On Aug 25, 3:05*pm, Mr. Bill > wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:44:43 -0700 (PDT), "
>
> > wrote:
> >I picked up corn at a local stand yesterday - wasn't great! * *I'm
> >cooking up the remainder and notice that there are little indentations
> >on the cob's corn. *I'm thinking that it might be old. *I will be more
> >careful next time. e.
>
> Probably....I will never forget my Grandparents telling us kids that
> if you dropped the corn bringing it in from the field...it was too old
> to cook. * They told us lots of treasured stories..... *
>

Hardworking plant scientists at the University of Illinois developed
corn whose sugars did not turn to starch on the way in from the
garden. Now people complain that corn is too sweet. They must miss the
boiled starchballs of the past.