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t walgamuth · #61 08-05-2019, 11:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Diesel911

Have you eaten any Snake?

My Wife has. The favorite is to lucky enough to catch a large Python because it can feed he whole family.

no. at least not that i know of.

I ate meat in Morocco in the Marketplace which I had no clue what it was.....good though and the Moroccan round bread is great!

barry12345 · #62 08-05-2019, 01:24 PM

Maybe someone can verify or deny. I had heard there was some residual nerve action when cooking snake meat. I have never cooked or eaten snake to the best of my knowledge. As a kid when transiting Chinatown there were many odd specis of animals hung in the widows for sale.

oldsinner111 · #63 08-05-2019, 02:38 PM

no,mine did not move when cooking,frog legs do if fresh

Diesel911 · #64 08-07-2019, 02:33 AM

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Originally Posted by t walgamuth

no. at least not that i know of.

I ate meat in Morocco in the Marketplace which I had no clue what it was.....good though and the Moroccan round bread is great!

Wow my Wife want back to the Philippines after 10 years and bought food from the Street Vendor just as she used to and got the $hits for 3 days. She was no longer used to it.

I had been to the Philippines x2 and did not get sick but I was extremely careful about what I ate and drank bottled water and I bought most of my Food in a Grocery Store. Down the street for what I stayed in Manila was a Jewish Delicatessen which was a great place to get food from.

Diesel911 · #65 08-07-2019, 02:41 AM

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Originally Posted by barry12345

Maybe someone can verify or deny. I had heard there was some residual nerve action when cooking snake meat. I have never cooked or eaten snake to the best of my knowledge. As a kid when transiting Chinatown there were many odd specis of animals hung in the widows for sale.

You might have been seeing Eels.

When I was in Hong Kong and got out of the tourist area walking through the more authentic Chinese area in one of the allies was a substantial pile of Eel heads. And some places had the Eels still swimming in large buckets.

There is a few places in the US that have fresh water Eels. And in those areas they eat them.
To the bet of my knowledge you can eat the Salt Water Eels.

When my Friend cooked the Rattlesnake he cut it into small sections so he would not have seen any residual nerve action.

Diesel911 · #66 08-07-2019, 02:51 AM

I supersized a small about Cat sized Raccoon an hour ago.

It was kind of sad. It ran a short distance to the fence but then ran along below the fence one way and then turned around and ran the other way finding no easy escape.

Finally it decided to climb up a fence post which it did rather slowly and then it sort of hooked one leg over the top of the fence and turned side ways and hung there looking at me.

Several hours earlier there had been some dried cat food; less then 1/4 cup out on the plate but I don't know how much was left for it to scavenge. My Cats might have already eaten that before the Raccoon showed up. It just seemed so desperate yet clumsy trying to get away even with me not chasing it.

The Avocado Tree has no mature fruit to feed them.

t walgamuth · #67 08-07-2019, 10:17 AM

What is supersized?

Diesel911 · #68 08-07-2019, 01:59 PM

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Originally Posted by t walgamuth

What is supersized?

I guess I was hungry and instead of writing surprised I wrote supersized.

Also saw a small Possum list night.

t walgamuth · #69 08-07-2019, 02:06 PM

Oh, good. I thought you blew him up!

I never got sick from food in Morocco that I know of. Actually never in any country except the USA. I have had Salmonella poisoning a few times. Miserable.

vwnate1 · #70 08-07-2019, 09:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Diesel911

Wow my Wife want back to the Philippines after 10 years and bought food from the Street Vendor just as she used to and got the $hits for 3 days. She was no longer used to it.

I had been to the Philippines x2 and did not get sick but I was extremely careful about what I ate and drank bottled water and I bought most of my Food in a Grocery Store. Down the street for what I stayed in Manila was a Jewish Delicatessen which was a great place to get food from.

This always makes me laugh ~ Immigrants come and hear Americanos tourist horror stories and they laugh and think we're weak, then after a few years they go home to visit and nearly die......

Be wary of raccoons ~ they're cute and make good pets but are very vicious when they feel threatened and the perceived threat may be just you looking at their kits .

I've seen 25 # 'coons in my neighborhood .

t walgamuth · #71 08-07-2019, 11:24 PM

I understand coons are good pets until they reach puberty...after that they are dangerous.

Diesel911 · #72 08-10-2019, 10:44 PM

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Originally Posted by t walgamuth

I understand coons are good pets until they reach puberty...after that they are dangerous.

Sounds like Teenagers.

The little Possum was eating dried Cat food when I swung the door open and it ran off and into a net like Sun Screen (people put them up to provide shade instead of a Tarp) I had covering some stuff. I quickly had to get out of his sight because I did not want him to get caught in it and have to manually remove him from the Sun Screen.

Thankfully when I came back out it was gone.

Lance Allison · #73 08-12-2019, 12:06 AM

I found out the hard way Possums/Opossums? are nasty bastards. Fumbling around in the garage getting ready to take the trash cans out for pickup, something was making noise over by the workbench. I didn't think much of it, as the river is out my back door...but it didn't stop. It went under the workbench so I couldn't get a good look at it. Grabbed a flashlight and it looked like a huge rat! Always heard these things would play dead, right? So I put on some welding gloves thinking I would just pick it up. Wrong. It was hissing and spitting and did not want to leave. And it was certainly not playing dead. I finally threw a boot under the bench and it lumbered outside. Ugly hateful things. I'm not sure if they would prey on cats or not, but they are about the same size as a small cat.

vwnate1 · #74 08-12-2019, 09:11 AM

Calling them big rats is fairly accurate from an on hands perspective .

They'll attack and dismember live pets so be wary around them .

One climbed into a tree as my buddy was cleaning his canary's cage and grabbed the canary, ripped its wing off and began eating it as the canary screamed .

Hard to kill too ~ I had to beat one to death in my back yard once, I had a sharp edged shovel and that bastard looked like hamburger yet refused to die .

A small cat sized one is a small one, the one I killed weighted at least 25 pounds .

When I worked in Air Support, we'd fill an old Bell 204 with cages full of possums, raccoons and other trapped animals and fly them up into the canyons and set them free .

The baby possums look ever so cute but sitting right next to a caged, female and seriously pissed off/scared possum for an hour isn't much fun .

Diesel911 · #75 08-12-2019, 09:33 PM

When I looked up stuff on Possums I found out they cannot carry rabies and they eat rodents and likely anything else they can catch that creeps and crawls.

I found my old thread. Somewhere in the old thread I think I posted some vids and one has a Possum and a Raccoon and the Possum takes a little bit/nip of the Raccoon. If go t youtube you can see vids of all kinds of animals fighting to include Possums fighting other animals.
Adventures with Swamp Girl! Virginia Opossum!

There was some sort of tussle under my house and when I woke up the next morning my one part of my house smelled like Skunk.

Have smelled Skunk outside of my house several times a year but never have seen one and none of my Cats have been sprayed.

In fact My Cats seem to run away from other critters.

The other critters show up in twilight conditions or dark. An odd thing I saw was at 10 in the morning while I was walking in the neighborhood which is all houses. A smallish orange male cat walked across the street and about the time he made the Curb a Possum from the other side of the street came following behind him.

Odd to see any Possum out in the open and especially in broad daylight. They mystery is why the Possum is following the Cat? I mean are they buddies?
Another time my house stank I found something had killed a Possum under my house.

I finally bought the new vents for around the bottom of the house and blocked off the opening you can crawl under my house at to keep the critters out.