Poke Weed?

[Phalex]

AKA Poke Salad. I have a few plants that are sprouting in my back yard. They're maybe 6" 8" tall right now. Anyone know how to cook it? All I know is you're supposed to change the water 3 times.

Anybody have any tips, or am I better off not trying it? I've heard it's right tasty.

 

[RWP]

Cool! I was going to start a little garden this year but haven't yet. Not too late I guess. On topic, I have no idea what in the hell Poke Weed is.

 

[Phalex]

Cool! I was going to start a little garden this year but haven't yet. Not too late I guess. On topic, I have no idea what in the hell Poke Weed is.

It's basically a weed. The root, seeds, and to a lesser extent the leaves are toxic. The Indians ate it, and I understand it's still popular down south. It's just that there's a trick to preparing it. I've heard that it's really quite tasty.

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[5StringBlues]

Gator got yer granny.

 

[Phalex]

Exactly!!

 

[FL Knifemaker]

I've seen it. I never knew anyone that ate it.

 

[5StringBlues]

I've seen it. I never knew anyone that ate it.

+1

 

[TheDarkReaver]

Does it get you high?

 

[CapnSev]

Isn't that stuff poisonous or something if it's not cooked right?

 

[Phalex]

Isn't that stuff poisonous or something if it's not cooked right?

Yeah. That's kinda why I'm curious. I don't think it does much more than give you the trots if you screw it up. It comes up every year back by my shed. I'm just kinda curious.

 

[RWP]

Sounds like the plant version of Fugu!

 

[TheDarkReaver]

Hopefully with less death though.

 

[MakiSupaStar]

Uh.. Nevermind.

 

[RWP]

Try BACON, at least that doesn't kill you right away.

 

[FL Knifemaker]

Sounds like the plant version of Fugu!

Fugu U too!

 

[FL Knifemaker]

We have an Angel Trumpet plant growing in our backyard. I've read that the juice from the flowers is a strong hallucinogen The problem is, it's also toxic and people have died from making "tea" from it. The flowers are cool looking and they grow all over the place so it's not like someone will jump the fence and die from my flowers

 

[RWP]

Fugu U too!

^^ That guy looks so proud of his fish.

 

[BassyBill]

Sounds like the plant version of Fugu!

Or Terry Pratchett's Deep Sea Blowfish (in his book "Pyramids"), which contains the poison called bloat.

Bloat is extracted from the deep sea blowfish, Singularis minutia gigantica, which
protects itself from enemies by inflating itself to many times its normal size. If taken by
humans the effect is to make every cell in the body instantaneously try to swell some 2,000 times. This is invariably fatal, and very loud.

Cooks who are qualified to prepare the fish correctly are called squishi chefs.

Teppic reached over with the little wooden fork and skewered a paper-thin sliver of white fish. The squishi chef was scrutinising him with the air of one watching a toddler on his first birthday. So, he realised, was the rest of the restaurant.

He chewed it carefully. It was salty and faintly rubbery, with a hint of sewage outfall.

'Nice?' said Chidder anxiously. Several nearby diners started to clap.

'Different,' Teppic conceded, chewing. 'What is it?'

'Deep sea blowfish,' said Chidder.

'It's all right,' he said hastily as Teppic laid down his fork meaningfully, 'it's perfectly safe
provided every bit of stomach, liver and digestive tract is removed, that's why it cost so
much, there's no such thing as a second-best blowfish chef, it's the most expensive food in the world, people write poems about it-'
'Could be a taste explosion,' muttered Teppic, getting a grip on himself. Still, it must have
been done properly, otherwise the place would now be wearing him as wallpaper.

/pratchett

 

[TheDarkReaver]

Pratchett ftw!

 

[Gard]

Pratchett ftw!

...I just finished that one ("Pyramids")...Pratchett is a comic genius.