Chinky-pins, was Re: SC - bugs (OOP)

[deborah minyard]

Were the wild grape things Muscadines?
Maddalena

>From: Dana Huffman <letrada at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>Subject: Chinky-pins, was Re: SC - bugs (OOP)
>Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 17:26:00 -0800 (PST)
>
>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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