Monday, October 1, 2007

Poke Salad Annie

Never, never consult Wikipedia.

I'm already the queen of useless trivia, so imagine my distress when I went online to look for the correct name of the song -- simply because it's been chasing itself around my head for a few hours -- and found a whole slew of new useless trivia.

Do I need to know that "sallet" is the correct name for "polk" greens? You cook them so they don't kill you. "Salad" isn't cooked. Do I need to imagine Tony Joe White enunciating Polk Sallet Annie? I can't remember what I had for breakfast this morning or call my children by their correct names, but I'll probably be able to recall that Jerry Scheff played "rare fuzz bass solos" on Elvis' covers beginning in 1972.

Gators got your granny (chomp, chomp).