Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 01:51:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: dicconf <dicconf at radix.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: No shucking, please
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On Wed, 30 May 2007, Ted White wrote:

> 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.

There are even breeds of corn that do the reverse of the norm:
they are starchy _until_ picked, then the starch turns to sugar.

> 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.

Yup.

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

It's corn, it's just different.  Like fake maple flavor: it's not bad in
itself, but it is absolutely nothing like real maple.

=Tamar