Chinky-pins, was Re: SC - bugs (OOP)
Elaine Koogler
ekoogler at chesapeake.net
Thu Feb 8 20:00:46 PST 2001
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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