Will the "Pandemic" Ever End?

[Ninurta]

@"Michigan Swamp Buck", my grandmother cooked poke-weed with scrambled eggs.  That's the only place I ever ate any. 
She knew how to fix it to make sure the poisonous parts didn't get in the cooking pot.  I didn't realize it was poisonous until many years later. That kind of scared me from eating it again, but it sure was good!  
That "granny's touch" I guess.   

You have to boil poke like greens (think spinach or collards) through about 3 courses of water, pouring the water off each time and replacing it with fresh, to get the nasties out. Then what we would do is after the final drain, roll it in eggs and cornmeal to "bread" it, and fry it up like that with a little salt and pepper. Yum! Folks would look at me crazy-like when I told them I ate it, and say "you can't eat that - it's poisonous!" - but I'm still kicking high just fine, with no ill effects from it.

Manioc is "poisonous" like that too, but South American Indians fix it up every day to bake bread out of, and it don't kill them, either. They prepare manioc by pounding it into a pulp, mixing in water, and then packing it into great big tubular woven sieves to leech out the poison by squeezing the sieves. The poisonous fraction dissolves in the water and juice, and leeches out.

And if you've ever eaten tapioca...

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