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GREENS
Greens too have a complex history in the South.  They were something that people could go and gather after working a long shift at the factory.  So although greens were one of the earlier items to be canned and sold, people didn’t choose to spend their grocery money on them when they first had money to do so.  "Greens can be seen as a protest against the time clock that industrialization introduced," Engelhardt says.  "Gathering greens served as a means for both men and women to resist new factory and mine-driven gender roles, as a walk in the woods did not involve company scrip or time clock."  ~Vivé Griffith, "You Are What You Eat: Dr. Elizabeth Engelhardt studies how your food choices can carry stories of race, class and culture," 2005www.appalachianhistory.net/2010/11/cornbread-or-beaten-biscuits-breaking-the-food-code.html, TPV