Billy Possum
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The Billy Possum
The opossum was roasted on a bed of sweet potatoes and then presented whole on a platter. The one that they brought to taft's table weighed 18 pounds. Soon billy possums were in toy stores from new york to san francisco, because real opossums weren't actually that common in cities at the time.
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