Don, I did have to teach them a lot of stuff.
They ate turnips but not the greens.
I cooked some meat skins one time when a friend killed his hog and then they would bring enough skins to feed King George's army....never turned them down though...I would do enough for them to sample and throw the rest of them away.
My biggest problem with a garden there was the fact they all had one so I could not give extra stuff away,. I would fill every jar I had and fill the freeze then just had to throw the rest to some of their pigs.
Did you save any of those skins for Cracklin' Cornbread? If so, did you let them try it? Did you take the opportunity to share the recipe with them? Good food is sometimes wasted on Yankees.
Yes, I did treat them to the flavor. They did not at the time, eat any kind of cornbread and the meal I bought up there was like face powder (made the texture more like a cake than cornbread like we knew it.. I from then on started taking cornmeal home when I was in Alabama. At that time I used Jim Dandy.