[poke salad]
Is that Polk Salad? I never had it.
I remember Steve Landesburg doing an asparagus joke on “The Tonight Show” back in the ‘70’s.
Ah for the days of Tony Jo White. I think I saw him on “The John Byner” show - whatever it was, I seemed to remember it seemed filmed. Maybe that was just parts of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCSsVvlj6YA
It’s poke salad, both the dish and the song. Made from pokeweed. You gather the young green shoots. Once it’s grown and turned burgundy-isn, it’s poisonous. A southern wild green, used to be associated almost entirely with poor people since it could be gathered for free, like ramps or creasies.