tert in seattle wrote:
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> I did something wrong with okra about 25 years ago

Oh yeah. I have a funny one about okra. Years ago, I had only had
okra once and it was an ingredient in a stew of some kind. Seemed
like a nice enough vegetable.

So one day, I saw a bag of frozen sliced okra and I bought it.
Well, I cooked it by itself and put it on the plate as a
vegetable side. At dinner time, I scooped some up with a fork and
watched as a slime trail developed from the plate up to my mouth.
WTF???

I tried another scoop and still saw that creepy slime trail. I
had never heard of this and I totally freaked out. What's going
on here, "Did some factory worker spit in this before they bagged
it for sale?" That's what I figured so I scraped it off my plate
and tossed the rest out too. That slime just seemed so wrong. lol

Another dumbasian time of mine, I was using a recipe and it
called for "cream of tartar." I had never heard of it and didn't
have any so I thought, "cream of..." I'll just substitute milk
instead. I had no clue that it was a powder. lol another recipe
fail.