Beet Red

[Postul8]

I reckon AIA ought to try fresh asparagus, if he/she is so amazed at bodily treatment of vegetables.

[Hebe]

Great idea!

[Auzgurl]

My late father used to eat katsup sandwiches all the time, just bread and katsup.

My Dad was brought up then on bread and dripping, which we all now love. Freaks the health nuts right out.

It sure does Hebe..my parents used to love this too..I occasionally have fried bread ( but never in dripping) and its something I consider a treat.

[TomB]

You can beat an egg but ......



Seriously, beets are great and no aussie burger is complete without some.

[AiA in Atlanta]

Beetroot does taste of dirt, but it growns on you (if not in you) . I suppose the dark red indicated anti-oxidants, the current health darling. (Anyway, you can't have a recession burger without it.)

What are the ingredients of this recession burger?

My late father used to eat katsup sandwiches all the time, just bread and katsup.

Why? During the depression that is often all they had and developed a life long fondess for it.

It strange when you talk to people who lived through the great depression they often look back at with a strange since of fondness, as if it were the best time of their life. Certainly there was a stronger sense of community then, less empty commercial canibalism.

the talk of the great depression brings back memories of the american side of my family, all southerners who spoke of surviving on such things as corn bread and milk (eaten like cornflakes), cathead biscuits (the american sort of biscuit, not the english variety), banana and mayo sandwiches (the louisiana - cajun branch of the family still eats plain mayo sandwiches on white bread), poke salit, collard greens, grits 3 times a day ... They joked about having to eat possum and how greasy the meat is. I hope they were kidding about that one. Don't know if an Australian possum is any tastier. Has anyone heard?

[Jovial Monk]

dunno about our possum but koala from what I have heard is delicious!

[Hebe]

I've heard the same thing about possum. Fortunately I'll never know.

The mayo sandwich lives on AiA - God my arteries must be a mess. They say that Londoners on rationing in and after WWII have never been so healthy.

What's polk salit? It that what Polk Salad Annie ate?

[AiA in Atlanta]

I've heard the same thing about possum. Fortunately I'll never know.

The mayo sandwich lives on AiA - God my arteries must be a mess. They say that Londoners on rationing in and after WWII have never been so healthy.

What's polk salit? It that what Polk Salad Annie ate?

Polk salit or polk salad is the poke weed. I think I've seen it in New Zealand as well. Yeah, just like the old song ... It is well, just a weed that poor people used to eat (and some old timers still do) in the South. The berries used to be used to make ink long ago. I think it has to be boiled several times to get the toxins out. Some old black man I knew as a kid hit a possum (ya know, Australian possums are cute critters but their American cousins are just ugly) on the head and took it home to cook with polk salit which he said he could find growing in the local cemetery. It was just like Uncle Remus and Disney's Song of the South.

[Jovial Monk]

That is hilarious!

[Hebe]

And then there's polk salat the mystery green of the south. I used to eat it every spring when we lived with my grandmother. She knew how to fix them without poisoning everyone.

Young pokeweed leaves can be boiled three times to reduce the toxin, discarding the water after each boiling. The result is known as poke salit, or poke salad, and is occasionally available commercially.[1] Many authorities advise against eating pokeweed even after thrice boiling, as traces of the toxin may still remain. For many decades, poke salad has been a staple of southern U.S. cuisine, despite campaigns by doctors who believed pokeweed remained toxic even after being boiled. The lingering cultural significance of Poke salad can be found in the 1969 hit song "Polk Salad Annie," written and performed by Tony Joe White

Sounds bloody dangerous! Have you had it?