In "fried green tomatoes", was the old lady Idgie Threadgoode?

Yes. This was confirmed when she put th honey on the grave.

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This is complicated. Upvote for yes. Downvote for n

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Nope, stays the way I had it. This way the people who ordinarily downvote all my posts will have to at the very least claim to have seen "Fried Green Tomatoes" to do so.

Ninnie and Idgie were supposedly the alter-egos of each other. Read the book and it gets even more complicated. There is also an implied lesbian relationship between Ruth and Idgie in the book. If the old lady was Idgie, and as the movie implies, Idgie and Ninnie were actually the same person, then she married her own brother if you go back and rewatch the movie and pay attention to what's said by her. That would also (possibly) explain why Idgie/Ninnie's son, Albert, was born "not right and with a mind that would never develop past the age of 5"...Albert would have been the product of an incestuous relationship between a brother and sister who had married each other.

This does a great job of explaining it.

You're right. Than it has to be. I like the alter egos thought. I can see that. And even as a kid you could tell there was some lesbian feelings going on between Idgy and Ruth.