"gloria.p" wrote:
>
> I just watched Alton Brown's episode on okra.
>
> It's a pretty plant/flower but watching what he cooked didn't make me
> want to try it again. I've had it pickled which wasn't bad, but the
> texture of cooked okra is...strange.

Why do you have to rip open this wound again,
when it's hardly had time to heal? This is
the world's most controversial vegetable,
guaranteeed to provoke extremists on both sides.
It would be easier to convert a Jew into a
Muslim than to change someone's mind about okra.