PENMART01 wrote in message >...
>>I'm thinking it was pure cheapness - didn't want to pay for
>>the husks - I'm assuming it was being sold by weight. If it
>>was being sold by ear then there's no excuse. The produce
>>people should have said something to them. I'm cheap as the
>>next guy but I would draw the line at shucking the corn in
>>the store. I do sometimes pull off really big, nasty, unusable
>>outer leaves from heads of cabbage that haven't been too well
>>"trimmed" - don't want to pay for that! But corn? I would leave
>>the husks on if for no other reason that to protect the kernels
>>until I got it home to cook it.
>>
>>Kate
>
>Nowhere in the US has unhusked sweet corn ever been sold by weight... it's
sold
>either by count or by volume (bushel). Stupidmarkets encourage folks to
husk
>their corn at the store, otherwise they'll husk it out in the parking lot,
>leaving the husks in the shopping carts. I always break off the end and
remove
>some of the husks, otherwise a dozen ears won't fit into those plastic
bags....
>and the pointy ends would rip the bag open.

Am I the only one in here who *doesn't* use those stupid bags? you're just
going to throw them away when you get home....

and they are useless for corn, sweet potatoes, or anything heavy bought in
quantity anyhow.

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