Okra is not bad!!

[kick-ass-bob]

You just have to prepare it the right way.

I just had it for the first time last night - lightly fried in olive oil. It wasn't 'OMG, I'm gonna die' good, but it sure wasn't the 'how can you eat that crap' bad.

[Richardo]

1. Fried properly, or pickled...

...is the way to eat okra.

Coincidentally, those words also describe a large part of my college career. :)

[Heidi]

15. I love Okra . . .

Okra (properly fried) with diced green tomatoes was excellent summer food where I grew up. Sadly, it won't grow in our part of Switzerland. :(

[demnan]

2. Great in gumbo too

I really don't know why people don't like this wonderful veggie. My favorite way is to fry it in oil and spices like garlic and mustard seed, Asian-Indian style.

[kick-ass-bob]

5. because they cook it wrong.

I think I'll make an apple pie in the microwave. Let's see how that turns out.
:puke:

[doc03]

3. I've tried fried Okra at Bob Evans I like it.

[EST]

4. Okra is very good, unless you do something stupid,

as I did once -- picking a lot of it in a crowded patch without a shirt.
My, oh my!

[In_The_Wind]

6. I like it fried to a slightly dark color, nice and crispy.

[sendero]

12. Exactly...

... fried okra is easy, but easily messed up. Slice it, roll it in salted cornmeal. Fry it in hot (375 degrees) oil until it gets really brown. It totally changes taste and of course texture when it is fried long enough, to get brown. :)

[jeff30997]

7. You lightly fried Oprah in olive oil ? My God !

She's far better grilled on a BBQ.

[kick-ass-bob]

8. that's funny, because last night my wife said

"do your mom like okra" to a friend, and I thought she said "does your mom like Oprah" to which the friend said, "yeah, she fries okra all the time"

which lead me to hop confusedly into the other room

:crazy:

[Jamastiene]

9. I guess if you don't mind

fighting the plant it grows on to get the okra off the plant, you can get over the slimy way it feels while washing and preparing it, and you eat it with some beans, you are right. To me though, the plant has the small prickly things on it that make my skin sting, the slimy way it feels when washing it reminds me of slugs, and the taste of it by itself makes me wanna eat earthworms raw instead. Now, if someone else picks it, prepares it, and cooks it and also has some beans to eat with it, I'm there. I just don't have the stamina to stick to it after the plant it grows on has stuck me a few times and the okra itself has fought me in the kitchen to keep from being eaten, and tastes only so-so even prepared the best possible way (rolled in cornmean and fried in olive oil). To me, every one of those things is an indication that maybe I shouldn't eat okra...I mean anything that fights that hard oughta be left alone, maybe.

[kick-ass-bob]

10. the fight makes it all the more worth it.

:P

:bounce:

[Hugin]

11. Boiled okra could choke a snail.

Ewwww... Slimy, gewie, gak!

It's a mess.

[liberalitch]

13. deep fried, in soup, veggie pie.....

but i even like it boiled and slimey.....
i'll eat collards and turnip greens too.....
not above eating pig snout and some grits

[Cats Against Frist]

14. I don't know

I'll eat black licorice, gravlax, cow tongue and raw eggs, so I'm used to strong flavors, acquired tastes and "icky" foods, but I tried to make veggie kashimiri with okra in it (along with cauliflower and sweet potatoes), and as I was washing and cutting it, getting ready to put it into the pan, I started to wretch. Then, I puked, threw it out, and felt queasy for a couple days, because I could still smell it, in the kitchen.

Though, when I was a kid, my parents used to take me to Bonanza -- they had fried okra, and it was pretty good. I think some people just need to stay far away from it, until it's fried.