In article >,
"Bob" > wrote:
> Mary tried to explain:
>
> >> Mary spaketh thusly:
> >>
> >>> Anyone hear the comic who said he ate so much
> >>> okra as a child that he couldn't keep his socks up?
> >>
> >> OK, anybody else who doesn't get it, raise your spatula...
> >>
> >> --
> >
> > Have you ever had fried okra? It is kind of like deep-fried
> > slime. Very slippery. It is almost as though southerners
> > were hard pressed to find something to deepfry and settled
> > for something that would hold its shape just long enough for the
> > batter to brown.
>
> But okra doesn't *have* to be slimy. Pickled okra isn't slimy, is it?. Fried
> okra doesn't have to be slimy either: The trick is to buy small pods and
> leave them whole. In fact, I did that exact thing last night, and the okra
> wasn't slimy at all. I got that tip from Cook's Illustrated's _Perfect
> Vegetables_ -- which means it's probably in at least a couple other Cook's
> Illustrated books.
>
> For the record, Southerners are *never* hard-pressed to find something to
> deep-fry. They'd be hard-pressed to find something they *wouldn't*
> deep-fry.
>
> Bob
>
>
<snicker> The voice of a native methinks??? ;-D
Same here, and you are right!
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