zxcvbob > wrote in message >...
>
> I usually buy corn from trucks on the side of the road. When I'm
> looking them over, the farmer usually shucks an ear a lot more than I
> would to show me. I examine this a lot more than I do supermarket corn
> to make sure it's really fresh, and I'm a little more careful picking
> out the ears -- but I still don't peel back every ear.
>
> Bob

Nothing better than fresh-from-the field sweet corn. I used to work
for Pioneer Hi-Bred (which at the time was the #1 corn producing
entity in the world). On Friday afternoons the guys from the field
would bring in a whole truck load of ears they had just picked, and
all the employyes could take home as much as they wanted. Our work
group would then trek out to a local state park, fire up the grill
unload our coolers and have a party - drink beer, fly kites and play
fisbee and volleyball. We did this every Friday night through corn
season. I have so many fond memories of that time in my life. The
sweet corn, BTW, was DeKalb.

-L.