On Aug 21, 10:56 pm, Kathleen > wrote:
> Bobo Bonobo® wrote:
> > On Aug 21, 11:07 am, Omelet > wrote:
>
> >>In article >,
> >> Steve Wertz > wrote:
>
> >>>On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 05:39:04 -0700, Bobo Bonobo® wrote:
>
> >>>>Not totally off topic. Whenever I hear, "Cancun," it reminds me of
> >>>>something I told my nephew a few years ago. I told him that if anyone
> >>>>asks him when he gets back, "How was Cancun?" that he should reply,
> >>>>"It's not quite as good as fresh coon, but I enjoyed it."
>
> >>>Did you hear about the big tanker full of mayonnaise coming out
> >>>of Mexico that sank on May 5th?
>
> >>>-sw
>
> >>That's what Cinko De Mayo is all about...
>
> > Here in the Ozarks, coon's vittles. Even better'n possum.
>
> I've tried raccoon. Even marinated, braised and spiced it wasn't
> anything I'd go out of my way to eat unless maybe I had kwashiorkor.
>
> Nevertheless, just about anything would probably be better than possum.
> A gal I knew grew up in the Ozarks. Meat wasn't on the table every
> day and what there was was usually shot or trapped locally. She and her
> sibs grew up knowing what body hunger felt like - hunger that goes
> beyond the belly. And even so she'd pass on possum unless somebody
> caught one live and they could pen it up and feed it clean food for a
> week or so.

I wouldn't really eat coon or possum, and I agree that "just about
anything would probably be better than possum." Those things are so
incredibly nasty. They stink almost as badly as the stuff they eat.
I was just making a (perhaps) not so funny joke about my Ozark roots.

--Bryan