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Skriven 2011-08-15 16:01:08 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av Dave Drum
Ärende: RE: Corny
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Aloha Dave!
-> 
->  ->  hn> I've had corn picked and put right in the
->  ->  hn> boiling water...and to tell you the truth
->  ->  hn> I don't think there's that much difference
->  ->  hn> if it's cooked the same day. And when I
->  ->  hn> freeze it it does not matter anyway.
->  ->  hn> I would not waste the space to grow
->  ->  hn> corn, for the amount of corn I'd get
->  ->  hn> from my back yard it's not worth it.
->  ->
->  -> That's true unless one is going for the "extra sweet" varieties. They
will
->  -> lose some sweetness if they sit very long (more than a few hours 
which
->  -> is pretty much what you said). Those who *claim* that they can taste 
the
->  -> difference are lumped; in my mind, with the people who *always* know 
what
->  -> is best for others. But, seldom for themselves.
-> 
->  hn> Yep! I'm not the biggest fan of the
->  hn> super sweet corn anyway, and when
->  hn> I go out to buy corn (not very often
->  hn> anymore) I look for the less sweet
->  hn> varieties (which are getting harder
->  hn> to find). The grower where Anne and
->  hn> I used to get 50# sacks of corn for
->  hn> $2 a sack has been converted into a
->  hn> golf course and a gated community.
->  hn> A waste of some of the best growing
->  hn> soil in the world if you ask me!
-> 
-> It's the (current) way of the world - someone sniffed a profit and offered 
the
-> landowner an obscene amount of money for his land. Which was then 
chopped up
-> and sold piecemeal to other doofi for even more money.
-> 
Yep...sad to say but you're spot on with that.
Here, we have a long flat valley with over
300 feet (more in places they say) of prime
topsoil and they keep paving it over for 
strip malls and truck depots. What used to
be a "lawn farm" of about 1100 acres is 
now an Industrial park with several small
factories, and a UPS hub, FedEX depot 
and such...the only green there now is
the decorative landscaped border just 
beyond the perimeter fence.
 
->  -> Commercial growers who sell to Del Monte or Stokley/Van Kamp or 
Green
->  -> Gigantic, or whomever are usually on contract, like the pumpkin 
growers
->  -> who grow for the world's pumpkin processing centre, Morton, Illinois'
->  -> facility owned by Libby's.
->  
->  -> The buyers often provide the seed, require certain fertilisers and/or
->  -> pesticides/herbicides, and prohibit others. In the case of the pumpkins
->  -> the company even harvests them ... pretty much all the landowner 
does is
->  -> provide dirt and some sweat. And he is paid even if the crop fails.
-> 
->  hn> We don't have much in the way of
->  hn> commercial corn production in our
->  hn> part of the counrty...you're more
->  hn> in the center of that universe! When
->  hn> I came to Washington in the mid '60's
->  hn> most of the land was in small family
->  hn> farms (lots of Japanese truck farms)
->  hn> and daffodil and tulip production. In
->  hn> the years since then it's moved from
->  hn> farms to paved over malls, strip malls,
->  hn> huge factories, and less and less
->  hn> agriculture..sad situation.
-> 
-> See my above comment about the place you used to buy corn.
->  
Yup.

->  -> Me, I used to prefer "field" corn to the sweet varieties. And almost 
right
->  -> up to the "dent" stage. My granddad called it "horse corn" ... and he 
liked
->  -> it, too. But, by the time I get to the Affordable Dentistry clinic the
->  -> sweet corn on the cob season will have ended - I will have to be 
content
->  -> with frozen or canned niblets.
-> 
->  hn> I too prefer the less sweet corn.
->  hn> And I like fried corn, and parched
->  hn> corn as well. Back in my hunting days
->  hn> (all the way back to high school) I'd
->  hn> take a sack of parched corn along to
->  hn> eat all day. If I didn't have corn to
->  hn> parch I'd make hushpuppies or
->  hn> corn cakes to take along.
-> 
-> I just confirmed something I had thought for years - the Corn Nuts on the
-> snack-foods rack *ARE* parched corn. Anyone can buy them down the 
corner
-> convenience store -- if they are prepared to take the salt hit. And their 
teeth
-> are sound. Those crunchy kernels can (and have done) break a tooth.
->  
I never let mine get that hard, or that
dry before I parched them...I like em
a bit chewy myself...I think corn nuts
are deep fried though aren't they?
chat with you soon!
hap 
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