Cank Salad

Up there in Charlotte, it seems they got themselves a Canker Worm problem.


They done gone and hired a big city yankee to come down and spray something called BT to kill 'em all. Folks here in Lando have known about Canker worms a long time, and we figured out years ago how to deal with them.


Here's a picture of the Sky Tractor spraying over Charlotte.


Seems they take this modified crop duster and fly real low over the city and drop the BT stuff on all the trees. It's real sticky and clings to the trees. Somehow the worms eat it and they all die and fall on the ground. Problem solved.

Here in Lando, we take a little simpler approach that everyone can enjoy. It's called a Canker Crawl, and we have it every year about this time.

A Canker Crawl is when most of the ladies in town cook up their favourite recipe using Canker worms. Then people go from house to house and sample the food. It's a real big party, and most everyone in town gets in on it! At the end, ballots are cast and we select a Canker Queen based on who cooked up the tastiest dish.

Cank is a spring-time treat and is only around for a couple of weeks. It's also very versatile. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it.

There's, cank-kabobs, cank creole, cank gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There’s pineapple cank, lemon cank, coconut cank, pepper cank, cank soup, cank stew, cank salad, cank and potatoes, cank burger, cank sandwich.

We've had cank slaw, cank toast, cank po-boy, cank étouffée, cank pie, cank dressing, cank bread, and cank beignets.

This year the Cank Crawl is April 17-20 in lovely downtown Lando.

Y'all dont miss it!