OK Dane-translation from English to furrin yankee talk:
Poke sallet: cooked greens from young sprouts of the pokeberry plant (Phytolacca americana). Stinks to high heaven when you're cooking it. Tastes horrible. Many people love it.
Ramps: Wild plant in the onion family that grows here in the mountains and even up north (Allium tricoccum) Very strong flavored and scented, very delicious, traditional spring food here. There ain't nothin' better than a big mess o' speckled trout, cornbread, fried taters and ramps.
Branch Lettuce: Another wild plant (Saxifraga micranthidifolia). Grows in wet places in the woods- seeps and little branches (what y'all would call a brook). Good eatin'.
Creasy greens: More wild greens. Plant in the mustard family that grows in old fields and farmland (Barbarea ssp.)
Souse meat and livermush: Nasty concoctions made from used pig parts. Souse meat is made from ground pig head parts, seasoned up. Livermush is known elsewhere as "liver pudding". Tastes about like it sounds.
Blackstrap 'lasses (aka "long sweetnin' "): Homemade molasses. Has to be made by feeding sugar cane stalks into a molasses mill that is powered by a mule, preferably an old and grumpy, stubborn, flatulent one named "Bill". Good stuff.
PS- RC co-colers and moon pies are nature's perfect food. Any carbonated beverage here is a co-coler, regardless of brand or flavor, as in: "Billy Ray, what kinda co-coler you want to drank with yore catfish and creasies?"
