Pictures of Miscellaneous Stuff & Things

[PigStikr]

That'll be a good turkey I'm putting a corned beef in the crock pot....I can eat turkey any Friday @ Big Bob's dinner in Hale so I'm not hungry for it....my wifes Dixie Jo dawg don't let a possum live ....I've et Oppossm before if you kill one up in the timber they eat better than coon... gut sing off fur scrape it stuff it & roast very tasty if done right.....I wouldn't eat a city possum no way....

[Eustace]

In my opinion, slowly, slowly, but surely, the idea of buying a boat is brewing in you.

No, no, NO!!! I have absolutely no interest in owning a boat. Being out on the ocean in a little boat scares me silly.





I'm also not interested in going out in a sport fishing charter boat. I get motion sickness quite badly, and I want to be fully in charge of when I call it quits and head back to dry land. I do NOT want to be held hostage on boat for hours...

Boat fishing in the sea is the most great fishing I have ever practiced. I love the sea and I am very sorry that I live 250 km from it. I have a friend who has a house and a small boat in a small village on the Black Sea and several times a year I am his guest for fishing. We had a few adventures in the sea, but I've never regretted a single second into the sea.
I also suffered from seasickness before. Over time, I got used to it, and now the swaying of the waves is pleasant to me. In the beginning I used some pills - Dimenhydrinate. The only thing that helps, in my opinion. The problem is that it acts in some way on the vestibular apparatus and after 2-3 tablets, stepping on land you have the feeling that the ground is slightly agitated. Here you have it too:
https://www.amazon.com/Compare-Dramamin ... B000BOADG6
And to see this the Great White or a whale from a boat is my biggest dream!

[Quick Steel]

Third photo down: Is that a dolphin or a shark? Great photos. Thanks.

[Eustace]

Third photo down: Is that a dolphin or a shark? Great photos. Thanks.

Bottlenose dolphin. The amazing creature!
Whenever they show up, they scatter the fish, but the view is amazing! Usually I hear the sounds they make when they exhale, and then I see them. They are very difficult to photograph.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottlenose_dolphin

[Colonel26]

Very cool pics Eustace!

[Colonel26]

Not from experience but I have read that possums have exceptionally filthy mouths. If man or beast gets bitten by one, prompt treatment is advised.

Sounds reasonable to me. Possums are scavengers. Their diet consists mostly of carrion and rotting vegetation.

Ken

And ticks. That’s about their only redeeming quality.

[cudgee]

When i was in New Zealand years ago, some locals took me out spotlighting for possums. Possum hunting is very popular over there, and most kids start out learning to hunt shooting possums and rabbits. They get money for their pelts, and they are good eating. I did not think i would like it, but it was nice.

[Mumbleypeg]

I’ve heard possum and sweet taters is pretty good. Haven’t tried eating possum or raccoon myself. I have had nutria (and raw horse ) though and it was surprisingly good, so I’d try them if offered. But I’m not gonna go out of my way to do so.

Ken

[bighomer]

I've posted about this before I think, my sister's husband's father would catch possums live and put them in the smokehouse and grain feed them for 4 weeks, then fix them with sweet taters and fixings, mighty fine grub imo. He love to fix wild game, he ran a grade a dairy and had two big old ponds, he'd gig and I've never had frog legs anywhere that matched what he put on the table, same with ba-b-cued .

[Colonel26]

I’ve heard of the old timers catching a possum and keeping it under a wash tub in the yard for a week or so and feeding it on shelled corn to “clean ‘em out”. Then like Big Homer and Ken have said, cooking them with sweet taters. When I was a kid some of the old men told me that was a normal Sunday after church dinner during the depression.

I remember more than one old man told me that they killed skunks, skinned them, cooked up the meat and used the grease as a chest rub for colds and such. One old man said him and his buddies had been out playing hard and cane busting through the old screen door of the house looking for something to eat and there in the table was a platter of fried meat. Well, as boys are want to do they lit in to it and demolished the whole plate of fried critter.

About the time the last boy swallowed the last bite momma came in the room and asked, “where’s that platter of polecat go?” He told me that all got that door at the same time gagging and hacking. He said they stuck their fingers, sticks, anything they could think of down their throats to get that skunk to come back up, but no luck.

I asked him if it was any good and he said while they were eating it it was real good. But even they learned what it was I don’t think it set very well in their stomachs! lol

[cudgee]

I’ve heard of the old timers catching a possum and keeping it under a wash tub in the yard for a week or so and feeding it on shelled corn to “clean ‘em out”. Then like Big Homer and Ken have said, cooking them with sweet taters. When I was a kid some of the old men told me that was a normal Sunday after church dinner during the depression.

I remember more than one old man told me that they killed skunks, skinned them, cooked up the meat and used the grease as a chest rub for colds and such. One old man said him and his buddies had been out playing hard and cane busting through the old screen door of the house looking for something to eat and there in the table was a platter of fried meat. Well, as boys are want to do they lit in to it and demolished the whole plate of fried critter.

About the time the last boy swallowed the last bite momma came in the room and asked, “where’s that platter of polecat go?” He told me that all got that door at the same time gagging and hacking. He said they stuck their fingers, sticks, anything they could think of down their throats to get that skunk to come back up, but no luck.

I asked him if it was any good and he said while they were eating it it was real good. But even they learned what it was I don’t think it set very well in their stomachs! lol

Sometimes it is better not to know.

[TwoFlowersLuggage]

You guys would eat opossum, but you give me cr@p for eating sushi???

[Mumbleypeg]

You guys would eat opossum, but you give me cr@p for eating sushi???

Not me. I like sushi. But I prefer sashimi. Sushi has too much rice.

Ken

[Waukonda]

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You guys would eat opossum, but you give me cr@p for eating sushi???

