My son and I were at the lease this weekend. He wanted to find a skull, so I took him to our bone yard. I walked up on a dead pig probly about a week in the sun. There was a dillo shoulder deep in that pigs neck, having a great time! I walked up to about two feet behind him and just watch for a while. What was he eating? Bugs? Meat? Never seen them do that before.
No lie. When I was a kid we shot one and threw it on the coals of our camp fire and went to bed. In the morning one of my more "rougher" friends went to grab the tail to pull it off the fire, and the tail pull off with a lot of pretty white meat attached. He started munching on it, and said it tasted a lot like chicken. Never will forget that.....
Possum on the half shell. Makes some good BBQ. The old Lady that owned the Walking Cane Ranch where I used to hunt back in the late 60's early 70's out by Palo Pinto cooked them and rattlesnakes for us every year. I remember them tasting like chicken/pork mixed and a bit greasy but delish. She also cooked the best red beans I ever et. Cooked over an open fire in a 5 gallon cast iron pot.
Whatever we brought in she would cook it for us.
As for Leprosy, I have been in several leper colonies in Vietnam and neither myself or any of my 4th I.D. buddies ever came down with it. VC and NVA liked to hide ammo and weapon stashes in the colonies so we went in and searched the place. We never found any stashes but other units did. The people that had the disease were horribly disfigured. Pretty sure they contracted the disease from working in the rice paddies barefoot and living on the ground a lot.
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