It's a strange, strange world we live in, Master Jack.

Thursday, November 12, 2015

Thanks, but no thanks

This is a little different from the things I normally post on this site, but I just got an email containing "Popular okra recipes."

 I'm sorry. There are popular okra recipes? Plural?

For me, this line from the entry on Wikipedia says it all: "Okra is an allopolyploid of uncertain parentage."

Huh. I ain't eatin' no allopolyploid even if I know who their parents was!
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3 comments:

  1. Ur-spoNovember 12, 2015 at 7:58 PM

    none of the best folks do.

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  2. Moving with MitchellNovember 13, 2015 at 3:50 AM

    Ha ha! But wait! There's more that makes it so incredibly appetizing:
    "The products ... are mucilaginous, resulting in the characteristic "goo" or slime when the seed pods are cooked.... Some people prefer to minimize the sliminess; keeping the pods intact, and brief cooking, for example stir-frying, help to achieve this. Cooking with acidic ingredients ... may also help... the pods can be sliced thinly and cooked for a long time so the mucilage dissolves..."

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  3. BobNovember 13, 2015 at 3:54 AM

    Raised by a Southern, she often tried to get me to eat okra.
    It never happened.
    Now, living in the South you see okra everywhere.
    Still, it will never happen.

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