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cshenk

wrote:

> On Sunday, October 21, 2018 at 11:40:04 AM UTC-5, notbob wrote:
> >
> > I finally mastered the "Greens That Will Rule the World", recipe
> > that I had at a Thanksgiving dinner I ate, in Oakland. I also toss
> > in a couple strip o' bacon, before I start cooking the greens.
> > Greens NEED some kinda pork fat (no wine, although I may jes try a
> > white).
> >
> > nb
> >
> I thought everyone knew that to have tasty greens you MUST have some
> sort of 'pork' seasoning. That would be either bacon grease, a strip
> or two of bacon, or a smoked ham hock. Without that addition to the
> cooking water all you have cooked is a bunch of greens that will
> taste akin to cooked lawn clippings.

Not everyone is making them southern style. There are other ways to
cook them.