calalu

(ˈkæləluː) or

calaloo

(Cookery) Caribbean the edible leaves of various plants, used as greens or in making thick soups

[probably of African origin]

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--."Claude McKay's 'The Biter Bit': 'Calalu' and Caribbean Colonialism." Callaloo 30.1 (2007): 313-14.

Salvaging dialect and cultural cross-dressing in McKay's Constab Ballads

Even light verse like "The Biter Bit" (1912), with its comic struggle over a "calalu" plant, depicts the bleak situation of the black Jamaican colonized class living under "buccra"--and British Crown Colony--rule.

Claude McKay. Complete Poems

Si a lo frances, prefieres lo criollo, y tu apetito, con loable intento, pirrase por ajiaco y ajopollo y sopon de embrujado condimento, toma este calalu maravilloso con que la noche tropical aduna su maiz estrellado y luminoso, y el diente de ajo de su media luna en divino potaje sustancioso.