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| Oz Peta-heads Protest Possum Pie | |||
| 2004-06-28 | |||
| 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."
Rights? Sheesh, everybody wants a slice of the pie these days.
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 |
| #14 "Possums are a treasure..." There is a lake and noted recreational area in Texas called 'Possum Kingdom. Maybe she has heard of it and, being a moonbat and an uber-flake, takes it literally. |
| Posted by: Anonymous5450 2004-06-28 10:58:15 PM |
| #13 hmmm I've treasured a beaver or two in my time, but not an opossum |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-06-28 10:37:50 PM |
| #12 "Possums are a treasure..." Is there a such thing as an opossum mine? |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-06-28 10:22:52 PM |
| #11 Quana im always hear that capt cook was the original more soupial matter of fact (sigh) after many native Hawaians die of food poisoning it became clear that yep Too many soup spoil de Cook |
| Posted by: Half 2004-06-28 3:52:11 PM |
| #10 Can you say MAR-SU-PIAL? I knew you could. (That commercial still cracks me up...) |
| Posted by: Quana 2004-06-28 1:00:26 PM |
| #9 But do Iranian women give birth to them? |
| Posted by: Spot 2004-06-28 11:22:57 AM |
| #8 Street Pizza! |
| Posted by: Steve White 2004-06-28 11:17:27 AM |
| #7 Shovel-Flipped Roadside Pizza Someone owes me a keyboard for that one! |
| Posted by: JerseyMike 2004-06-28 11:16:33 AM |
| #6 Possums yep, the other white meat. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-06-28 11:12:52 AM |
| #5 Australian possums are different beasts than those big white rats we have around here. Here's one. Awwwww. |
| Posted by: Angie Schultz 2004-06-28 10:34:21 AM |
| #4 "Flat Cat Surprise"... |
| Posted by: mojo 2004-06-28 10:04:57 AM |
| #3 Beg yer pardon, but "Road Kill" isn't a dish. It's a huntin' technique. ;) |
| Posted by: BH 2004-06-28 9:57:56 AM |
| #2 Dammit, now I'm getting hungry. Where's my box of Roadkill Helper? |
| Posted by: Steve 2004-06-28 8:23:24 AM |
| #1 In south Alabama armadillos are known as "possum on the half-shell". But we don't really eat either possums or armadillos. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2004-06-28 7:30:35 AM |
