SC - new/old Speculum article

[Elaine Koogler]

They are a delightful small nut, and the name, I believe, is spelled
chinquapin.  I also believe that the name is Native American.  I have seen trees
and the nuts in western Virginia...not sure where else they grow.

Kiri

Dana Huffman wrote:

> 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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