"George Shirley" > wrote in message
.. .
> cshenk wrote:
>> "Billy" wrote
>>
>>> "cshenk" wrote:
>>
>>>> the cheapest meat in Sasebo
>>>> Japan.
>>> How many on RFC live there? Just an East Tennessee native and our
>>> cheapest meat might be possum.
>>
>> Grin, you'd be suprised! One of the others said cheap dish used lamb.
>> Not likely to have been living in the USA. This is a global community,
>> not all are USA (or Canada) folks. Another cheap meat in Japan was
>> shrimp.
>>
>> BTW, fixed right Possum is mighty fine eats! Had it more than once as a
>> kid at friends houses.
> If we caught a possum when I was a kid Mom made us bring it home in a
> sack. She would put it in a cage and feed it rabbit food for a few weeks
> to "purify" it as possums eat a lot of carrion. Never did like it though,
> too greasy and all dark meat. Now, raccoon, that's a dish for gourmands,
> sweet, tender, good stuff. PITA to clean as they have a lot of scent
> glands that have to come out.

My grandmother drew the line at possum. She'd cook anything else my uncles
brought home but she wouldn't cook possum.

Ms P