Posted on 05/18/2013 6:13:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
When rationing was introduced in January 1940, the Ministry of Food distributed various leaflets to the public. They fell into different categories: some explained new ingredients such as dried eggs, while others offered helpful guides to making the most of the rations.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
I keep hearing over and over how tasty croc or alligators are.
One thing is fer sure, the Cajun Country will never starve.
/johnny
That sounds great! I’ve had gator, but it was stewed with tomatoes, onions, celery and spices. Yum!
/johnny
That would be Gator Gumbo. Made with things you grow or catch.
I caught and ate an armadillo in San Saba once. No, I don’t want to hear about all the germs and leprosy.
Hey, maybe you know what lettuce type veggie smells and tastes like skunk. Ick, ick. I was out in the garden this morning picking some of the Ferry-Morse Mesclun mix and smelled a skunk. I picked some more and the smell stayed with me. I took the bucket into the house and still smelled it. As I was rinsing the leaves, one smelled awful! It was a spikey leaf sort of like a thistle. It was a young leaf, about two inches in diameter. I’ve looked on the internet for a picture of something similar but no luck. I went through the names on the seed package (arugula, endive red kale, red and green romaine, salad bowl and lolla rossa lettuce) but still no luck. I tasted it and it tasted like it smelled - like skunk. No, the leaf is nothing like a skunk cabbage. I’m not a botanist so the best I can do in describing the leaf is picture the palm of a hand and fingers with the fingers having spikes on them like thistles do but not the fuzzy stuff. I was thinking maybe an endive but I’ve never known them to smell like skunk.
Sure, I have tons of weeds but I haven’t seen or smelled this thing before so chances are it came in the mesclun seed packet. I may have to throw out those packets and cross Ferry-Morse off my list because it’s really nasty.
Anyone know what it might be?
I NEVER use Fairy-Sores for seeds. They are trash and they don't make their crap right when you complain.
At least Burpee will replace on a phone call.
/johnny
Problem I have with armadillo is the grease. Lots and lots of grease that goes rancid quickly.
/johnny
“Anyone know what it might be?”
could it be marijuana? i did an internet search and found:
“One particular strain of marijuana does have a smell that is very similar to the smell that the skunk emits when it feels threatened and sprays. I have only once for a short time seen this particular strain and that was in 1990-91 in California. Back then we just called it KGB or Killer Green Bud.”
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_does_marijuana_smell_like_skunk
Nope. That’s not it. Mine is more of a rounder leaf with spikes rather than long with spikes.
I had asked lil miss to bring me in two of the cheap mesclun Walmart sells for like a quarter or fifty cents and was VERY specific about it. Being an oh so very smart teen, she didn’t listen and brought in this stuff that’s $1.50 and 7 packets of it. We’re not liking the varieties in the mix at all. It’s bitter. I hate to throw things out but I’m still tasting skunk.
/johnny
I have 1st & 2nd cousins in England, and know first or second hand some of the stories...also had relatives who were US military in England during this time.
I know of the English, under rationing, and very limited food wise, entertaining our folks (military) and serving the only egg in the house to the guest. Etc...
Other, not related to food, but a cousin and her husband were in their back garden (yard) when a German fighter came through the clouds, saw them, but did not fire his machine guns.
The British were in the war somewhat longer than our troops were, and they were in the forefront. Thank you for this post.
Rationing in England was absolutely necessary, in my opinion...rationing here as imposed by FDR, was not necessary, but was used to make us ‘feel the war’.
YIKES! No, I don't think so. Not that I'm familiar with mj (no, really, I'm not) but mj doesn't have a "palm" part which then goes out as "fingers" or at least I don't see any pics that show that. From the internet pics of mj, it's just the "fingers" part. Is that right? It's a young plant and is growing close to the ground so I dunno. I don't know how many are growing since it's a mixture of lettuces and this was under the taller salad leaf varieties. Either way, this thing is coming out of my garden and the F-M packages are going into the garbage first thing tomorrow. In fact, the whole bed is getting dug up.
Oh, great, now you've done it. The IRS and hussein's spooks are probably snooping around and already have a DEA SWAT team headed this direction! If I suddenly disappear, y'all will know what happened. Hey, I swear, I didn't know!!! But, seriously, that thing stinks so much that I want the whole mixture out of there and I'll plant something else.
Ha, reminds me of a trial where I was on the jury as foreman. Seems the young fellow had been caught with funny mushrooms in his jacket pocket. Seems he also had a ‘good’ explanation of why he did not know there were there...and other circumstances substanciated that.
In the course of deliberations (this was in Nebraska) and in an attempt to sway the jury to not convict, I talked about ditch weed, and how we all, when we were younger may have tried smoking it...
...well, seems some of the would be holdouts on the jury ‘understood’ that and after further deliberation, we found the young fellow ‘not guilty’. Some would say we exercised our right of ‘jury nullification’. (the prosecuting attorney was NOT pleased)...
Oh, great! Now there’s two of you thinking it’s pot!!! No, looked up pics of ditchweed and this isn’t it. Mine doesn’t have stalks of leaves on top of leaves like the pics show. I haven’t heard of any stupid neighbor growing pot. Still, the whole bed is getting dug up first thing tomorrow.
Lawdy, I’m never going to get to sleep tonight!
I already dropped a dime on you and told 'em where to find your dog.
Friends are like that. ;)
/johnny
I want you on my jury.
Don’t make me play the no pants card, lol.
The orange hybrid cherry tomato variety “Sungold” has leaves with an interesting smell. Not the smell you’d normally associate with a tomato plant.
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