Anyone here ever pick "poke salad"?

[Maw Kettle]

40. Many times when I was a kid.

I grew up in Oklahoma, and when I was a kid, my mom and grandmas would take us kids out to pick poke greens. You have to boil them for a while and then pour that water off because otherwise you will get oxalic acid poisoning. We ate them like cooked like regular turnip greens or mustard greens, cooked with some kind of side meat. We also ate them scrambled with eggs and wild onions. Also, I saw someone else talking about sassafras. I lived in Louisiana for a good while in my 20s and early 30s. My cousins down there go out in the woods and gather the sassafras leaves, dry them, and grind them up to make file powder for file gumbo. That is truly a remarkable tree. My grandmothers were young mothers and housewives during the Depression, and they knew about every type of edible wild plant that grew in Northeastern Oklahoma.