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Originally posted by garykg6

it seems that the late Jim Comstock,for whom the ramp festival is named,used to be the owner of the ‘West Virginia Hillbilly’,a local newspaper. One year,in order to bring attention to these rather pungent greens,he created his own ‘scratch and sniff’promotional by adding ramp extract to the ink used in printing his newspaper. This brought the postmaster general around,who said something to the effect that he didn’t want the smell of these papers tainting the mail and that he should refrain from using the mail to promote(or denegrade) ‘ramps’………..a great story,whatever his motives.

Jim Constock was one funny guy, and he was a friend of mine. In fact, I got my commission as an admiral in the Cherry River Navy through him.