poke salad
See also: poké salad
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
- enPR: pōk săʹləd IPA(key): /ˌpoʊk ˈsæləd/
- (Appalachian, traditional or obsolete) IPA(key): /ˌpoʊk ˈsælɪt/
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Noun edit
poke salad (countable and uncountable, plural poke salads)
- A food made from boiled pokeweed leaves, which are poisonous unless cooked properly.
- 1921, T. S. Stribling, Birthright[1]:
- The Harvard man went back into the kitchen and sat down at a rickety table covered with a red-checked oil-cloth. On it were spread the spoiled ham, a dish of poke salad, a corn pone, and a pot of weak coffee.
- 2013, Carole J. Skelly, Dictionary of Herbs, Spices, Seasonings, and Natural Flavorings[2], Routledge, →ISBN:
- Whereas to most people, “salad” is made with raw greens, “poke salad” shoots and greens must be cooked, the cooking water changed and discarded several times. […] There are many documented deaths from eating improperly prepared “poke salad.”
- 2019 October 3, Abby Carney, “How Did This Poisonous Plant Become One of the American South’s Most Long-Standing Staples?”, in Saveur[3], retrieved 6 June 2023:
- Despite the fact that the kudzu-like Phytolacca americana sprouts up all across North America, poke sallet, a dish made from the plant’s slightly-less-toxic leaves, is a regional thing, popular only to Appalachia and the American South.
- (chiefly Southern US, Appalachia) Pokeweed, the leafy plant used to make such a dish.
- 1968, Tony Joe White (lyrics and music), “Polk Salad Annie”, in Black and White:
- 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 / And it looks something like a turnip green / Everybody calls it polk salad
Etymology 2 edit
poke (“cubed raw fish”) + salad
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
poke salad (countable and uncountable, plural poke salads)
- A food made from diced raw fish, seasoning, diced fruit and vegetables, and sometimes rice.
- Synonym: poke bowl
Further reading edit
- poke (Hawaiian dish) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia