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>From: "Tank"
>
>This year, I have noticed a number of grocery
>stores placing trash cans next to their sweet
>corn displays. This is for those people who
>feel it necessary to strip their corn there in
>the store. Are they placed there because the
>stores are knuckling under to rude people who
>peel back the ears to check them? What happened
>to being able to judge an ear without destroying
>it? What happened to simply taking the luck of
>the draw with your produce, as the human race
>has for thousands of years?
>
>Am I the only person who dislikes this trend?
>
>--
>Tank

Nope.

I've always seen folks pull back husks to check quality, but this was the first
year I ever saw folks actually shucking their corn at the grocery store. There
was no trash can. We had to wait to reach the corn bin because the pair
(father and daughter) stood directly in front of it and took about 10 minutes
to shuck 2 dozen ears, tossing the shucks and silk and stems on the floor and
back into the pile of ears.

When we asked the produce dept. guy what was up with those folks shucking their
corn in the grocery store, he said it was a regional thing or something.

It would have been less annoying if there'd been a trash can around...

Agnes