On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:09:54 GMT, "l, not -l" > wrote:

>
> On 25-Aug-2010, " > 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.
>
> Are you sure it was sweet corn rather than dent/field corn? Dent corn
> forms indentations in the end of the kernals as it matures and is not as
> sweet tasting as sweet corn. While it is mostly grown to full maturity,
> thus hard kernals, dent corn is sometimes sold immature for eating in the
> manner of sweet corn.

If that's what it was, it should have been advertised as field corn.

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