SC - Torta de melones

[rcmann4@earthlink.net]

Yeah, well, people tend to look puzzled when I refer to
pill bugs, too.  I suspect that my family may have had its
own dialect in some subject areas.  But yes, they had a
sort of horn at one end and, I think, red spots along their
sides?

On the subject of name confusion and odd critters, can
anyone tell me anything about an edible, wild nut-like
thing called chinky-pins?  No idea of the spelling; my mom
says she used to eat them ca. the Depression in Arkansas,
along with a wild grape-ish thing the name of which escapes
me, but was something similarly odd.  They probably grew in
the bayous?

Dana

- --- Nisha Martin <nishamartin at yahoo.com> wrote:
> In my childhood, potato bugs were bright green
> caterpillars
> 
> Those were what we called TOMATO bugs(at least where
> I'm from). They demolished more than one garden plot
> at our house. We tried not to use too many pesticides,
> but there were years if you didn't you didn't get any
> garden crops. Those caterpilars had the little hook on
> their rear end, right?
> 
> Nisha
> 


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