00436-021-07072-4

Opposums are full of parasites, bacteria and viruses.

Keith

Probably some sort of conspiracy mr Kieth. Somalis are probably injecting our possums. Let's take a time out and find a YouTube video providing some insight into it.

YUK !

Sissies!!!

I've never had possum but I'd try it if someone set that stew in front of me.

I’d also try it.
Lots of animals are scavengers. Like lobsters!

Had a few back legs when we were in our teens. We tried everything we caught. Possum, woodchuck, skunk, muskrat, coon, fox, beaver. I never do recall eating mink. This was a long time ago. Only ones we really like were beaver, coon, muskrat and woodchuck

I'll try anything, once.

Checked that one off my list, I'm good.

Beaver and muskrat are delicious, groundhogs are okay, better when they are young. Never tried coon yet.

A man I worked with who is long since retired and passed away told me when he was in the military, he met some guys wherever he was stationed who hunted possums and caught them alive. They took them back to their farm and kept them in a pen and fed them a better quality of food. He said after a couple weeks the possum got cleaned out and slicked up and looked lots different than when he was caught. Then they were butchered and eaten.