jmcquown wrote:

> OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:
> > In article >, "Mary" >
> > wrote:
> >
> >> "I-zheet M'drurz" > wrote in message
> >> ...
> >>> 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.
> >>
> >> ba boom!
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Sorry, but all of the deep fried, breaded, Okra I have had was not
> > slimy. That is why they fix it that way. It gets RID of the slime!
>
> Here she goes again (sigh). Breaded or battered and deep fried is the only
> way I'll eat okra, but only when I'm out in a restaurant and it's one of the
> veggie choices on the menu. I don't deep fry stuff. Okra, sliced and added
> to gumbo acts as a natural thickener and is not slimy in the least under
> those conditions.
>
> Jill <--southern and doesn't deep fry

Do try some pickled okra. Some recipes are hot & spicy! The slime factor should
be very low to non existant. I know folks who won't eat oatmeal for the same
reason. *Some* slippery texture is to be expected. I learned to like okra very
late in life. Ditto for b**ts for that matter.
Edrena