Jinx Minx wrote:
> "George Shirley" > wrote in message
> . ..
>> Jinx Minx wrote:
>>> "Lynn from Fargo Ografmorffig" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>> On Jun 30, 8:44 pm, "gloria.p" > wrote:
>>>>> George wrote:
>>>>>> The yellow/white corn seems to be the most popular here but a few grow
>>>>>> yellow corn. I remember asking at one stand and they said everyone
>>>>>> wants
>>>>>> the white or white/yellow.
>>>>> The yellow corn of my childhood was very starchy and not nearly as
>>>>> sweet
>>>>> as today's yellow and white hybrids or plain white corn. IMO, the
>>>>> yellow, when only slightly over-ripe, tastes very starchy.
>>>>>
>>>>> The best tasting corn I have ever eaten in my life was a bicolor hybrid
>>>>> from the San Pascual Valley in northern San Diego County.
>>>>>
>>>>> gloria p
>>>> That yellow corn you remember from your childhood was probably what my
>>>> mom called "field corn". I loved it too. When it was really young it
>>>> was just a little sweet - not starchy just "veggie". The new sweet
>>>> corn is too sweet. That's from all that damn "high fructose corn
>>>> syrup" I bet! Especially now that I'm cutting waay back on salt. I
>>>> keep putting more butter on so it doesn't taste so dang sweet!
>>>> Lynn in Fargo
>>>> Eating all the sweet corn I can get my (bad) teeth on while I can
>>>> because they're ALL coming out July 27th. (Full anesthesia, thank
>>>> Alex!)
>>> Isn't "field corn" the tough corn that's fed to animals? I didn't think
>>> that it was edible "as is" on the cob. Someone with a farming background
>>> correct me if I'm wrong?
>>>
>>> Jinx
>> You're wrong, at the "milk" stage field corn is excellent for roasting
>> ears, boiling, making cream of corn, etc. It gets tough after it drys on
>> the stalk and is harvested for animal fodder. Even then it can be ground
>> for corn meal.
>
> Thanks for that clarification for me. I knew that it was used for cornmeal
> and other ground corn products, I just didn't think it was edible as a fresh
> cob variety. At least, that's what I was told when I was young!
>
> Jinx
>
>
All we ever ate back on the farmette was field corn, as mentioned,
specifically Truckers Favorite yellow. Excellent human fodder at the
milk stage, excellent animal fodder at the dry stage and not so much
corn sugar as to make it taste so sweet it made your teeth hurt. Most of
the "modern" sweet corns are entirely too sweet to suit me.

Will order some Truckers Favorite seed corn this fall for planting next
spring. Only problem with the stuff is it makes huge stalks and takes up
a lot of room. On the farm the stalks were ground up and siloed for
silage, cattle food. No cattle here.

Got smart one time and planted six rows of Truckers Favorite in our
garden in Texas. Got even smarter as I was working in a fertilizer plant
at the time making ammonium nitrate fertilizer. Brought home a gallon
jug of the liquid stuff. Lab tech told me to cut it 50:1 to use in the
garden. Being a brilliant scientist myself I used it pure. Had corn
stalks fifteen feet tall, three inches in diameter and not an ear of
corn in sight. Somewhere I have a picture of my 5'3" daughter standing
beside the row. If I can find it I will post it on my Flickr page.