> cbellers driveled:
>>(Curly Sue) said:
>>
>> I never understood the quest for sweetness in corn, either by variety
>> development or how it's cooked. It's a vegetable; I don't want it to
>> be sweet.
>
>Not to quibble, but corn is a grain, not a vegetable 
Actually culinarilly "sweet corn" is considered a vegetable. Other varieties
are used as grain corn... of course corn is a plant (a grass) therefore all
corn is vegetable.... in fact all plant grain is vegetable.
Encyclopędia Britannica
"Commercial classifications, based mainly on kernel texture, include dent corn,
flint corn, flour corn, sweet corn, and popcorn. Dent corn is characterized by
a depression in the crown of the kernel caused by unequal drying of the hard
and soft starch making up the kernel. Flint corn, containing little soft
starch, has no depression. Flour corn, composed largely of soft starch, has
soft, mealy, easily ground kernels. Sweet corn has wrinkled, translucent seeds;
the plant sugar is not converted to starch as in other types. Popcorn, an
extreme type of flint corn characterized by small, hard kernels, is devoid of
soft starch, and heating causes the moisture in the cells to expand, making the
kernels explode. Improvements in corn have resulted from hybridization, based
on crossbreeding of superior inbred strains."
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