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Default Silly question..Corn flour/corn starch

On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 18:51:51 +0200, "Jke" >
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>> Judging by the shelves in our local Coles supermarket, most Oz corn
>> flour is now made from friggin' wheat! "Wheaten Corn Flour" for
>> crissake!

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>Wow, how strange.


It's not really strange - Australia is a major wheat-growing country,
not a corn producer. They don't have cornflour for the same reason
that they use cane sugar instead of (ick) cornsyrup.