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Skriven 2007-11-27 16:31:57 av Glen Jamieson
     Kommentar till en text av Carol Shenkenberger
Ärende: DULLES THOUGHT 71127
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 -=> Quoting Carol Shenkenberger to Glen Jamieson <=-

 CS> Ohh, that would be cool.  Dingotes anyone?
 GJ> Or "coyogoes" has a nice ring to it.  :)
 
 CS> I wonder which type of howl they would have?
 
 GJ> The dingo has a rather high and penetrating howl.  Probably much the
 GJ> same.  In fact, as dingoes were brought into Australia by migrants via
 GJ> SE Asia about 8000 years ago they may be related to coyotes, which
 GJ> were also probably introduced to America by the first settlers from
 GJ> Africa via East Asia at about that time.

 CS> Really?  I thought they'd always been here (Coyotes).

I checked with Grolier, and apparently the dog family was established
in America long before the humans.  It was the other way in Australia.
 
 GJ> Jim has written of large herds...
 CS> They still are pretty big.  Some types are not doing as well, but
 CS> others seem stable I gather.

 CS> For buffalo, they have to keep the herds in check now.  Wild herds of
 CS> them sadly
 CS> do not fit the places here anymore.  They'd take over too fast and be
 CS> dangerous.

As long as they taste good, there is a place for them.
 
 GJ> South America and Australia and Antarctica were once joined, as the
 GJ> continent of Gondwanaland, and marsupials proliferated throughout.

 CS> Gondwanaland, after Pangea broke up right?
 
 GJ> Yes, I think that was how it went.  A bit before my time.

 CS> But not by much eh?  (snicker, never leave me an opening THAT obvious
 CS> Dear!) 

You don't miss a chance!  (g)

 CS> populous. Possums (Opossums) are quite common in the USA.
 
 GJ> They would be the most successful of the marsupials.  My eldest
 GJ> daughter used to have a pet one, which used to sit on her head,

 CS> Possums are actally kinda cute when young but once they get bigger,
 CS> they look and act like furry tree climbing armadillos.

Here, the Brush-tail is smaller and cuter than the Ring-tail.  They can
be tamed, but as they normally live in trees, they are impossible to
toilet train.  This characteristic resulted in my daughter eventually
moving her possum from her bedroom back to the trees in the park.

 CS> When I lived in San Diego, a possum family latched on to the fact that
 CS> we had an outdoor kitty feeder dish.  Momma and baby would come up
 CS> every night at (as I recall) 3am for their feed.  Man they are LOUD
 CS> crunchers!  First time they  did it, we went to the door to see what
 CS> the heck it was crunching out there and 
 CS> scared the be-jesus out of both of us <g>.  We put more food in the

I have a friend who on one very hot Summer's night decided to sleep on
a blanket in her back garden.  Part way through the night, a possum
started chomping on a fallen apple near her head, the noise of which
woke her up suddenly, to see big eyes close to her face.  She screamed,
which scared the poor possum.  Her daughter, inside the house, woke up,
but then (as she said to her mother, later) realised it was only her
mother screaming in the garden, so turned over and went back to sleep.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.05
 
      Title: ALMA'S RECIPE FOR 'POSSUM
 Categories: Meats, Game, Southern
      Yield: 6 Servings
 
    1/2 c  Lime
      1 g  Water
      1 c  Salt
      1    Red pepper pod
      1    Possum
 
  Put 1/2 cup lime in about 1 gallon of boiling water and scald
  quickly, and pull off hair while hot.  Scrape well--remove feet,
  tail, and entrails--like you would a pig.  Cut off ears, remove eyes
  and head if desired.  Pour hot water over it and clean thoroughly.
  
  Put one cup salt in sufficient cold water to cover possum, add 1 pod
  red pepper and let stand overnight.  In the morning remove salt water
  and pour boiling water over it.  Cook in enough boiling water to boil
  up over possum but not enough to cover.  Cook until skin can be
  pierced with a fork easily, and let stand in water until ready for
  baking.
  
  When ready to bake, place possum in pan with skin side up.  Bake in a
  moderate oven until crisp and brown.  If fire is too hot, skin will
  blister and burn.
  
  Carve possum and surround with potatoes (sliced or quartered) which
  have been previously baked.
  
     1928    DULL, Mrs. S.R.
                                 Southern Cooking
                                 Grosset & Dunlap
                                 New York Submitted by John Hartman
  Indianapolis, IN hartman@indy.net
 
MMMMM
 

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