Ramp Festival
Yeah.....
Every year our small community gets together and has a festival for ramps. Ramps can be considered a very strong smelly onion, and if you eat them raw your breath smells very nasty. They can be ate raw or chopped up in fried potatoes. My do cot said that they run up your blood pressure and to avoid them.
The festival has food and small tables set up to advertise things. Usually the food consists of: chicken, fish, beans, potatoes,and of course ramps. As a family we used to make the trip up on Panther Creek every year to pick bags of ramps. For awhile it was a tradition, but the outsiders who came in ruined that. As you pick this plant you are supposed to leave so much of it behind or it will not come up the following year. Needless to say.... They picked it all out of each patch and the following year it came up less and less. Dad said it was a sing of " change" everything that used to be will never be. That is what he has said for years and it seems as of he is correct.
We went to the festival right after church. I wasn't the only one who didn't get a chance to change clothing. Grandma said it was a public event and that there was no reason not to look your best.
Every year our small community gets together and has a festival for ramps. Ramps can be considered a very strong smelly onion, and if you eat them raw your breath smells very nasty. They can be ate raw or chopped up in fried potatoes. My do cot said that they run up your blood pressure and to avoid them.
The festival has food and small tables set up to advertise things. Usually the food consists of: chicken, fish, beans, potatoes,and of course ramps. As a family we used to make the trip up on Panther Creek every year to pick bags of ramps. For awhile it was a tradition, but the outsiders who came in ruined that. As you pick this plant you are supposed to leave so much of it behind or it will not come up the following year. Needless to say.... They picked it all out of each patch and the following year it came up less and less. Dad said it was a sing of " change" everything that used to be will never be. That is what he has said for years and it seems as of he is correct.
We went to the festival right after church. I wasn't the only one who didn't get a chance to change clothing. Grandma said it was a public event and that there was no reason not to look your best.
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