More Rhubarb
When we were kids we’d eat rhubarb right out of the garden. We tried to pull only the small, tender, bright red stalks, which we’d dip into sugar. The large green petioles were great but stringy and sour. I can still the look on a kid’s face in reation to bite of that sour stuff. Kids will eat almost anything! (At least boys will.) We lilved near a sugar factory and the trucks full of beets would line up in front of our hous. We’d hook ‘em down wilth a stilck, peel ‘em with our jack-knives and eat ‘em raw. Another thing we found to be good were what we called “green cheeses”. Tiny little pumpkin-like green things growing in the lawn. You had to get down and look close to find them and it would take a million of ‘em to make a handfull. Some more stuff was elderberries, wild grapes and sweet purslane. Oh yeah! Boys are real foragers.
Huggz all,
Jerry