Would you eat fried okra and purple-hulled peas with Nelda Burrow?

[??????????]

No, that looks disgusting. I don't like fried okra anyway ever since I had the misfortune of trying it. Also, I don't like to eat with stupid people so that would rule out this Nelda Burrow wench.

You're so smart.

[John Dibble]

I'm not all that fond of fried okra. I'd eat it if I was hungry and it was the only thing to munch on, and it would help if I had some ranch or something else to dip it in, but if there were other options available I'd probably go for them.

As far as the peas, again, not fond, but they look ok for peas/beans or whatever.

[??????????]

As far as the peas, again, not fond, but they look ok for peas/beans or whatever.

They're pretty much no different from black eyed peas.

[Beet]

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[angus]

I'd give it a try.  I usually avoid okra.  My wife loves it.  It's one of her favorite yankee foods.  Maybe it reminds her of something back in the old country.  And they often put little okra cross-sections in stews in those all-you-can-eat buffets.  Especially on the well-known road between Columbus, Mississippi and the Emerald Coast of Florida.  I've sampled the soups with the okra cross-sections, and I don't honestly care for those little okra cross-sections.  They seem slimy.  Snotty.  And I've seen and tasted pickled okra somewhere.  I think that was when I was working at Columbia and living in that tiny but very expensive apartment on 119th street in Manhattan.  I used to love to travel a few blocks north to Harlem and sample the local foods thereabouts.  Okra was a big hit there.  And grits.  And black-eyed peas.  And in one of those little soul places there was a little bottle of pickled okra on all the tables.  A condiment, I suppose.  I found those okras to be snotty as well.

But I'm thinking that if you fry the okra, then you can't tell if the slimy feeling is from the okra snot, or from the oil, because pretty much all deep-fried foods are slimy.  And it was never the taste of okra that put me off, just the snottiness.  So I'd definitely give the fried okra at Nelda's a try.  I'd try her purple-hull peas too.  They look like black-eyed peas, and I know I like them.  I will eat them with a fox and I will eat them in a box and I will eat them in a train and I will eat them in the rain.  But mostly I will eat them with lots of cayenne pepper and butter and diced onions, and that's the way they give it to you north of 125th street in Manhattan.  I reckon I'd like the purple-hull peas with cayenne pepper as well.

[Person Man]

Okra is really good when broiled with vinegar and ham hocks. Same with greens.