Re: Poke salad (was Re: Fried Okra)

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From: Don
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 01:45

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On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 10:11:39 GMT, suzanne47@hotmail.com (suzanne)
wrote:

>On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 23:34:29 -0500, Joseph Crowe <jcrowe@io.com>
>wrote:
>>   Polk Salad is the greens from a root vegetable similar to a turnip.
>>Poor southerners, black and white, ate Polk Salad, especially after
>>reconstruction.
>Poke Salad is the leaves of the Poke weed.  As it matures, the stalk
>turns a reddish color and the plant produces purple poke berries which
>are poisonous.  The leaves have to be parboiled or they are also
>poisonous.  Here's a web page with a picture of the plant:
><http://www.unitedstates-on-line.com/tennessee/poke.html>
>
> I was born and raised in Milan, TN.  Both of my grannies used to take
>me with them when they went out to pick a mess of poke salad.  

Suzzane...I am from Alamo.  I used to work at a church in Humboldt and
teach piano in Trenton.  Way back, when I was in high school I worked
at WKBJ-FM with Tom Neal and Bill Hayney.  I drove through Milan about
3 weeks ago when I was up there on a visit.

D*
PS.  Sometime, remind me to tell you my story about the Tastee Freeze
at Milan.

For your productivity:  http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm

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From: Don  <calldonREMOVE@earthlink.net>
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Subject: Re: Poke salad (was Re: Fried Okra)
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