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Is this something that grows by water often? Is this like pot? I haven't ever heard of it til now.

Haven't you ever heard the song, "Poke salad Annie"??? It was written and recorded originally by Tony Joe White. Elvis Presley later recorded it.

[spoken]
If some of ya'll never been down South too much...
I'm gonna tell you a little bit about this,
So that you'll understand what I'm talking about
Down there we have a plant
That grows out in the woods and the fields,
Looks somethin' like a turnip green.
Everybody calls it Poke salad. Poke salad.
Used to know a girl that lived down there and
she'd go out in the evenings and pick a mess of it...
Carry it home and cook it for supper,
'Cause that's about all they had to eat,
But they did all right.

[sung]
Down in Louisiana
Where the alligators grow so mean
There lived a girl that I swear to the world
Made the alligators look tame

Poke salad Annie, poke salad Annie
Everybody said it was a shame
Cause her mama was working on the chain-gang
(A mean, vicious woman)

Everyday 'fore supper time
She'd go down by the truck patch
And pick her a mess o' polk salad
And carry it home in a tote sack

Poke salad Annie, 'gators got you granny
Everybody said it was a shame
'Cause her mama was aworkin' on the chain-gang
(a wretched, spiteful, straight-razor totin' woman,
Lord have mercy. Pick a mess of it)

Her daddy was lazy and no count
Claimed he had a bad back
All her brothers were fit for
Was stealin' watermelons out of my truck patch


Poke salad Annie, the gators got your granny
Everybody said it was a shame
Cause her mama was a working' on the chain gang
(Sock a little polk salad to me, you know I need a mess of it)

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Originally posted by Summer Lovin:
http://www.wave3.com/Global/story.asp?S=3976447

Is this something that grows by water often? Is this like pot? I haven't ever heard of it til now.

Polk salad is like Musterd greens or spinach, and it really stinks when its being cooked. I hated going to mt grandmas cause she had it every sunday dinner! I clicked on the story but they have removed it. when I use to have to eat it I never coped a buzz but it sure didn't do much for my stomach!