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REDIRECT ALERT! (Scroll down past this mess if you're trying to read an archived post. Thanks. No, really, thanks.)

Due to my inability to control my temper and complacently accept continued silliness with not-quite-as-reliable-as-it-ought-to-be Blogger/Blogspot, your beloved Possumblog will now waddle across the Information Dirt Road and park its prehensile tail at http://possumblog.mu.nu.

This site will remain in place as a backup in case Munuvia gets hit by a bus or something, but I don't think they have as much trouble with this as some places do. ::cough::blogspot::cough:: So click here and adjust your links. I apologize for the inconvenience, but it's one of those things.

Wednesday, January 29, 2003

We Get Letters! Stacks and Stacks of Letters!

From the ever mysterious Steevil, a letter about vittles, inspired by the earlier post on tasty marsupials:

Here in Baltimore, the Northeast's southernmost city or else the South's northernmost city, you can supposedly find possum, raccoon and muskrat for sale at some of the stalls in the downtown markets. I've only seen muskrat at the market, myself, and haven't tried eating one.

A Baltimore joke is that on the Eastern Shore of MD, 'Surf and Turf' means a soft crab and a muskrat.

Now, before all you Oyster Staters rise up and start sending me e-mail--Steevil said that, not me. And his statement is borne out by things like this article, in which a dish called Nutria Fettucini just sets the tastebuds atingle.

As for whether Balmer is Southern, do waitresses look at you funny when you say you want sweet tea with your nutria? If they don't know what you're talking about, you are above the Sweet Tea Line (a much more reliable predicter of Southernosity than the Mason-Dixon), and no longer in the South.

posted by Terry at 2:24:00 PM

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