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Default Chicken gumbo, do you like it? I've never had it, but...

On Mon, 7 Jun 2021 04:21:54 -0700 (PDT), Bryan Simmons
> wrote:

>On Sunday, June 6, 2021 at 8:47:03 PM UTC-5, Hank Rogers wrote:
>> wrote:
>> > On Sunday, June 6, 2021 at 2:24:20 PM UTC-5, Sheldon wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I find Campbells soups not special but all as good if
>> >> not better than soup from any restaurant. I'll guess that Campbells
>> >> gumbo contains okra and many people don't like okra. It just so
>> >> happens that next to beets okra is a favorate vegetable, and I grow
>> >> lots of okra. Too bad okra doesn't come canned like beets, would save
>> >> me a lot of work. When fresh okra is available one of our favorite
>> >> dishes is an okra omelet.
>> >>
>> > I've eaten many cans of Campbell's chicken noodle or rice soup throughout
>> > my life when I've been sick. Also, just a quick filling meal so I can't fault
>> > those soups.
>> >
>> > I'm a fan of okra as well. I believe frozen, unbreaded, okra is available
>> > here but when I go to the store this week I'll check it out. Do you like
>> > pickled okra?? Pretty good stuff to me.
>> >

>> Popeye wants canned okra, so he can slurp it out of the can. Some
>> do like it. It's OK, but fried is much better.
>>
>> No problems most places getting breaded frozen okra (I've not seen
>> unbreaded). In the north anything may be hard to come by. Lots of
>> yankees don't even know what okra is. It's as mysterious as grits
>> to most. Popeye probably wouldn't know either, if he hadn't
>> discovered it in the navy.
>>

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popeye...the_Sailor.png
>>

>--Bryan

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