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Originally posted by Magpie0001
The food is amazing, chinken things, grits, IHOP, chitlins, ocre! I fucking love ocre (sp?), Mexican food that enduces nosebleeds, Bubblegum flavour ice-cream, Massive piņa colada flavour slushies, meatloaf.
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It is "okra" and it is good deep fried or in gumbos (stews with a roux base usually with seafood as a main ingredients). Plain ole okra by itself is a strange vegetable because it comes with its own mucus. What other vegetable can claim that.
I think that the relative ignorance towards geography that you see in the US is because of the distances involved. In Europe, you can cross borders for a weekend trip. Most in the US will never visit another country. Most who do, do so as a "trip of a lifetime" that they save years for.
Foriegners are always "exotic" to members of the opposite sex and they are seen as a threat by members of the same sex. I have heard that Americans experience the same phenomenon in Europe.