[peanut740]

You guys would eat opossum, but you give me cr@p for eating sushi???

I wouldn't eat either! But I ain't never been THAT hungrey also.

[cudgee]

You guys would eat opossum, but you give me cr@p for eating sushi???

I wouldn't eat either! But I ain't never been THAT hungrey also.

Rodger, it was not my first preference and i would have passed if i could have, but i was a guest in another country, and was told that is was an honor to be asked to go out hunting with the people that i had got to know. I had no idea that at the end of the hunt they were going to cook it, so i felt obliged to eat it, rather sheepishly at first i must admit. But i have eaten a lot worse things. And it shows how if you know what you are doing, you can live off the land.

[Quick Steel]

My worst was puppy dog stew.

[Colonel26]

You guys would eat opossum, but you give me cr@p for eating sushi???

I wouldn't eat either! But I ain't never been THAT hungrey also.

I’m with you. No possum and no eating bait. At least not at this point. Who knows what 2021 will bring.

[doglegg]

My worst was puppy dog stew.

Vietnam?

[Quick Steel]

Yes. As an advisor I had to maintain the social amenities. Duck's blood was a lesser challenge.

[Grump01]

My worst was puppy dog stew.

Vietnam?

While in Nam, one off day off post with buddies and girls that worked in EM club we had chicken and noodles supposedly. Admit we were not sober then.
Always have wondered a little over the years if it was really chicken ? ? ?

[doglegg]

My worst was puppy dog stew.

Vietnam?

While in Nam, one off day off post with buddies and girls that worked in EM club we had chicken and noodles supposedly. Admit we were not sober then.
Always have wondered a little over the years if it was really chicken ? ? ?

[bighomer]

I ate some stuff over there that I wonder about to this day , In Lai Khe a little ma*ma-san would cook you a piece of meat, supposedly steak, French fries and a salad, she also made salami and cold cuts on fresh French bread that was baked in her little earthen oven she would wipe the ashes off the bread and and pile on the fresh lettuce, onions and such, it was a mighty fine hoagie. With a couple slightly cooled ba muoi ba's/ 33 exports it was extra fine.. Just don't think about what they used for their organically raised veggies.

[treefarmer]

My worst was puppy dog stew.

Garry, your comment reminded me of my old uncle. As a youngster I was taught children were to be seen not heard. On one of those occasions when I was actually listening, there was a conversation about eating unusual meats. Any how, it came down to ol' Unkie asking if anyone had ever eaten fox? He then added it tastes a lot like dog. I hadn't thought of that in years!

The lowly possum is much esteemed in a small town between us and Panama City. The town of Wausau, Florida has a large statue of a possum to commemorate it for sustaining the area during the depression years. The Opossum is fondly referred to as a "sand hill chicken". That community holds an annual Possum Festival each year, the 1st Saturday of August. The same old uncle I mentioned earlier used to catch possums and put them in a chicken brooder and fatten them and sell them to certain folks.

The most interesting "unusual meat" I ever had was bobcat. We had a feller on our maintenance crew that was quite an interesting man. He was about as wide as he was tall, wore bib overalls and was a furniture grade carpenter, he did good wood work. One morning he showed up at the shop with a big pot in his hands and was fussing about his guineas escaping , etc. He made the statement, "The only way to catch a guinea was to shoot it. If y'all are around at dinner time I'm going to make some big cat head biscuits." Most of the crew came to the shop for lunch expecting guinea stew rather than going to a restaurant. Right before we were to eat, this ol' boy grabbed my arm and said,"Boss man, don't bail out on me 'cause this ain't guinea stew!" It smelled good, looked good, a white gravy with little fancy cubed up meat and vegetables. He then told me it was the back-strap of a bobcat. So I said okay, not a problem. We said grace, everybody got a bowl full and a biscuit and was enjoying the guinea stew until a little feller that was raised down where Pine log Creek and the Choctawhatchee River come together. He said,"We ate a lot of guineas when I was a youngun' and the meat was a lot darker than this." The ol' boy who was doing the cookin' said, "Who said anything about guinea stew?" Several bowls were quickly pushed toward the center of the work table we used to eat on. He had fooled the crew by just making a comment that led us to believe he had a guinea in the pot! He told us how the bobcat had tried to catch his guineas and when he was skinning the bobcat he noticed how good the back-straps looked so he cubed them up,browned them and made a delicious stew. His wife is sweet little Filipino lady, in her accent she told us several times, "You no eat anything he brings up here!" He brought coon hash and he also made a coon and possum hash that was very tasty. We used to have some good dinners at the shop, fried venison or fried fish and quite often we would invite the big bosses from the district office. They bragged on the venison, little did they know it sometimes was road kill!

Personally, in addition to the things mentioned above, we have eaten armadillo, rattlesnake, Cattle egret, gator, mudfish (bowfin), buffalo and probaly some other things I can't remember. One year during a outdoor facilities inspection, I went to lunch with the inspector, he was from India. We ate at a local burger place and he ordered a bun with all the trimmings without the meat. This led to an interesting discussion of our religious views. He looked at me and grinned when I told him, "I'm a Southern Baptist and I'll eat anything that don't eat me first!"

When you go to "recolletin' , they say you're gettin' old!
Treefarmer

[Eustace]

I have eaten cat, snakes, turtle, frogs, snails, raw mussels. Nothing special, except for breaded frog legs, which are great.
In Bulgaria, the classics are beef, pork and lamb inwards - stomach, intestines, liver, heart, kidneys, brain ... Delicacy!
I know a pub where they make amazing soup with stomach and shank, seasoned with garlic, vinegar and chili pepper. After eating, your mouth burns and you can kill someone with your breath, but you feel wonderful.