Things I Ate Growing Up In Oklahoma

[Pink2000]

I saw this trend on tiktok and decided to make a myTake about my favorite foods I ate growing up in Oklahoma.

Collard and turnip greens

This is always eaten with a green onion, hot sauce, and vinegar and it is so delicious !

Beef Neck Bones

Sometimes we would eat this barbecued, smoked, or stewed

Anasazi Beans

These beans are pretty common in Latin cuisine from my understanding but they were a staple in my household

Okra, tomatoes, and rice

Many people dislike okra due to its slimy texture but it’s really good with rice or deep fried

Black eyed peas and Cornbread

I personally preferred Anasazi beans over black eyed peas. We would often eat this on new years for good luck

Fried Potatoes and Onions

This is the perfect side dish for breakfast or dinner. It pairs nicely with eggs, and biscuits or a fried pork chop.

Cucumber Salad

This is my favorite snack. I make it year round and it’s so good. Sometimes I make it with vinegar and sugar or I’ll use Italian dressing

[Anonymous]

That is about the same kind of food I ate growing up in Florida. I still eat this type of food. I like collards and turnip greens but I like mustards better. Ate a lot okra and tomatoes and fried okra. Also ate okra cooked in the black eyed peas or field peas. We ate a lot of lima beans and Great Northern beans and rice. Pan fried corn bread goes with every thing including cooked smashed rutabagers cooked with bacon. The neck bones were cooked with rice. My favorite thing I ate growing up was fried beef tripe.

[Pink2000]

Tripe is something my great grandmother and her mother would eat. I’ve never had it. We also cook neck bones with rice as well we eat Lima beans too. For the longest I didn’t know Lima beans and butter beans were the same.

[Opinion Owner]

Yes butter beans are a type of lima beans. Butter beans are usually speckled. Another thing we used to eat was swamp cabbage.

[DiegoO]

I never heard or saw Anazasi beans. In my country we commonly eat read beans. There's a typical dish that's basically rice and beans, mix together. It's called: gallopinto. If I am not wrong, in the Caribbean region of my county they use coconut milk to make it.

[DiegoO]

*red beans.

I am from LATAN

[DiegoO]

LATAM*

[DiegoO]

One question: how do you cook the okra?

[DiegoO]

Here it's añmpst imposible to find

[Pink2000]

Oh really? What country are you from? We pickle the okra, fry it, stew it. It’s very good.

[DiegoO]

Nicaragua

[midnightmoon05]

I have had all the above. I like them all. It’s real food.
Hard to find collar greens around here.
thank you for sharing.

[Pink2000]

Thankyou

[kacr10]

I live in South Carolina and some of those things are really close to what I eat here. NEVer liked collards green

[Pink2000]

I’m more of a mustard and turnip girl

[kacr10]

srry gurl but nope i like plain regular veggies

[Pink2000]

I enjoy certain veggies. I’m more of a fruit eater

[kacr10]

yeah me too
what fruits
🍓🍍🥭🍌🍒🍑🍇🥥🍉

[Pink2000]

Strawberries, papaya, lychee, pineapple, grapes, blood oranges.

[DizzyDesii]

I like collards but not turnips nor mustards. Those neck bones look good but i still hate them. I’d like to try the beans. I hate okra, black eyed peas and salad

[razelove]

Except the cucumber salad those don't seem any different from things I grew up eatting in Louisiana. I'd imagine that because of availability the frequency of them would be different though, like we certainly eat way more seafood down here.

We also eat mirlitons compared to cucumbers, they taste about the same, but mirlitons are bigger and require zero effort to grow in the wetlands. I've never seen them in a store though. Sometimes diced, sometimes stuffed.

Cucumbers and salads come from the store, so why not just buy a salad.

[PBandJ_Nerd]

I love fried okra and cornbread. Fried potatoes and onions also are good with smoked sausage with ketchup on top (comfort food that we make at home once in a while).

[Haha456]

hello from New York City. That stuff definitely still looks like some dishes from the 1800s oregon trail. Kinda different from the stuff we eat here. but people over there where you live don't eat commercial food. Healthier...

[strateguy632]

i dont understand why people serve bones in soup or neck bones or "spare" ribs?

[Pink2000]

They have a lot of meat

[exitseven]

My ex girlfriend was from okalhoma. she used to eat fried okra and also made grits. She drank Dr. Pepper too.

[Pink2000]

I’ve never had grits

[exitseven]

She made them a couple of times. They were good. I have not had them since.

[MementoMori777]

No lie them beef neck bones look bussin

[Andres77]

well, i'm glad i grew up in Minnesota near hispanic immigrants. i ate much better the this bland blech

[Pink2000]

Most of this is soul food. Nothin bland about it.

[Anonymous]

And Rocky Mountain Oysters 🦪. If you know what that is.

Know a great gal from Oklahoma and I can confirm she’s eaten all of it lol.

[Pink2000]

I don’t want any bull balls but everything else is delicious

[Opinion Owner]

lol. I remember I had it once when I was really young because my great grandpa lived on a farm.

My friend she’s eaten it and everyone always seems shocked. Lol.

[Bricealan]

Probably a better diet than what most Americans eat

[najekim]

Wife is from Texas so she eats some of that you listed. I'm from the upper Midwest and 5 out of the 7 items are nasty to me. :)

[Pink2000]

Lmao

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

Thanks for sharing your My Take with us. I love all of them foods, they look so good.

[AnusNdaPainus]

I was onboard until the Anasazi beans

maybe if you said Great Notherns

[Bklynbadboy12]

I love all of that except the okra. So is that the secret to your curvy figure 😜

[Pink2000]

Yes lmao

[Bklynbadboy12]

Girl it's definitely working!!! Body by soulfood!!!😉😉😉😉

[SonyaLB]

Great take! Lots of delicious food here. Thanks for writing!

[ArrowheadSW]

How about Mountain Oysters?

[Pink2000]

No I have not and will not try those lol

[ArrowheadSW]

I've had them twice... They go well with shrimp cocktail sauce... LOL

[dreamstar72]

I pass on all, more of a chicken person lol.

[Sparkie460]

I like the last two