Great moments in Googling

[naomikritzer]

I was trying to remember the name of a particular pod-like vegetable, and my brain temporarily misplaced the word.

So I googled for "vegetable with snot."

Dingdingdingding! Very first hit. Okra is the word that was on the tip of my tongue (but fortunately, not on my plate.) As a bonus, on the page where it appears, Bush is being compared to the stuff.

I really don't know how I got by for 25 years of my life without Google.

Comments

[maevele.livejournal.com]

with snot?

[naomikritzer]

Okras have snot. Have you ever eaten okra? Seriously, they are the slimiest vegetables ever. I like most vegetables, but okra makes me gag.

[(Anonymous)]

What's wrong with slime? I think it is an insult to okra to link it to Bush.

[Naomi's dad]

[naomikritzer]

I knew you'd be along to defend okra.

Most people don't require an explanation of the problem with slime in their vegetables.

[maggiedr.livejournal.com]

The one way that okra is good to eat is in gumbo. But then, it is surrounded by shrimp, spicy sausage, and oysters, and rice. I have no idea why the okra is there other than tradition.

Okras on my list of vegetables to avoid too, along with peas and lima beans.

[naomikritzer]

Okra is in gumbo as a thickener. We make our gumbo with file instead, but I've had okra-based gumbo that was fine, in part because the okra had pretty much disappeared into a mass of simmering, spicy stew.

I like peas fine. Limas, not so much. I'd rather have a plate full of lima beans than a plate full of okra, though.

[maggiedr.livejournal.com]

What an awful choice. :) Maybe they'd both be improved by deep frying and serving on a stick.

[naomikritzer]

Well, of course. But what isn't?

[sylvia-rachel.livejournal.com]

My mom tried to get me to try okra once. She insists that it's a sterling member of the vegetable community, much maligned by closed-minded people like me.

She has also spent the better part of my life trying to convince me that I would really love eggplant if I would just give it a chance. I've given it lots of chances, and for some reason, every single time, it makes me gag. (I like it fine in babaganouzh, but babaganouzh doesn't taste like eggplant, it tastes like garlic and other lovely things.)

Google is absolutely a necessary tool of life.

[naomikritzer]

I have found one other way I like eggplant. We have a shishkabob dish where you marinate the cubes of lamb in a mixture of olive oil, lemon juice, and garlic. If the eggplant is marinated the same way for about an hour, then skewered and grilled, I find it really pretty good.

I also don't mind eggplant parmesan, but that works on the premise of, "if you drown it in marinara sauce and smother it in cheese, it could be toenail clippings and you probably wouldn't notice."

[cammykitty.livejournal.com]

Could have called me! I knew what vegetable you meant the minute you said "snot" but I wouldn't have been able to do the Bush connection. I just think of Papa Bush and Broccolli since he hated it so much that Davanni's started serving broccolli pizza for a time in his (dis)honor.

[naomikritzer]

After President Bush I took his bold anti-broccoli stand, my mother started serving it every. single. night.

I like broccoli okay, but I got sick of it pretty fast. (At least he didn't take an anti-okra or anti-lima bean stand.)

[cammykitty.livejournal.com]

I could do okra every night for a little while - gumbo, sauteed with tomatoes, spiced to high heaven. Lima beans would have been brutal though!!!

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

So I finally acquired & read book 3 (ah, transatlantic flights and long car trips...). The character with my name turns out to be important! Woot!

(Um, you see why I don't use my real name on the internet. It's a bit identifying.)

[cianne.livejournal.com]

best thing i've heard all day, methinks.