Catharine Vinson wrote (in response to my asking how this is for eating in the garden): > Most people I know don't like okra raw from the plant. I do, though. This > one is outstanding to munch. It saves the bother of cooking - or accumulating a few at a time on those rare occasions when you aren't getting buckets full. Suppose I acquired the taste by biting questionable pods to see whether they were keepers. Guys do a lot of slightly disgusting things like that. Especially - heh - if they don't have a whole lot of counter space. BK--- suspects nobody wants to know about the handy-dandy method he's sometimes used to reduce soup vegetables, etc. to "bite-size pieces"