Hillbilly Crackpot » Country boy http://www.hillbillycrackpot.com Humor & Entertainment from the Kentucky Bluegrass Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:31:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 When A City Boy Tricks A Country Boy http://www.hillbillycrackpot.com/when-a-city-boy-tricks-a-country-boy/ http://www.hillbillycrackpot.com/when-a-city-boy-tricks-a-country-boy/#comments Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:01:22 +0000 The Crazy Hillbilly http://crazyhillbilly.wordpress.com/?p=42 When I was growing up we moved around quite a bit. I changed schools a lot and experienced living in places ranging from the head of a hollow to the city. As a result I acquired an accent of my own; not ‘hillbilly’ and not ‘buckeye’. When I was in Ohio I was told I “talked like a hillbilly” but when I was in Kentucky I was told that I talked like a “buckeye”.

Once I was going to school in southeastern Kentucky, I think it was around the 6th grade. I was reading a book about edible plants and came across a plant called Jack in the Pulpit. The root of the plant is edible, however in its natural state it includes a chemical that mimics the hottest hot pepper you could find. Native Americans and old timers leached the chemical from the roots before using them for food.

What I found particularly interesting was a citation that country boys would trick city boys into taking a bite of a fresh root. I thought it would be really funny if a country…

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