...hate you so much!



Look at you so smug with your seeds and your little membranes, acting like you're all that. Well, you're not! You look like a green ass plug, your taste is completely awful, and you feel like slurm. You think your sticky substance is a redeeming quality. Hah! It disgusts me. You think you're so good cuz you can be fried or put into stews and gumbos. Well La-Ti-Da! So can many other vegetables. And they are 1,000 percent better than you in almost every regard. And heavens to Betsy if you overgrow and become nothing more than a reedy, inedible piece of trash.

Yeah. FUCK YOU okra! FUCK YOU indeed!

word up.

I'd eat 10 lbs. of okra before I eat 1 oz. of brussell sprouts...

Boo!

Deep-fried okra is one of life's great pleasures. And where would gumbo be without okra? (Although, technically, there are okra-less versions of gumbo made with file powder).

...eat that vegetable!

I love okra!

and

and

i'm kind of a fan of okra...

but if you can bust out a Rhubarb rant i'm with ya 100%

Dude, what about Rhubarb pie?

Man, I really love Okra anytime I have it, but it's something I never think about making at home.

Oh man, there's nothing like some home-made strawbery-rhubarb pie!

how do you guys feel about asparagus?

asparagus should be coated with olive oil, skewered on both ends (forming a raft of sorts), and cooked on a grill. for serving, remove from skewers and sprinkle with feta cheese. that is how i feel about asparagus.

Okra sucks.
Brussel sprouts - not great
Broccoli - rules
Asparagus - must be cooked right, then is awesome.

It's yummy, and it makes your pee smell. All around great vegetable.

okra is okay when fried. When it's not fried, it is downright disgusting. My theory is most anybody from the south is going to claim to love okra, even if they don't. That's just southern pride.

missouri isn't the south. it's just trashy.

okra is good when it's in something else. and eaten, say, twice a year. i had gumbo last week and was pleasantly surprised. like, "oh hey look it's okra" because okra and gumbo go together. if i was eating my raisin bran and okra appeared i'd be pissed off.

brussel sprouts are simply the worst. taste like post nasal drip.

broccoli is almost as bad.

asparagus, obviously, is the greatest vegetable. ever.

Someone disliking broccoli is completely mind blowing to me.

Shit, I even like brussel sprouts.

broccoli is good as long as you don't have elephantitis broccoli that is just too big for its own good.

i, too, will eat the brussel sprouts.

all veggies are good if you cook 'em the right way.

back to the matter at hand...it's not so much the taste of the okra, it's the slime within that I can't rally behind.

it grosses me out when I'm eating it.

oh no you didn't. i am not from schenectady! gross! i wouldn't even be caught dead in that place.

For real? This whole NYC thing is a big hoax, then?

I know a guy from Evanston that is on a curling team. Not sure if they are based in Evanston or Chicago, though.

EDIT: Chicago Curling Club

I like to think of it like a picket fence. Use Seseme oil, sprinkle with salt and pepper. Rocks!

Try coating some jerk seasonings with the oil.
Add heat and flavour.
Try

(This stuff is great on pork and chicken)

Asparagus is the perfect vegetable. Throw it on the grill w/ a drizzle of olive or sesame oil. Roll it in phyllo w/ artichoke/lemon pesto & bake. Toss it w/ meat, veggies &/or pasta for stir-fry. Wrap your cheesy omelette around it.

AND IT MAKES YOUR PEE SMELL FUNNY.

but, honestly, doesn't pee already smell funny?

Do you keep your pee in jars around the house? What difference does it make if it smells funny? It's going down the toilet.

true, but asparagus makes it smell fuckin hilarious.

Yeah.

I never really notice how my pee smells when I'm pee cuz it's just pee and totally not noteworthy.

When I pee after eating asparagus, it's like "Hey, asparagus pee."

That's the difference.

especially if you eat kinda late and it sits in your bladder all night...then it's really stinky....but funny

When we have asparagus,
I like to have a race for the
first one to have asparagus pee.
'Woo Hoo, asparagus pee!'
On a side note, just before I had
to take my drug test, I ate bunches of asparagus
My little way of sticking it to the man.

Asparagus, asparagus, you put us on the table,
Asparagus, asparagus, you make us feel more able.

I'm from the South, lived here all my life. I only eat it fried, and if there's a hint of slime on it I'm not touching it. You've got to burn the motherfuckers, which my mom does.

Other "Southern" foods I'm not into:

Fried green tomatoes
Grits (kinda burned out on it)
Fried squash
Butter Beans
Collard Greens (With a gun to my head, maybe).
Pig's feet
Any varmint-type animal