You might be a “Southie” if...

[itsasmallfarm]

But your a VWNer. So you don’t have a vote.....

and we have been through this before, how most of Alaska are really southies masquerading as northerners.

your going to need to explain it about 3 more times lol

 

[duluthralphie]

your going to need to explain it about 3 more times lol

I just can’t today, but ask me tomorrow. And I will do something.

 

[CindyinSD]

My honey bees have more sense than to go to Okra trees.

I actually, have a sit down with my bees once a week where I tell them what they can harvest pollen or nectar from and which ones to avoid.

The weekly OSHA hour?

 

[CindyinSD]

I have never seen an okra plant before... Now that I have seen one, I would describe it as a cactus flower stuck onto some weird mutant greenbean-jalapeno mix. Is that what they taste like? Seriously though, I've never tried okra and now I am curious...

I remember seeing Okra plants in FL and thinking they were really strange hibiscus. I was surprised as a young adult to learn they were a food crop. Okra is the seed pod of that pretty flower. The thing people usually object to in okra is that it is very mucilaginous. Oddly it is this characteristic that makes it so helpful in a gumbo as it adds body. It's also very healthful (the mucousy stuff) for some reason I have long ago forgotten.

But yes, unless you fry it so crisp that the mucous is no longer a factor and it tastes like any other fritter, it does take some getting used to.

 

[duluthralphie]

I remember seeing Okra plants in FL and thinking they were really strange hibiscus. I was surprised as a young adult to learn they were a food crop. Okra is the seed pod of that pretty flower. The thing people usually object to in okra is that it is very mucilaginous. Oddly it is this characteristic that makes it so helpful in a gumbo as it adds body. It's also very healthful (the mucousy stuff) for some reason I have long ago forgotten.

But yes, unless you fry it so crisp that the mucous is no longer a factor and it tastes like any other fritter, it does take some getting used to.

Getting use too!

as if that can ever happen.

I’ll stick to normal food like headcheese.

 

[SueT]

Oddly it is this characteristic that makes it so helpful in a gumbo as it adds body.

Yes, it thickens soups nicely. If cooking it as a vegetable dish, I only use very small tender pods, under 2", sauteed in olive oil. Okra is one thing we can grow that the varmints, birds, and bugs don't bother. One year we grew the most lovely sweet corn. Despite fencing it in, we never got one ear. So that's partly why we eat okra.

 

[guineapeeps]

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"Die clean white man from town...die clean!"

Can anyone name this movie?

Thinner?
(thought the book was better than the movie)

 

[duluthralphie]

Yes, it thickens soups nicely. If cooking it as a vegetable dish, I only use very small tender pods, under 2", sauteed in olive oil. Okra is one thing we can grow that the varmints, birds, and bugs don't bother. One year we grew the most lovely sweet corn. Despite fencing it in, we never got one ear. So that's partly why we eat okra.

mud thickens soup too, But I wouldn’t eat that either...

I should have named the thread the “worlds most disgusting food “okra”.

But then we would not be able to discuss boiled peanuts or grits. And I actually find Okra and boiled peanuts equally gut wrenching.

 

[duluthralphie]

Thinner?
(thought the book was better than the movie)

Please forgive Fake Eilleen for asking or even mentioning this.

She likes that not so great Southie author Stephen King.

 

[guineapeeps]

Getting use too!

as if that can ever happen.

I’ll stick to normal food like headcheese.

Headcheese: “meat from a pig's or calf's head that is cooked and pressed into a loaf with aspic”

Fried okra!