From: "Robert MacIntosh" <macbuccfo at msn.com>
To: WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: No shucking, please
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 14:21:57 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Let's hear it for the Farmer's roadside stands. Always better than
supermarket fruits and vegetables.

Bob M.

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