Foraging quote...

[topper]

Thought I would post the quote as a separate thread rather than bury it in the burdock recipe thread.

Wild food...
"It's the poor person's staple,
the rich person's delicacy,
and the frugal person's delight."

For what it is worth...

[Jack of all Trapping]

Mar 31, 2015 13:40:33 GMT -5 topper said:

Thought I would post the quote as a separate thread rather than bury it in the burdock recipe thread.

Wild food...
"It's the poor person's staple,
the rich person's delicacy,
and the frugal person's delight."

For what it is worth...

Pops put that quote over the camp cookstove. Still there today.

[topper]

Mar 31, 2015 14:09:46 GMT -5 Jack of all Trapping said:

Mar 31, 2015 13:40:33 GMT -5 topper said:

Thought I would post the quote as a separate thread rather than bury it in the burdock recipe thread.

Wild food...
"It's the poor person's staple,
the rich person's delicacy,
and the frugal person's delight."

For what it is worth...

Pops put that quote over the camp cookstove. Still there today.

Jack, new to the forum. Stupid question but -- where do I find the camp cookstove?
Thanks.

[Deleted]

Mar 31, 2015 13:40:33 GMT -5 topper said:

Thought I would post the quote as a separate thread rather than bury it in the burdock recipe thread.

Wild food...
"It's the poor person's staple,
the rich person's delicacy,
and the frugal person's delight."

For what it is worth...

Love it

[Jack of all Trapping]

Mar 31, 2015 14:31:20 GMT -5 topper said:

Mar 31, 2015 14:09:46 GMT -5 Jack of all Trapping said:

Pops put that quote over the camp cookstove. Still there today.

Jack, new to the forum. Stupid question but -- where do I find the camp cookstove?
Thanks.

Top, I meant, it is on the wall over the wood cookstove in my cabin. Looks like it is embroidered on a cloth. Its in a picture frame.

[Jack of all Trapping]

It says 1935 on the back of it. Great Depression?

[bowslinger]

rings true today with price of stuff in stores

[topper]

 Boy am I dumb! Here I thought I had made the faux pas of posting something that had already been posted.
Funny how the mind works. Thinking that "Pop" was another nickname for JC-The Boss...  No offense Boss.

I did want to ask if you knew anything about the origin of the quote. Good to know it goes back a ways & that someone thought enough of it to take the time to embroider it -- and then frame it!!! Has it been in your family all this time?

My Mom was 23 in 1935 & there is, how can I say, a certain personality trait found in folks who lived thru the Depression. Then right into a war with it's rationing & shortages.

[topper]

Mar 31, 2015 18:51:50 GMT -5 bowslinger said:

rings true today with price of stuff in stores

Yeah, & if you can even find it in the store, it is full of sodium, sugar & all kind of artificial colors & flavoring & stuff.

Some years back my Father-in-law had a field of bell peppers & frost was forecast for that night. So the whole crew of us picked the field clean.
I had seen a patch of purslane, so after we finished with the peppers I harvested a bunch of the purslane. Everyone kidded me about "picking weeds". However, bell peppers can't even begin to compare nutritionally.

As an aside Marco Polo had brought  purslane back to Europe from the Far East, & then colonists brought it with them, when they immigrated to the New World. Quite a rich history for -- a weed!!!

I'll get off the soap box now...