"Peter Aitken" > wrote in message
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> "Janet Bostwick" > wrote in message
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>> I've never had collards. Is there anything they taste sorta like? Beet
>> greens? Chard?
>> Janet
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> Green newspaper.
>
> A lot of soul food is the result of necessity. People did the best they
> could with what they had, the result of poverty and discrimination. I have
> the greatest respect for their grit and determination, but there's only so
> much you can do with some ingredients.
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> Peter Aitken
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Green newspaper, I don't think I've ever tried that either. Seriously
though, I can remember my mother pointing out plants that she grew up with
as a child that we wouldn't eat now, but apparently was either as you say a
direct result of necessity on the Minnesota farm in the early 1900's or was
a tradition brought here by her German parents. Horseradish leaves was one
and another plant that I know as Shepherd's Purse. It's a succulent
low-growing 'weed' to me. Dandelion greens and some other things I can't
recall now.
Janet