One of the major seed companies has left okra out of its print catalog. In the table of contents, it says to go online if you want okra.
Will Big Okra sue the seed company?
Will the United Okra Breeders Association of North Carolina sue to get its lifeblood back into print and on equal footing with those glamour queens, the tomatoes and melons?
Will the Okra Front barricade highways? Will the Okra Patch Weeders Union Local #3 go on strike until ink hits page again and justice is served?
Will the mainstream media even cover okra’s exclusion? Will New Orleans soupmakers join the fray?
Will the entire okra growing industry shrink as okra, already sinking in the polls and dying in popularity, is no longer seen and talked about?
And what can be done besides legal action? Can the president sign an Executive Order mandating equal rights for okra, salsify, turnips, and other unjustly hidden vegetables?
In the meantime, we all suffer under Tomato Supremacy.
You can’t avoid them. In catalogs, in subs, slathered on pizzas, in this salad and that salad, stuffed in the middle of a bologna sandwich, and even in squeezeable plastic bottles as a condiment.
We will not rest until there is squeezy okra in bottles, too!
