On Jul 13, 1:00*pm, Janet Baraclough >
wrote:
> The message >
> from Mark Thorson > contains these words:
>
> > Many Europeans have a strong dislike for corn.
>
> * *Unless you count *polenta, which has been eaten for centuries in
> European countries. Or cornflakes.

When did Italians start making polenta with corn, anyway? Probably
not in the 15th Century, despite what googling for "history of
polenta"
turns up. (Maybe they meant the 1500s when they said the 15th
Century.) Still, that's a good 400 years.

Wikipedia suggests that they're still making polenta with a variety
of grains, although corn seems by far to be the most common thing
used.

Cindy Hamilton