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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 109030" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Opossums are not pretty. Ours are. Ours don't hiss, either, they just look at you with their big shoe-button eyes and steal the fruit off the trees... wild ones will eat from your fingers. We put out old fruit for them instead of just chucking it into the compost bins. You hear them getting excited - a horrible sound, probably a lot like the hissing of your ones, but purely out of excitement and not anger.</p><p></p><p>Mind you, husband disturbed one sleeping in mother in law's garage, I think that one hissed at him until he put the picnic basket back on the shelf and tiptoed away.</p><p></p><p>In the evening we can walk outside and look up to see a quivering nose and big eyes looking down at us, as if asking for a piece of mango. They love mango.</p><p></p><p>On TV yesterday afternoon was a short segment featuring an Aboriginal gourmet chef, cooking up a meal using bush tucker. We have some interesting native foods which the Western world is only just discovering. Lemon myrtle is fairly well known, but aniseed myrtle? Bush tomatoes, finger limes, saltbush - this bloke cooked up a delectable series of small pies which he said were much more Australian than the well-known variety. He then took his wares down to Garden Island on the shores of Sydney Harbour, to Harry's Café de Wheels (famous for providing meat pies to the sailors of all nations, since WWI). They liked his pies very much - even after he told them he'd used possum.</p><p></p><p>Only Aboriginal people are permitted to hunt possum, so it's not likely to catch on here. Should go down a treat in New Zealand, though. Our possums are a pest over there, they have more possums than sheep. And more sheep than people. Big problems. Bring on the Kiwi possum pie and do your bit for the environment!</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 109030, member: 1991"] Opossums are not pretty. Ours are. Ours don't hiss, either, they just look at you with their big shoe-button eyes and steal the fruit off the trees... wild ones will eat from your fingers. We put out old fruit for them instead of just chucking it into the compost bins. You hear them getting excited - a horrible sound, probably a lot like the hissing of your ones, but purely out of excitement and not anger. Mind you, husband disturbed one sleeping in mother in law's garage, I think that one hissed at him until he put the picnic basket back on the shelf and tiptoed away. In the evening we can walk outside and look up to see a quivering nose and big eyes looking down at us, as if asking for a piece of mango. They love mango. On TV yesterday afternoon was a short segment featuring an Aboriginal gourmet chef, cooking up a meal using bush tucker. We have some interesting native foods which the Western world is only just discovering. Lemon myrtle is fairly well known, but aniseed myrtle? Bush tomatoes, finger limes, saltbush - this bloke cooked up a delectable series of small pies which he said were much more Australian than the well-known variety. He then took his wares down to Garden Island on the shores of Sydney Harbour, to Harry's Café de Wheels (famous for providing meat pies to the sailors of all nations, since WWI). They liked his pies very much - even after he told them he'd used possum. Only Aboriginal people are permitted to hunt possum, so it's not likely to catch on here. Should go down a treat in New Zealand, though. Our possums are a pest over there, they have more possums than sheep. And more sheep than people. Big problems. Bring on the Kiwi possum pie and do your bit for the environment! Marg [/QUOTE]
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