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Duppers

(28,120 posts)
5. Oh yuck!! 😝
Mon Jul 5, 2021, 06:29 PM
Jul 2021

Growing up in Tennessee I heard that some people did eat possums but I thought that was just a myth. Just now look it up and found this:

Native Americans seem to have enjoyed eating opossum before Europeans or Africans arrived, and they introduced the animal to early colonists. William Strachey encountered the opossum in the Viriginia colony between 1607 and 1612, and his description made it clear that the animal was good to eat.


https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2019/08/a-possum-crisp-and-brown-the-opossum-and-american-foodways/

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