On Aug 26, 2:01*pm, sf > wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
>
> Never trust a dog to watch your food.

It's sweet corn season here in Ontario - and that's what it was
supposed to be. Field corn. Isn't that for chickens?