Possum Pie was Southern Living's most popular Thanksgiving pie in 2023. It features a pecan shortbread crust, cream cheese filling, chocolate pudding, and lots of fluffy whipped cream. When I wrote about White House Thanksgiving menus earlier this week, lots of readers noted the detail about President Taft having served a giant possum along with a turkey. What I didn’t... Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 1937 menu included curled celery with toast fingers and olives. And in 1909, William Howard Taft and his dining companions dug into a 26-pound Georgia possum. Adrienne LaFrance, a staff writer at The Atlantic, examined decades of Thanksgiving meals at the White House, which reveal some surprising details about the evolution of the holiday spread. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to LaFrance about the menus for presidents like Theodore Roosevelt, who dined on turtle, and William Howard Taft, who preferred possum. Another favorite was roasted opossum: At one Thanksgiving, he served a 26-pounder alongside the turkey. He was hardly a gourmand, it appears. When it came to his own dining habits, the Ohio native favored the most American of meals: hot dogs and beer. This Thanksgiving evening we spotted a Possum outside the kitchen window. Coming from Britain I had no idea they were once eaten, and that President Taft was served Possum as part of the Whitehouse Thanksgiving feast in 1909. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to LaFrance about the menus for presidents like Theodore Roosevelt, who dined on turtle, and William Howard Taft, who preferred possum. Every pet needs a name, and President Hoover’s opossum received one: It has been named ‘Billy Possum,’ and for the present is to be retained in Rebecca’s cage. Let us piece together what we can learn about President Hoover’s pet opossum. What’s In a Name? “Billy Possum” In November 1909 US president William H. Taft and family enjoyed a gargantuan Thanksgiving feast - including a 26 pound Georgian-caught possum.
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