brucegodlesky Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 (edited) The ramps is up!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOHOO!!!!!!! Edited March 26, 2009 by brucegodlesky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
element Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 Wow greens! Still 3 feet of snow on the ground over hear lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferrous Beuler Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 Nice! We ain't too far behind y'all. I believe the politically correct term is "appalachian americans"... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brucegodlesky Posted March 26, 2009 Author Share Posted March 26, 2009 I've heard Larry Harley refer to himself as a HillWilliam. (BOG) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rustyshackleford Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 sweeet. I wanna go to the ramp festival in WVA. cherokee's (me) made the whole town eat them together so that no one could be offended by the smell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 Dan, can I advise you not to be calling us'uns from the Ozarks "Appalachian Americans" as we don't take kindly to that at all! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 Still about a foot on the ground here but the temps been in the 40's today so it's going fast. Still it won't be greening up for a month or so. Does living in the Valley make me a valleybillie? Maybe a dalebillie? Maybe I don't qualify at all, my parent's weren't related. Frosty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petersenj20 Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 We got dogwoods blooming. Fishing is upon us. Hillbilly is a perfectly acceptable term if you know what it means. Some picture of a xxxx holding an old truck up while another changes a tire is just funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 Nope; makes you a low lander lessen that valley is way up in a holler somewhere! I was born in NW AR and will be getting some family land in a little place up there someday. right now I live in a valley myself---at close to 5000' above sea level... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 Well I live on a 400' high ridge, lateral moraine actually, in a valley a couple miles from Cook Inlet, just 100 miles or so from a smokin mountain. . . . Yeah . . . low lander. Frosty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt87 Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 We call 'em ramsons round here. The campus is largely covered in 'em but nothing doing yet. Very tasty, though you do get the occasional odd look from the 'it's a plant and he's eating it, how dirty' brigade if they see. Not that I care. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brucegodlesky Posted March 27, 2009 Author Share Posted March 27, 2009 JP, what smell????? (BOG) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 That's OK Frosty, I'll still talk with you; I mean it's not like you're a northerner too----Oh! Wait a minute! We'll just pretend you're from Georgia if any of the kinfolk ask and you can explain that it's a province in Russia... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy seale Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 well, out here we may not be hillbillies but we shonuff backwoods,considering all the ceder thickets and mesquitebut we southern by the grace of god..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 I used to live in the south and I've lived in the hills. I live an easy drive from the hills now, can see REAL mountains from here, some are even spewing molten rock and ash as I speak and if it's clear I can see it from the hills. I have my own patch of woods, some critters to feed and mess with, a shop, no building codes to scorn. Best of all there aren't many backwuhds suthnus to try interpreting hereabouts. It's a little slice of heaven. Frosty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBrann Posted March 29, 2009 Share Posted March 29, 2009 Being from Maine I like spring greens.. but what are ramps??? .... just cause we're off the hill don't mean we are no longer hillbillies.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brucegodlesky Posted March 29, 2009 Author Share Posted March 29, 2009 C We eat them every way imaginable for about 2 months. Then they go back into the ground till next yr. Great thing to eat before the mother-in-law arrives. She'll stay away from ya :-), they are wild leeks. Just thinkling about them makes me smile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBrann Posted March 29, 2009 Share Posted March 29, 2009 thought they looked a little oniony... I usually do dandelion greens... with salt pork.. or last summer chard from the freezer... with salt pork.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quenchcrack Posted March 29, 2009 Share Posted March 29, 2009 Well, I know the first time I went through the Ozark "Mountains" I was clean into Iowa before I realized I had been looking at them for the last 350 miles. I grew up at 6000 feet in Colorado and that didn't qualify as mountains. If you didn't pass out at least once a week from oxygen starvation, you were considered a flatlander. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
divermike Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 ah yes, I heard one say" ifin ah deevorce mah wahf, is she still my sister?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdh Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 Oh man, if you could see the price they get for ramps in this neck of the woods... And worth every penny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
divermike Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 we have signs around here "blind child area" and "deaf child area" I often wonder if it's because of the game the whole family can play? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 Hey I have a friend who's his own uncle/nephew! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brucegodlesky Posted March 31, 2009 Author Share Posted March 31, 2009 What do they bring out there DGH? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdh Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 Last time I saw them available at Pike Place Market, they were going for $20 for a bundle about a third the size of a bundle of spinach from a conventional grocery store. Wild foods are funny, they're either free or incredibly expensive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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