h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Maybe it's a picture on the mantlepiece of Cinderella's house. Rene Auberjonois, as the prince, comes in with a glass slipper in his hand....

Looking at the green bit that is still connected, I would say eggplant/aubergine. I never saw one that big though.

It has been a long time ago that I used okra in cooking.

I don't want to even think about cooking okra. I tried it once and was underwhelmned

I'm about to go off and use some frozen okra in my soup. Try getting the frozen cut okra for a first try - it's already deslimed.

If you add it to soup it will naturally thicken and add flavour to it. Also: then you can call it gumbo. Gumbo is an African word for okra, but in the Lower Mississippi region it refers to any dish made with okra.

Cut okra is also delicious tossed lightly in a mixture of corn meal and flour and fried.

Okay, I get that 'eggplant' means aubergine, but isn't an okra a gurt big ?

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Where I come from they pronounce it 'okry'.

On the other hand, they don't pronounce the gre-at big at all. That's because nobody in those mountains for generations had seen a body of water larger than the Calfkiller River until my dad crossed the Atlantic on the Queen Mary when it was a troopship.

You mean those okras that try to sink boats for a hobby?

In that folk song, the Shenandoah sounds like a pretty big river, no? Not as wide as the Missouri or the Ohio, but it must have made an impression on the person singing the song

In the folk song, the river referred to is the Missouri. Although there is a Shenandoah River that flows into the Potomac, it's not part of the song. The song is about an Oneida chief by the same (or similar) name.

'Oh Shenandoah,
I love your daughter,
Away, you rolling river.
Way, we're bound away
Across the wide Missouri.'

Shenandoah river is mentioned in "Country roads" (among others, I guess)

That's because West Virginia is near the Shenandoah Valley. And I guess John Denver had a map.

John Denver was a very successful song writer. However, he was a bogus 'country boy' in the grand tradition of Tin Pan Alley.