okra with no aitch

[darkoshi]

Things I learned about okra from its Wikipedia page:
There's a red variety, which tastes the same as the green one.
The leaves can be cooked and eaten like other greens.
"Okra seeds may be roasted and ground to form a caffeine-free substitute for coffee."
An oil can be pressed from the seeds.

In case you're bored, here's a funny little story (not at all about okra) I came across after reading one about okra:
Mr. Mathrubootham is exasperated with national stupidity
(In sharing that story, I don't mean to make fun of India, as I think just as many people here in the U.S. and elsewhere are fascinated by those kind of videos.)

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Lately Google Maps shows location balloons for hotels when I search on places, so that I can hardly find what I'm looking for, because of the balloons and hotel text covering the map. Does anyone know if there's a way to disable that layer in the options somewhere? I'm viewing it on a computer, not on a phone.

Comments

[nozomi604]

I love okra. I've never seen the leaves sold anywhere; I'll have to give them a try if I ever find some!

[marahmarie]

Best I can guess on the overlay (I don't use Maps enough myself to really know!) is to delete Google search history or delete (or even block) their cookies, or maybe do both (I take a number of steps on the laptop to stop tracking, so I can't really speak to what to do once it happens, but setting CCleaner to wipe everything and setting your browser to dump everything upon exit should clean up whatever can't be prevented).

Opening Maps in a Container (Firefox) might also help (or might not, but you never know until you try). I don't know if Google tracks users across the Web like Facebook does (via a tracking pixel) but containerizing things can't hurt, especially if that's the case.