{"id":1659,"date":"2010-01-21T13:37:24","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T18:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1659"},"modified":"2010-01-21T13:37:24","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T18:37:24","slug":"turnip-greens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1659","title":{"rendered":"Turnip greens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/a-turnip-greens-2010-01-21-1.JPG' title='a-turnip-greens-2010-01-21-1.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/a-turnip-greens-2010-01-21-1.JPG' alt='a-turnip-greens-2010-01-21-1.JPG' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The grocery store in Walnut Cove had turnip greens this week for $1.29 a bunch. As Michael Pollan says, eat more leaves. Especially at a good price.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, what you see on the countertop is what we around here would call a <em>mess<\/em> of greens. When I was in elementary school, a teacher once derided one of the children for saying &#8220;a mess of greens.&#8221;  The teacher said that that was not proper. How sad. It is perfectly proper, but it does mark one&#8217;s dialect as Appalachian English. I have previously written about <a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1449\">stigmatized dialects<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Oxford English Dictionary gives an example of this usage from 1503: &#8220;You have very good strawberies at your gardayne in Holberne. I require you let us have a messe of them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Mess<\/em> means a portion of food sufficient to make a dish. As I understood the term growing up, it particularly meant a portion of food brought from the garden. I never heard anyone talk about a mess of bacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The grocery store in Walnut Cove had turnip greens this week for $1.29 a bunch. As Michael Pollan says, eat more leaves. Especially at a good price. By the way, what you see on the countertop is what we around here would call a mess of greens. When I was in elementary school, a teacher &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1659\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Turnip greens&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}