Body Snatchers, Schadenfreude, and Okra
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What is it about Okra?
How did this lowly “ditch weed” get elevated to the point where people not only eat it, but describe this vegetable in glowing terms?
Especially in the south, people praise this alien seed pod in glowing terms like…”Ummm, gimme a big pan of Fried Okra” or something like “When Grandma cooks up her special pan of Fried Okra, you know the preacher is coming to visit.”
Could this be some sort of Southern ritual that you had to endure to pass from child to manhood. Like a first tobacco chew or some sort of strange Southern Bar Mitzvah?
Then I concluded that it was just a big practical joke that I just hadn’t caught on to.
Something like Snipe Hunting where everybody gets together to bullshit the newbie who stays out in the field all night with a burlap sack. But nobody ever cracked up laughing and let me in on it. They just kept on eating.. arrrrghhh!
Then I turned to darker ideas. What if people were depressed about succumbing to eating Okra? To elevate their foul moods, they wanted other people to share in their pain. A vegetable Schadenfreude of the worst type. Oh the humanity!
For those of you that haven’t experienced the taste bud terror of Okra, let me describe. Imagine a seed pod about the diameter of your thumb and twice as long. Now inject into this seed pod, slime with the constituency of a 2 day old cowboy loogie.
Think that is bad? We are not through just yet.
Take the urticating hairs of a Tarantula spider and apply equally all over the outside of the pod. That folks is the accurate description of the flowering butt bloom known as Okra.
Okay, now this is the weird part. I have my theory that I have developed over the years as a way to cope with this slimy hairy terror. Remember the movie “Invasion of the Body Snatchers“? This is where some alien pods inject themselves into humans and take over their minds and bodies. Creepy! This is the level of the hideous subversive conspiracy that Okra is central to.
Proof of point. No matter how adamant I state that I cannot stand Okra, that is never accepted as a valid answer. These pod people will always respond back with..”Well, have you ever tried it cooked this way?” or “No, you wouldn’t say that if you had it the way my Mom cooks it” or “Jimmy Bob’s House of Okra has that best damn Okra this side of…”
Pod People! Obviously, Okra has taken control of their reptilian brain to continue with it’s plan of world domination.
More proof as to the advance stages of this evil conspiracy progression, I fully expect several Okra recipes being sent in with statements like…”you haven’t tried Okra till you’ve tried it this way”.
Zombies!! Pod People!! Arrrgh!!
And yes, I know that technically Okra is a fruit. Or so it would have us think….
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The only good thing about okra is its attractiveness when flowering. Ironically its Latin name is “Abelmoschus esculentus”- this vegetable is anything but “succulent”.
Okra-homa!
Okra is only good for thickening stews and gumbos, that is if you have nothing better to use. I classify it among those other vile things that Southerners are apt to pickle: melon rinds, pigs feet, and eggs.
Eugene claims okra is a foreign plot by the Japanese to infiltrate the palate of the most taste-benighted citizens. The word “okra” itself is, according to Eugene, “the way those Nips say the abbreviated name of the state people are most likely to eat it in.”
Krell, you must live in “okrahoma” and Eugene says you have his pity.
You all can probably guess who in our family just LOVES okra. (If you said Mavis you are correct!)
Betty,
Tell Eugene that he needs to translate the Engrish to what it means. Mavis is the one that lives in Florida? She isn’t connected to those Fiji Mermaids is she?
Jess…you are clearly married to an alien…please contact Mulder immediatley…or possibly Scully as she’s quite hot…
Yes that is right Jess.
You have clearly married an alien. First step to normalcy….give away all things that produce sound and begin with a K.
If you do not, you will have this big robot with a strange name walk up and shoot everything in sight with his laser eye.
Unless you say…uh what was that phrase…oh ya that’s right, ekki-ekki-ekki-pitang-zoom-boing
Hmm, my hubby’s name is Kenneth, so should I start by getting rid of him, because he does produce sound? Or are you talking smaller than him(6’1 maybe2″) and produce sound from boxy looking objects? Now if you were to, by chance, manage to get JD coming to my door, not only would hubby go, I would send those those damn speakers to you myself overnight. Can you make that happen?
Jess, I wasn’t aware that you were a fan of Jareb Dauplaise.
I sent an email to his fan site and I think you are set! He replied that not only would he like to meet you but asked me to make sure that it was a real live girl, not quite sure what that last part means.
This is happening!
:), I did tell hubby I am to either get rid of him or the speakers. Exact phrase was, if I go the speakers go with me. When I reminded him they were actually mine, I got an oh yeah that’s right isn’t it.
Sounds like a smart guy that sticks to his speaker principals.
Some things in life you just have to make a stand…
Okra is up there with peanut butter for me. I won’t eat it at all, it just looks and smells nasty when it is cooked. My husband eats this pork dish that uses okra, eggplant and a sour tasting melon from a Vietnamese or Thai place, he loves that stuff. Me, not so much.
Haven’t got a scooby…frightening anyroad..whatever it is…
This sort of thing makes me appreciate Britain.
…a bit