Guest guest Posted February 9, 2005 Report Share Posted February 9, 2005 Hey Ien, > Why eat something that needs several boilings and rinsings > to be edible? A person shouldn't do it unless they want to. All foods are not easy to prepare so sometimes the only way to be able to eat something you like is to work at it. One time my ex-wife, me and my three younguns spent dang near a whole Saturday picking the meat out of a couple of bushels of Chesapeake Bay Blue Crabs and got close to 8 pounds of meat. All of our efforts combined were around 30 plus hours work. Could have bought frozen King or Snow crab for maybe $10 a pound then and $80 is cheap if compared to the time we put in .. but King and Snow isn't quite as tasty as those little Blues so it was worth it. ;-) > People used to do the same with skunk cabbage. > I never could see the point, when there is so much wild > greenery that is good as is. You ain't Suthran American .. that's why you and Martin can't understand it. Some folks down home make their own corn whiskey but there's liqueur stores all over the place. ;-) Blackberry Jam is pretty cheap in the store but folks back home still fight the briars, snakes and chiggers to pick their own and may their own jam .. same with pretty much anything home made. Tradition is hard to break even if one wants to .. which I don't. Some ethnic, regional or national foods are not easy to prepare .. and there are probably canned or frozen versions of some of them .. but some folks still take the time to do it the old way. I'll be there are foods in your neck of the woods and in Martin's that qualify in this regard. Maybe its just nostalgia but whatever it is matters not to me .. I'll continue to eat Poke Salet long as I can get it. I taught my children to like it .. and they still do. As for Martin and Poke Salet .. only thing that rascal cooks is a bologna sammich or a boiled egg and even when he boils the egg he burns the water. ;-) > Ien in the Kootenays Y'all keep smiling. :-) Butch http://www.AV-AT.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 9, 2005 Report Share Posted February 9, 2005 Actually Butch, The comment refers not to the work of rinsing and boiling, but to the health benefits. If it takes that much special prep to be edible, how good can it be for a body? This has nothing to do with the time factor! The world would be a better place if more of us spent hours finding and cleaning some food straight from Momma. I love going out after wild edibles. I have been known to spend an afternoon on hands and knees crawling through the bracken to find tiny wild strawberries. You always see the flowers all over the place and once the berries are ripe the bracken is up and they are all hidden. Not to mention the hours spent in spring washing those wonderful first muddy dandelion salads. But that is the point: all you have to do to a dandelion to make it edible is wash it! Crabs, yuuum... Ien in the Kootenays **************************** " Intelligence is like legs. Too many and you trip yourself up " ~Terry Pratchett Meet my medium intelligent face http://greatestnetworker.com/is/ien **************************** Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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