Polk Salad Annie
Some of you all never been down South too much...
I’ 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 something 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 to 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.
Tony Joe White www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRF24LY5pvw
When I was a kid the local radio station in RI would play this all the time. Loved it!
I’m a pedant.
It’s poke sallet in the original Olde English. Sallet was just a mass or *mess* of young wild greens. Changed to salad somewhere along the way, but it is young poke leaves, preferably boiled up with some fatback and a bit of molasses.
I’m a bit of a foodie, too. (g)