<p>Once okra is fried it is not slimey. It you cook it well, it can be rather crunchy. But remember - just coat it, don’t put a thick batter on it. My brother uses a mix of flour and cornmeal and spices.</p>
<p>Love fried okra. It’s sort of a pain to cook at home(messy) but we get it when we go out. Lots of restaurants here have it. </p>
<p>Fried okra was served as a veggy choice in my kids elem. school cafeteria. S2 would give up dessert (or another food choice) to get double portion of fried okra. </p>
<p>When I took home ec. in high sch. we learned to make pickled okra. It was pretty awful.</p>
<p>The longer you cook okra, the less slimy it gets. I LOVE pickled okra, but I pretty much like pickled anything. </p>
<p>Is milk cake a southern dessert or is it made everywhere?</p>
<p>When we were living in Azerbaijan - they picked everything…cucumbers, carrots, eggplant, etc. I didn’t like that sort of thing growing up and certainly didn’t develop a taste for it as an adult. </p>
<p>But good fried okra…yum…</p>
<p>^^colmom…is that Three Milks Cake as in Tres Leches Cake? I make it but it is Latin American as far as I know. I don’t know another cake that is called Milk Cake.</p>
<p>Tres Leches??? C’mon, gimme an RC Cola and a Moon Pie!</p>
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<p>I had the same question as silververstersmom. Torta Tres Leches involves soaking cake in sweetened, condensed milk. I’ve never heard of “milk cake”, but it wouldn’t surprise me if that’s what it turned out to be. It also wouldn’t suprise me if some version of a dish popular in the Latin Caribbean made it into the American South.</p>
<p>Topped with whipped cream? Yep, same thing. Super delicious. I should have known its origins, considering where I live. Of course, I guess it is possible that country cooks developed the same cake on their own with the Latin America version becoming more famous. Who cares!? It’s still a family favorite.</p>
<p>colmom, my grandfather used to take a large mug of cold milk, put cornbread in it, and eat it with a spoon. Is that what you mean by “milk cake”? I don’t remember what he called it. He considered it quite a treat, although it never appealed to me but I’m not a dunking anything in my milk kind of person. I always thought of it as another one of his rural Mississippi country oddities that he ate rather than just as a southern dessert because I’ve never known anyone else that ate it. He loved it though!</p>
<p>Are snowballs as popular in the north and midwest as they are in the south? I live about 10 miles from work and realized yesterday that I pass 3 snowball stands on my way home. Of course, it’s getting so hot here already that there were lines at all 3 stands. My H stood in line 45 minutes in the heat to get snowballs for us last weekend! D was studying abroad in Paris last summer and said the first thing she wanted to do when she returned was go get a snowball. Crazy southerners we are.</p>
<p>In the northeast (espec Phila) we have water ice. Water ice is more popular than snow cones, although they have snow cones, too. Water ice is wonderful- also called Italian Ice. </p>
<p>There is a popular road race (running) in our area called Moon Pie/RC Cola 10 miler. There is a Moon Pie festival in connection with it in the small town of Bell Buckle, TN. It is so much fun. You can have fried Moon Pies!</p>
<p>We used to eat moon pies all the time as kids! My mom would have her weekly appointment at the “beauty shop” and we’d go next door to a little local grocery and get moon pies. I remember RC colas too! I always thought moon pies were a southern thing but I guess not!</p>
<p>I’ve had italian ice in Chicago and it was delicious! Every time we visit Chicago my H has to have Johnny’s italian beef sandwich and italian ice!</p>
<p>I’ve really enjoyed this thread. It’s made me remember alot of fond memories.</p>
<p>P.s. just dawned on me you said the moon pie race is in Tennessee so I guess it is a southern thing! I never heard of fried moon pies though so that’s a new one to me!</p>
<p>Moon pies are available outside the South, and RC Cola, too, but treating them as food groups unto themselves is definitely a Southern thang.</p>
<p>You know what I miss, near-Midwestern boy that I am? Vernor’s Ginger Ale, out of Michigan. It made Canada Dry and such like taste like the sugar water it was. Only the wide availability of Caribbean ginger beer now has taken away my yearning for oak-aged, sharp-kicked Vernor’s.</p>
<p>Do not despair JHS – Vernor’s is still out there. I see it when I return to my midwest roots – though it’s not widely available. It’s still good, but not as good as when I was sitting on the dunes overlooking Lake Michigan.</p>
<p>I got a Diet Vernor’s (I know, I know) last week at the grocery store here in TN.</p>
<p>I live near San Francisco, and my parents are HORRIFIED of me going to the South (of whose schools form almost half of the schools I’m applying to).</p>
<p>Is it the people? No.</p>
<p>The culture? No.</p>
<p>The moral values? No.</p>
<p>They worry that if I go to school in the South, my weight will explode as I gorge on delicious but somewhat unhealthy Southern food.</p>
<p>Damn health nut parents. -_-</p>
<p>Tell them sushi has made it to Tennessee!</p>
<p>I see more overweight people in Maine than in Texas.</p>
<p>Altsustar- tooooo funny. But that’s as good a reason as any to give for not wanting your student to go so far away.</p>
<p>They really don’t mind distance. As soon as you need to fly somewhere, it’s pretty much all the same anyways. There’s not much difference between a two hour flight and a five hour flight. Other than two hours.</p>
<p>The only major local schools within driving distance of me, are of course, UCB and Stanford. So “local” schools got completely ruled out. The closest school we’ve considered was…USC. And it’s a plane-flight away. </p>
<p>I decided to try for a few Southern schools, simply because I’ve got no competition coming from my area. A majority of the students here would simply refuse to apply to a school outside of HYPSM, and the UC system, and ill-gotten stereotypes about the South scare away the rest. I’ve got a better chance of getting than applying to say…Stanford (where 2-3 students out of roughly 200 applicants get in every year). I’d rather apply to somewhere where I had no idea about my chances, than apply to somewhere where I could predict rejection.</p>
<p>Plus, food is nice (parents will kill me though), and the weather would be nice… in the winter… and pretty much just the winter. I’ll miss In&Out though. :p</p>
<p>Thinking about sushi makes me queasy. My parents love Japanese food and force it on me. It’s not that I don’t like it or anything, but eating Asian food really starts sucking when you have vegans in the family.</p>
<p>Catfish sushi. :D</p>