kayak...didja EVER hear of these goofy things??? (#76)
They're a southern thing I guess. People from the north (that's you Yankees!) look at me like I've gone goofy whenever I talk about them. I just remember how good they tasted straight off the plant when I was kid. Then again, we ate corn fresh off the stalk without cooking it, too, when I was a kid!
Heard of 'em? Gosh, yes.
And eaten a ton of them right out of my back yard when I was growing up. They are really good ... YUM! You don't eat the skin usually ... it's tough.
In eastern NC, they make wine out of them (look up Duplin Winery on Google ... for some reason I can't get a link to work).
And I've eaten (though never made one) a luscious grape pie made with scuppernongs. Believe it or not, the pies almost taste like chocolate pudding, though the grapes don't.