I had an aunt who loved to pick poke. She was a Kentucky hillbilly, grew up in the Kentucky Appalachians during the Depression. She never boiled it three times, nor did she understand the leaves as being poisonous. She did say you have to pick it in the spring or early in the summer, and that later in the season it's not good, and that those berries that grow on it are definitely poisonous. She tended to go after the tender shoots. I also found it tastes a lot like boiled spinach -- yeccchhh! She also liked collard greens -- blehhh! I learned back in my 7-year nursing career that when cooking vegetables of any kind, you ought to cook them lightly because over doing it chases out the vitamins and electrolytes (especially Mag) that make the green leafies so healthy for you. Not sure with poke, if there's any chance of there being poison. But after three boilings it's probably safe to say you're mostly eating it for the fiber content and that "wonderful" spinach flavor 😂.
@LessJunkMoreJourney2 ай бұрын
Interesting 🤔
@Fearless-wi4ng2 ай бұрын
We ate it in Va. too. Poke salad greens.
@LessJunkMoreJourney2 ай бұрын
Awesome 👏🏻
@SandiDodson2 ай бұрын
Thanks for explaining! Remember that old song....Polk Salad Annie?
@lethiapage47672 ай бұрын
Wooo heck yes that's a great song.
@LessJunkMoreJourney2 ай бұрын
Yes I do! My mom loves Elvis!
@lennyburdick31922 ай бұрын
I was taught that Eaten early in the spring, the poisons haven’t developed yet. I believe It is a blood purifier.
@LessJunkMoreJourney2 ай бұрын
I have heard that too
@deannavalentine49762 ай бұрын
That's the way my mother fixed dandelions but she also fried bacon crisp and added that also with the eggs. She would put a small pitcher of vinegar on the table , we would put that on it to eat. Oh it was so good
@LessJunkMoreJourney2 ай бұрын
Sounds great!
@downsizingontenacres.59272 ай бұрын
You've got to wonder how they ever came up with the way to make it edible.😊
@LessJunkMoreJourney2 ай бұрын
Right? A lot of trial and error 🫣
@cmeicu22 ай бұрын
When picking it, true Southerners put it in a poke.
@LessJunkMoreJourney2 ай бұрын
Yes!
@BenMears-fd7he2 ай бұрын
So cool! We don’t have anything like that in California, but that’s amazing that you know exactly what to look for! 😆
@LessJunkMoreJourney2 ай бұрын
I think it grows all across the US if you know what to look for!
@bettyjorodgers85522 ай бұрын
My mom use to cook it when I was a child. She also put chopped onions. Blessings
@LessJunkMoreJourney2 ай бұрын
Sounds good!
@peterholthoffman6 күн бұрын
Thank you! I’ve been wondering about how this is actually done for some time so I really appreciate this video. If you could do a longer video showing identifying, gathering, and so on, that would be interesting.
@LessJunkMoreJourney5 күн бұрын
You’re welcome!
@living2ndchildhood5982 ай бұрын
Poke salad is what kept many families fed during the Great Depression.
@LessJunkMoreJourney2 ай бұрын
Makes sense!
@robing75242 ай бұрын
I quit spinach a few years ago when I found out about oxalates! Polk Weed has the same problem. Oxalates are bad for you. Potatoes are loaded with it, as well as many other veggies. I know, I’m being a bummer! Just want people to be aware. Been keto then carnivore for 5 years now. Health impacts are amazing! Love yall! ❤😊
@LessJunkMoreJourney2 ай бұрын
Thanks for the information!
@mkinder95572 ай бұрын
It’s good in Indiana too! Bonus - smash the berries and put the juice on your face to play cowboys and Indians.
@LessJunkMoreJourney2 ай бұрын
Hahaha great idea!
@RVSquaredSteve2 ай бұрын
LOL...I was LITERALLY gonna say, "WHY NOT JUST SPINACH?!!!!"
@LessJunkMoreJourney2 ай бұрын
Well, the spinach isn’t growing wild!
@karengodbold36202 ай бұрын
Elvis Presley made a song called Poke Sallett! And in the song he talks about it.
@LessJunkMoreJourney2 ай бұрын
Yes! My mom LOVES Elvis!
@deirdreneal2832 ай бұрын
Yes, Polk Sallet is good mixed in collard greens. Yummm❤
@LessJunkMoreJourney2 ай бұрын
So good!
@krissygibbs9970Ай бұрын
You need to come to Harlan to the Poke Sallet festival!
@LessJunkMoreJourneyАй бұрын
We have a Poke Sallet festival in my home town!!
@joellenowerko34292 ай бұрын
If my mom made it I would eat it
@LessJunkMoreJourney2 ай бұрын
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@bambam4x11 күн бұрын
Yum
@LessJunkMoreJourney9 күн бұрын
😋
@AlyGirlOffGrid2 ай бұрын
Where are you from, girl? It must be from around here. 😂
@LessJunkMoreJourney2 ай бұрын
Tennessee!
@lethiapage47672 ай бұрын
Woohoo poke salad Annie. Gator got her granny. ❤ To answer your question. No. No I would not. I already don't really like most greens and that's the ones that won't kill me. So...
@lethiapage47672 ай бұрын
🎸 carried it home in a tow sack.
@LessJunkMoreJourney2 ай бұрын
😂😂😂
@JaneDoe921232 ай бұрын
Born and raised in TN and never heard of this
@brian09022 ай бұрын
I guess you are from a part of TN that doesn’t eat it
@user-no1ue1yd7y2 ай бұрын
It's eaten in east Texas too, but not by me, lol.
@LessJunkMoreJourney2 ай бұрын
Where in TN? We are north central.
@JaneDoe921232 ай бұрын
@@LessJunkMoreJourney East, that's probably why. That might just be a north TN thing
@JaneDoe921232 ай бұрын
@@LessJunkMoreJourney Cuz the greens we eat are collard