Greens

Greens. A highly valued source of nutrition in "the old days".
One senior today told me that she decided against a mechanical valve in her heart, because she would not be able to eat her favorite greens anymore, if it was installed!
That would be poke weed.
Asked the group, what their favorites were and got these answers. It shows how varied a palate can be.

Cow parsnip ( she called it , princess flower)
Mustard greens, poke weed, turnip greens, wild onion, dandelion, miners lettuce, winter cress. Then they started talking about what could be battered and fried... green tomatoes, cattail stalks, rose petals and watermelon rind...
Miss Peggy says that down in the hollers of Kentucky where she grew up, people could find her house by the smell of food being fried and the goats on the roof. On the roof? Yep, she grew up in a sod house.