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a wild garlicky onion so beloved by foragers that whole forests get stripped bare
means A ramp is a wild North American leek (Allium tricoccum) with broad green leaves and a pungent garlic-onion flavor, prized as an early-spring foraged delicacy.
from From the Old English 'hramsa,' meaning wild garlic, which softened into the dialect word 'rams' or 'ramson' still used in Britain for the same plant. Appalachian settlers carried the name across the Atlantic, where it slimmed down to 'ramp' — so the word is a quiet linguistic fossil, an Anglo-Saxon mouthful surviving in mountain hollows long after it faded elsewhere.
- foraging ban
- Quebec made commercial ramp harvesting illegal to stop overpicking
- slow grower
- a ramp patch can take seven years to mature
- double meaning
- also an incline, a skate ledge, and a verb
- spring fever
- Appalachian towns throw entire festivals devoted to them
- family ties
- close cousin to leeks, onions, and garlic
for instance
burnside skate park — iconic under-bridge concrete ramp in portland, oregon built illegally by skaters in 1990, still active