Lady Finger

oh. We just make dishes and soup.

@Druscilla34 In England we call those "sponge-fingers", "boudoir biscuits" or "boudoir fingers" and they are sometimes known by the posh name "savoiards", especially when used in Tiramisu.

@PhredWreck haha yep.

It's also known as Okra and is called Gumbo in some southern states and the English speaking Caribbean. It's the unripe seed pod which is eaten and it's usually cooked in stews and soups. The flowers are something like Hibiscus or Hollyhock and also many other kinds of mallow.

@fruitcakeliz Wikipedia may be slightly misleading, in this case, then! Okra is often used as a thickener in gumbo and may conceivably have been the original thickener. Since the name for okra in Bantu languages is ngombo or something similar, it is possible that the name for the dish came from the Bantu name for the (then) principal ingredient. The word 'okra' comes from the Igbo (another African language), so both words may have been used, depending on where the slaves came from. My guess is that, in time, 'gumbo' came to be used for the dish and 'okra' for the vegetable.

@owlwings OHH Okra....i know what that is.....just have never seen it growing..and never heard of it called lady fingers before... (not called GUMBO......but used in gumbo.....)....i have people b***hing at me at my store in northern new England because we do not carry this product in the frozen veggie section any more......