An awful lot of Americans really are awfully crazy. And no, I’m not talking the ones who voted for Donald Trump. I’m referring to the ones who bought collard greens from Neiman Marcus.

If that sounds strange, consider this: in its annual provocative Christmas catalog, the expensive retailer offered, as one of more unusual seasonal gifts, three pounds of collards for sale. The price was a mere $66 plus nearly $16 to ship them, presumably to locations where agriculture is legally prohibited.

Just checking on this, I discovered that in these parts — which are nowhere around the southern parts where collards got their start — you can buy a pound of collards for about a dollar. One dollar. There way our family has always cooked them up, three pounds would make about five decent servings.

Now, here’s the thing. The Neiman Marcus offer was ridiculous in every way. But in fact it sold out. There were enough nutty people who were willing to fork over $82 for a few greens. Surely a lot of them must have voted for Trump, right?

Down south where I’m from — and where collards are from, too, although Neiman Marcus made no mention of the south in its advertising copy — people would probably just brush this aside as more evidence of clueless non-southerners. And they’d be right.

I’d enjoy seeing the reaction I’d get if I sauntered over to my local farmer’s market and offered one of the growers $66 for three pounds of greens. Being smart Yankees, I bet they’d take it in a skinny minute (or at least I would if given that offer).

And they’d probably then offer me some fresh greenhouse tomatoes, too, for only $45 a pound. There are most likely some folks around who’d take them up on it.