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 😂.

We ate it in Va. too. Poke salad greens.

Thanks for explaining! Remember that old song....Polk Salad Annie?

I was taught that Eaten early in the spring, the poisons haven’t developed yet. I believe It is a blood purifier.

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

You've got to wonder how they ever came up with the way to make it edible.😊

When picking it, true Southerners put it in a poke.

So cool! We don’t have anything like that in California, but that’s amazing that you know exactly what to look for! 😆

My mom use to cook it when I was a child. She also put chopped onions. Blessings

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.

Poke salad is what kept many families fed during the Great Depression.

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! ❤😊

It’s good in Indiana too! Bonus - smash the berries and put the juice on your face to play cowboys and Indians.

LOL...I was LITERALLY gonna say, "WHY NOT JUST SPINACH?!!!!"

Elvis Presley made a song called Poke Sallett! And in the song he talks about it.

Yes, Polk Sallet is good mixed in collard greens. Yummm❤

You need to come to Harlan to the Poke Sallet festival!

If my mom made it I would eat it

Yum

Where are you from, girl? It must be from around here. 😂

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...

Born and raised in TN and never heard of this

Maybe without the eggs!! 😉

Been eating it since I was a little girl