[reformedliberal]

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)

[bgill]

You are correct. Like “ice box” and “refrigerator”, I flip-flop between “polk sallet” and “polk salad” but just “salad” for lettuces and a generic “greens” for anything cooked.

“Coke” is the generic for all carbonated beverages. "Pecan" is pronounced "puh-con" rather than "pee-can" which is the empty coffee can one takes on long car trips.