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Oz Peta-heads Protest Possum Pie
Possum pies and other meals made from the ubiquitous Kiwi pest have Australian animal-rights activists in a stew.
The American version of this varmint is best known as a dietary staple of TV’s Clampett clan in the surreal 1960s sitcom, the Beverly Hillbillies.
Possum dishes such as Road Kill, Headlight Delight Pie, Guess That Mess and Shovel-Flipped Roadside Pizza have incensed Animal Liberation Victoria (ALV). President Patty Mark said New Zealanders’ treatment of possums was an outrage and the culinary names "make your stomach turn".
The names are a bit unappetizing, but urbanized Oz-niks might not appreciate the Kiwi sense of humor. BTW, I remember a prize-winning chili recipe called "This Dog’s Brother."
Is there a requirement that Aussies eat it? If not, what's the beef? (Or possum, as it were...)
"Possums are a treasure and ALV would see them as individuals who have their own rights."
Rights? Sheesh, everybody wants a slice of the pie these days.
They still have rights after they've sucked a bumper?
The Kiwi behind the culinary treats, Peter Salter, dismissed the group’s comments.
"Piss off. We're havin' dinner here!"
After cooking up the pests for customers at his pub in Pukekura, south Westland, for several years he recently started selling his possum pies at a Nelson cafe. He hopes they will soon be available in Christchurch, Queenstown and Auckland.
Pukekura? How appropriate.
Salter said some Australians "haven’t got a clue" about the damage caused by the animals here.
But do they have a connection to Al Qaeda?
"They might be cute and fluffy over in Australia but they are certainly not cute and fluffy here.
I don’t think the critters are cute anywhere, except perhaps in one of Pete’s pies.
Our Texas counterpart is the armadillo, naturally much bigger and tougher. It is also a revered national symbol and therefore exempt from culinary exploitation. Besides, you would have to be damned hungry before you’d try to eat an armadillo. Starving buzzards can manage it, but that’s about the limit.
"They (Australians) seem to think that we are a country where we have retirement farms for sheep: they just live in cuckoo land."
They retire a lot of sheep in NZ.
Recycling expired pests to supplement the local food supply seems like a good environmental strategy to me. I understand that the Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler has posted several good hippy recipes recently, and gamy Morlock buttocks are regular fare at LGF (Morlocks, from HG Wells’ The Time Machine, are the brutish underground denizens of Indymedia and similar hives of villainy and scum).
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2004-06-28
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