Here is another example of a school using food as a mascot. Okra isn't the most well known or eaten vegetable in the world. But, despite its relatively unknown stature, this school chose this ...

Spiny when dry, slippery when wet, and delicious in gumbo, the Fighting Okra is everything a fruit or vegetable mascot should aspire to be. 2. Brutus Buckeye, Ohio State Buckeyes: The most ...

1.) 'Mr. Okra', the Fighting Okra, Delta State University Another fighting vegetable, 'Mr. Okra' is considered the school's unofficial mascot. In the late 1980s, 'Mr. Okra' came into being as the ...

The origin story of the vegetable mascot is pretty hazy and feels like more of a legend. But for years, club officials have stuck with his general timeline: Before he made his first appearance on ...

Even though Delta State's official mascot is the Statesmen, this is far cooler. Not sure how many vegetable mascots exist in college sports, but this has got to be one of the greatest. The George ...

The onion proposal had garnered so much attention that, until Thursday, Google searches returned official-looking results claiming that the onion was, in fact, Oregon’s vegetable mascot.