Will you eat that?

[Jerod Broussard]

Got a jar of pickled okra in the fridge at work.

[Histrix]

Will refuse to eat boiled okra under any circumstance. Will grudgingly eat a few pieces of fried okra if I have to.

Will eat catfish if i have to but it's not something I would choose for myself. It's nothing to do with it being a scavenger, I just don't much like the taste.

[Allon]

Histrix, Who is forcing you too eat foods you don't like? Stop now before it gets out of control!

BTW, I happen to like both okra & catfish. I don't consume either very often though. I have limits too.

Bon chance!

[Bkhuna]

Okra is similar to nopales in that the slime goes away when it's cooked. I wouldn't eat it when I was little but I look forward to it when it's in season.

I guess my favorite way to eat it is cooked with stewed tomates and onions and served over white rice, topped with crumbled bacon.

Catfish can be sublime if caught in clean water.

[Purc]

I have never seen a cat fish. What kind of rod and reel does it use?........I'm sorry!

[Panhead John]

You oughtta be ashamed of yourself….🙄 🥸

[Allon]

Wow. Even I have seen catfish way up here in Massachusetts...
My uncle would fillet them and put salt on the fillets and they would start to curl up. Pretty cool stuff for a 5 year old. It was like magic.

[Hulagn1971]

Okra is delicious fried (sliced and battered first), add a little salt and ketchup on the side. I love fried catfish. Black eyed peas are delicious with stewed tomatoes. We eat that on New Year's with collard greens and cornbread. Okra can also be used as a vegetable addition in a stew for thickening. It needs to be sliced, never whole. Left whole it's slicker than goose sh*t. Gross.

[Panhead John]

All right Bro! Another fellow okra with ketchup lover..

[dubob]

Is it customary to eat such things where you live?

No! But I would eat every last morsal of that meal in a heartbeat Brother! My MUST VISIT restaurant in Las Vegas, NV is none other than The Hushpuppy. And the meal chosen is the All You Can Eat Catfish with jalapeno hush puppys and do not forget the fried green tomatoes.

[jfmorris]

We eat all 3 of those in Alabama and Georgia. When I was a kid in Georgia okra was always in our rather large garden (which I hated weeding!). Black eyed peas are a southern staple, and a MUST eat on New Year's Day (for luck), along with collard or turnip greens for wealth.

[LA Pork Butt]

Or cabbage for money in the New Year!

[jfmorris]

I hadn't heard the cabbage - always greens here.

[Panhead John]

Black eyed peas for good luck in the New Year….cabbage is big here in Texas too.

[SheilaAnn]

Catfish-yes
okra-no thank you
hushpuppies-sometimes
black eyed peas-hell yes
collard greens-yes
chicken fried steak-yes please!

And to troymeister point I never learned of any of these foods until we moved to Dallas from SW side of Chicago

[troymeister]

It is true, Traveling can be our best teacher.

[SheilaAnn]

Oak Smoke I believe in a previous life I was from the Deep South!

[SheilaAnn]

Oak Smoke fwiw, I graduated from north mesquite high school!