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  • From: "Mark & Helen Angermayer" <hangermayer@isp.com>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Poke greens
  • Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 19:25:18 -0500

Joe,

Used to live in AR and some folks thought the stuff was pretty good. Of
course you wouldn't want to eat it raw.

The some of the lyrics from the classic song describe Poke pretty well,

"If some of ya'll never been down South too much...
I'm gonna tell you a little bit about this,
So that you'll understand what I'm talking about
Down there we have a plant
That grows out in the woods and the fields,
Looks somethin' like a turnip green.
Everybody calls it Poke salad. Poke 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."

And these verses describe some of the women I've dated:

"Poke salad Annie, poke salad Annie
Everybody said it was a shame
Cause her mama was working on the chain-gang
(A mean, vicious woman)

Poke salad Annie, 'gators got you granny
Everybody said it was a shame
'Cause her mama was aworkin' on the chain-gang
(a wretched, spiteful, straight-razor totin' woman)

Just kidding,

Mark
KS
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe and Ellen Hecksel" <>
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 6:19 PM
Subject: [NAFEX] Poke greens


> Hello all:
>
> Seems like I read that poke greens contain a carcinogen. Can anybody
> substantiate or refute?
>
> We have a pretty good crop of them and I want to try them, but not if
> they have been linked to a significant increase in the risk of cancer.
>
> On another note, we have a wild turkey nesting in the vineyard. Also,
> something has been browsing the top 8" of the nettle shoots. I suspect
> deer. They are either very, very hungry to risk the sting, or they have
> some way of neutralizing them. Always something new to observe and
> marvel over.
>
> -Joe
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