Because of the picture, I knew what you wanted for Thanksgiving dessert. What about pecan pie though? It, too, is a common dessert at Thanksgiving... especially in the South.
If a 'possum becomes frightened it sometimes stops and pretends to be dead. Apparently the ones around our house are not afraid of us, because they seldom do it. They just turn and run.
All I could think of was Pigsty for Charlie Brown. Tried random P names before in case he had a proper name that I just didn't know. I don't know Charlie Brown all that well, and I thought at the end that maybe Peppermint Patty was messy as opposed to dirty... 🤷