Melba's Jammin' wrote:
> In article > ,
> "The Joneses" > wrote:
>
>> I'm thinking I'll have to go out to farmer country and pick my own okra. One
>> grower WILL not have his pickers take care to pick with a stem (for a
>> pickle handle).
>> Edrena
>
> 'Splain yourself, Lucy. You want a bit of stem on your pickles? In
> Meen-ah-so-ta, we say, "Huh. That's different."

You don't want to cut into the okra pod, that's what releases the gunk.
Which works for thickening gumbo but for pickles not so much.

B/