Thursday, May 26, 2011

Afternoon interlude

Between patients today I went to talk to Dr. Pissy. He was in his office, calling his father on the speaker phone. Pissy's family lives in a fairly remote area, and I got to hear this:


Dr. Pissy: "Hi, Dad, how are you?"

Pissy Senior: "I'm working".

Dr. Pissy: "What are you working on?"

Pissy Senior: "Cleaning a 'possum."
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17 comments:

  1. SuFu PhDMay 26, 2011 at 4:35 PM

    If I grew up eating 'possum i'd be pissy too

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  2. PackerMay 26, 2011 at 5:00 PM

    There will be two more for dinner

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  3. AnonymousMay 26, 2011 at 5:32 PM

    this is why pissy moved far, far away.

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  4. Texas Pharmacy ChicaMay 26, 2011 at 5:41 PM

    Dinner or taxidermy?

    Is one really to prefer over the other?

    One you have to look at forever and one you can cover in cream of mushroom soup?

    Decisions, decisions.

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  5. thatsitMay 26, 2011 at 5:53 PM

    Yumm....

    A little Pabst Blue Ribbon with that?

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  6. pharmacy chickMay 26, 2011 at 6:13 PM

    Road Kill Cafe: you kill em, we grill em:

    Pontiac Possum: 7.95

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  7. PA HoneybeeMay 26, 2011 at 6:28 PM

    Maybe he is into taxidermy.....? Or, maybe he and Mrs. Pissy like to "live off the land" in which case I'd say they probably have a good recipe for dinner.

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  8. JulieMay 26, 2011 at 8:26 PM

    Taxidermy didn't even occur to me ...

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  9. lbparkerMay 26, 2011 at 8:44 PM

    'Possum; the other white meat!

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  10. MockingbirdMay 26, 2011 at 9:01 PM

    Yall can make jokes, but opossum is good...ifn it's artisnal.

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  11. RossMay 27, 2011 at 12:41 AM

    If your copy of the Joy of Cooking is old enough it will include instructions for preparing possum.

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  12. J-Quell'nMay 27, 2011 at 12:55 AM

    I could probably skin and stuff a possum...I've skinned and stuffed a squirrel and many a rat...never eaten them though...ick!

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  13. Officer CynicalMay 27, 2011 at 10:23 AM

    Change the order of the speakers, and the conversation gets way more interesting.

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  14. Unchained PharmacistMay 27, 2011 at 12:40 PM

    Possum is actually not that bad. Tried it after watching Andrew Zimmerman. Wouldn't eat it again, but it's not as bad as I thought.

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  15. AnonymousMay 27, 2011 at 6:22 PM

    Joy of Cooking has, besides possum, recipes for squirrel, porcupine ("Skin by hanging back legs from hooks"), raccoon (with sweet potato and apple dressing), muskrat, woodchuck, beaver (the tail is apparently the best part) and armadillo, for which the instructions are "Draw and cut free from the shell". I suspect they left out some detail there.

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  16. CMay 29, 2011 at 11:22 PM

    what does Dr.Pissy do again?

    One of my room mates way back had a Sometown Junior League Cookbook with all kinds of game recipes....there was an eel one too that involved hanging it upside down for a long time. :(

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  17. AnonymousMay 30, 2011 at 11:01 AM

    According to "Joy of Cooking", one skins an eel by hanging it from a hook and using pliers.
    In case of apocalypse, I believe "Joy of Cooking" should get me over the tough parts of cooking random animals. Including bear, which you should cook thoroughly to avoid trichinosis.
    The father of an acquaintance of mine is quite enthusiastic about scooping up and making use of deer that have been hit by cars (recently dead ones, of course; he's not stupid), and once, on seeing the usual somewhat damaged car plus dead deer, stopped, despite his truck being in the shop, and transported the deer home in the back seat of a Dodge Neon.

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So wadda you think?