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To: bgill

Another item: Polk Greens. We have poke greens that grown up to 6 foot tall around one of our walnut trees. Hubby and his family love poke salad and stir fried poke with bacon grease and onions.


39 posted on 10/18/2013 1:53:41 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: greeneyes

—Hubby and his family love poke salad and stir fried poke with bacon grease and onions.—

Your hubby sounds like a southern guy.


45 posted on 10/18/2013 2:07:03 PM PDT by rightly_dividing (Phil. 4:13)
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To: greeneyes

Duh, polk greens. Silly me, I had forgotten that is what was grown there when I was little. Thanks for that whop up side the head. I’ll dedicate that whole area to various greens.

Some of you all never been down South too much
I’m gonna tell you a little story
So you’ll understand where I’m talking about
Down there, we have a plant that grows out in the woods and the fields
And it looks some like a turnip green
Everybody calls it Polk salad, now, that’s Polk salad
Used to know a girl that lived down there and
She’d go out in the evenings and pick a mess of it
Carry it home and cook it for supper
‘Cause that’s about all they had to eat
But they did all right


59 posted on 10/18/2013 2:33:57 PM PDT by bgill (This reply was mined before it was posted.)
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To: greeneyes

I thought polk greens weren’t tasty unless they were young. You use the 6 foot tall plants?


263 posted on 10/24/2013 3:33:43 AM PDT by Silentgypsy (the seed spawn of zor-ketthraa!.)
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