Authenticity, RandomnessAugust 16, 2008 10:38 pm
do you know what this is?
students: “what’d you do last night?”
M’Moon: “went to Cracker Barrel to eat fried okra — my favorite!”
blank stares.
M’Moon: “come se dice okra en espanol?”
blank stares. “no se.”
M’Moon: “um…it’s a green vegetable. it kind of looks like a chile but it’s not spicy.”
look of confusion.
one brave student: “green vegetable is broccoli?”
M’Moon: “that is green, but no…”
teacher looks up “okra” via online Spanish-English dictionary.
M’Moon: “1. quingombó (m) okra (f)???”
“no se.”
teacher finds pictures on google; students come look.
shaking of heads.
confusion.
apparently, it’s a vegetable that’s not sold or grown in Mexico…
They just dont know what they are missing! We enjoyed fried okra(home grown) at mommies last night and it was delish. We slid home after eating so much grease (fried pork chops, fried potatos, fried okra, black eyed peas…). What can i say? we’re southern!
Comment by Kelly — August 17, 2008 @ 5:02 pm
that is one of the truths we found we were on our Mexico mission trip . . . they don’t eat veggies
Comment by sebren — August 17, 2008 @ 5:08 pm
that’s because it tastes like hades. if hades had a taste.
Comment by Heather — August 17, 2008 @ 10:40 pm
that is just a cryin’ shame!
Comment by Morgan Collins — August 18, 2008 @ 9:46 am
i am proud that you educate them on the really important topics. we don’t want them to be culinary retards. and heather should be banished from the blogsphere for speaking such blaspheme against okra!
Comment by lindsey — August 18, 2008 @ 11:26 am
how’d you get that job? don’t you know they don’t have okra in mexico? everybody knows that!
Comment by dw — August 19, 2008 @ 11:07 pm
I don’t know if they have okra anywhere but the south. I have had it a few times and each time it was nasty. But I am willing to give it a try again. I do want to say there are tons of veggies in Mexico and in their diet. If you traveled to Mexico on a missions trip and were in a poverty setting they probably did not have fresh anything. But again what third world country has fresh things? And I want to know how does Fried Okra get compared to veggies?
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Comment by whittakerwoman — August 20, 2008 @ 8:21 am
OK, so when I go to Cracker Barrel, I always get a double order of fried okra. Is that wrong? =) Yum. I love living in the South.
Comment by Melissa — August 20, 2008 @ 6:05 pm
I have no convictions about injuring someone over the last bit of fried okra, and even the crumbs left on the serving dish.
Go on @rebeccamoon, learn ‘em about some okra!
Comment by tstaires — August 27, 2008 @ 5:57 pm