What is the strangest old timey vegetable you have eaten

[coloradoclyde]

Long lost, I am... :haha:

 

[Blizzard of '93]

lamb's quarter is a tasty green. cress and 'creasy greens' are also good vitamin source.

 

[coloradoclyde]

lamb's quarter is a tasty green.

Can't get past the fuzziness....

 

[gearheart]

Now you done it. I got a hankerin fer kohlrabi. Mom always had 2 rows of that in her garden.

 

[coloradoclyde]

In season, fresh from the garden...sliced thin and salted with a beer for a chaser......Pure heaven on a hot summer afternoon.....

 

[Hairy Clipper]

Elderberry Jelly

 

[Zonie]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Goober Peas (boiled peanuts).

Anything that has had a whole song written about it can't be all bad.

I haven't tried them but I did do some reading about the best way to fix them. :hmm:

 

[coloradoclyde]

Boiled peanuts aren't
}"old timey"' I can buy them in small grocery stores way up here.... :haha:

Though I admit I haven't tried them.....

 

[satx78247]

How about JUST A BOWL OF BUTTERBEANS by Little Jimmy Dickens??
(My mother hated that song as it uses the tune to JUST A CLOSER WALK WITH THEE.)

CHUCKLE, satx

 

[fleener]

Boiled peanuts must be an acquired taste. I have tried them and they are not good.

Fleener

 

[Gun Tramp]

Salsify. Also called oyster plant, it tastes nothing like oysters or anything else for that matter. Not bad, just different. Earthy? An old world biennial, it is a carrot-shaped root vegetable sown in the spring and dug in the fall of it's first year. I've grown it occasionally and had a really nice crop two years ago. Steamed and buttered enough for a good sized platter for the household members but their lukewarm response allowed me to have most of it for myself. Folks, within a couple of hours I began a farting session like never before and it went on for most of the night. Most fun I'd had in years. We now call it "fartroot." Your mileage may vary...

 

[Carbon 6]

I began a farting session like never before

Salsify, salsify, the magical root, the more you eat the more you toot.

 

[Tom A Hawk]

Boiled peanuts must be an acquired taste. I have tried them and they are not good.

Fleener

Agreed. I bought some on a whim. One taste was enough.

 

[Tom A Hawk]

Jerusalem Artichoke. I planted a few roots in the garden several years ago and they became an invasive species. Rumor has it the early settlers ate a lot of it and complained of flatulence. They don't taste too bad but I prefer them raw or in a stir fry similar to water chestnuts. Supposed to be an alternative to potatoes but I didn't care for them roasted.

Cattail spikes - Like tiny ears of corn.
Hominy made by boiling dried corn in wood ashes.
Beech and hickory nuts
White oak acorn meal
Sumac lemonade

 

[Loyalist Dave]

jerusalem artichokes
persimmons from old trees on land in a state park (was once a farm)
Cattail tubers
Gete-Okosomin Native American squash.

LD

 

[Kansas Kid]

Kohlrabi is pretty good sliced in about 1/4” thick steaks and fried in bacon grease. Mom always took advantage of lambs quarters or iron weed. A wilted dandelion salad is pretty good also.

 

[Muley Graves]

Wild onions, Morels, puffballs, Hen of the Woods, dandelion, Poke, possum grapes, persimmons, Musk melon, muskidine, elderberry, and a buncha other stuff that tasted nasty.

 

[pnw]

Parsnips, rutabaga, mallow (button weed) seeds, and 150 year old apple varieties from abandoned orchards to name a few

 

[Tanglefoot]

Cattail root, Skunk Cabbage, Dewberries, Wild Plums, Dandelion Greens, Beet Greens (boiled with salt pork), Gooseberries, Pine Nuts, Tree nuts of several varieties,
Camas Root, Prickly Pears.

 

[ugly old guy]

"Edible": It won't kill you but does not necessarily taste good.

"Eatable": Won't kill you and tastes good.

I suppose the strangest "old timey" veggie I've had is multi-colored "indian corn".

I'll presume that things like (gag) beets (gag) and turnups, the various greens, love aplles, shelf mushrooms, rhubarb, etc. don't count as a "strangest".