Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 17:20:37 -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 Sat, 2 Jun 2007, Mike B. wrote:

> At 6/2/2007 02:23 AM, dicconf wrote:
>>> Ted White wrote:
>>
>>>> How do you "improve the freshness"?  The
>>>> only possible way is to get it from the field to the store in less than
>>>> an hour.  Good luck with that.
>>
>> An hour is pushing it; it still has to be paid for and taken home and
>> the water heated.  For best results, pick it in a field no more than
>> ten minutes away.
>
> Perhaps you should just set the field on fire and eat out?

Grow your own, it doesn't take a lot of room.  At least one person once
took a Coleman stove out into the field, boiled the water, and bent
the stalk so the ear was in the water before it was picked.*

=Tamar
*I read it in a book somewhere