I will eat me some grits, greens and pull a chair up to a whole table of crawfish...well, not anymore...but I would like to think I could -

But - I had someone cook some Okra and tell me it was good so I ate some...and I have had 100 people tell me it was just bad Okra or not cooked right...but it was slimy like snot. Not like an oyster snot type of thing - there is another thing I will eat till I run the screwdriver through my palm - just a damn sickening slime that I can't get past still today.

Gumbo is still gumbo without Okra...just not Okra'd gumbo