"I ate so much okra I slid out of bed!" (1930s? East Texas?)

[Grant Barrett]

Country comedian Jerry Clower also had a routine about two dogs
eating "slick, slimy boiled okra." It went down so fast that they
both thought the other one got it all and they commenced to fighting.

Grant Barrett
Double-Tongued Dictionary
http://www.doubletongued.org/
editor at doubletongued.org

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