Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 11:59:56 -0400
From: Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: No shucking, please
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Mike B. wrote:

>  At 5/30/2007 07:39 AM, dicconf wrote:
>
> > I don't think there's a solution.
>
>  Well, yes, there is.  More than one in fact, but all have various
>  downsides.
>
>  For instance, you could package the corn.  Fewer people would rip
>  open a package than will pull shucks...and a few employees hanging
>  around will limit this even more.
>
>  You could put the corn in an automat-like machine, so you can't get
>  hold of it until after you pay.  For those dissatisfied with what
>  they got, a returns desk would provide an out.
>
>  Raise the price to cover the loses, and advertise that this is the
>  case...let peer pressure happen.

People who buy "fresh" corn in a supermarket have already lost.  It's
not fresh, being days old after picking.  Most of the sugars have
already turned to starches.  The exception is varieties like "Silver
Queen" which are bred to be super-sweet and are like candy when
fresh-picked.  Most people also buy corn which is too mature -- big
tough kernels -- and of course the only way to check on kernel size is
to pull away some of the "shuck."  That supermarkets don't want you to
do this says something about them.

Being a one-time farm boy, I regard supermarket corn, like supermarket
tomatoes, as plastic imitation food for suckers.

--Ted White