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poke salad

alt. A food made from boiled pokeweed leaves, which are poisonous unless cooked properly. n. A food made from boiled pokeweed leaves, which are poisonous unless cooked properly.

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Poke salad

Poke, Poke salad, poke salat, or poke sallet may refer to:

  • Poke (Hawaii), a salad made from marinated raw fish
  • Poke salad (aka poke salat or poke sallett), a dish prepared using Phytolacca americana (American pokeweed)

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Usage examples of "poke salad".

If we hadn't done it, all the bankers would still be back in Georgia, living on poke salad and turnip greens.

And for dinner, there was more biscuits, salt pork and gravy, with perhaps some sweetnin' (sorghum) and a poke salad--greens boiled with pork into a greasy, tasteless mess.

There was no witchgrass, jimson, pikeweed, whore's hair, or poke salad.