American corn - too sweet ?

[aneeshm]

I recently bought some corn which was imported from the USA , to see what it was like . The first time I tried it , I had it roasted over a naked flame , until it was nicely done and just a little bit blackened on the outside . I then spread a mixture of lemon juice , salt , and ghee over it , and tried to eat it .

My first reaction was a "WTF ?" , because it turned out to be too sweet . I then tried eating one boiled . Turned out to be still too sweet . The soup I made out of them , however , was good . From then on , I've used it ony for soup .

I know that , thanks to the USA's crazy agricultural imoprt restrictions , most people on 'poly will not have tasted Indian corn , but I'd like the opinion of people from countries other than the USA about how their local produce compares to US imports , specially with respect to corn .

[General Ludd]

There are different kinds of corn which have varying degrees of sweetness. That said, imported foods are never as good as localy grown.

[The Mad Monk]

We like our corn sweet.

My current favorite is the Peaches N' Cream variety, which is so named both for it's sweetness, and for the presence of both white and yellow corn on each ear.

It seems to be a popular choice for the smaller Kansas farms this year.

[molly bloom]

Yet again the Left blames Bush for ......


I like grilled corn on the cob with tomato salsa or chutney.

[chequita guevara]

Indian corn means something entirely different here.

[Seeker]

Southwestern Ontario has particularly sweet corn, I've noticed.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Mmmmm... sweet corn. Though non-sweet can be good too .

[Last Conformist]

I rarely eat maize, and when I do it's usually in the form of heavily salted popcorn.

AFAIK, they don'tgrow any here, but no idea where the imports may be from.

[Seeker]

What the heck is this 'maze'?

It sounds like furriner food to me....

Seriously what do eurocoms call wheat if wheat is corn?

[Max Webster]

I love this time of the year, fresh corn, fresh vegetables out of the garden.

Bacon and tomatoes sandwiches.. yum

btw..what is American corn? Never heard of it.

Anyway the sweet corn grown locally is not too sweet. I like it very much.

[Last Conformist]

Originally posted by Seeker
What the heck is this 'maze'?

It sounds like furriner food to me....

Seriously what do eurocoms call wheat if wheat is corn?

Here, "corn" means barley, "wheat" means wheat, and "maize" means maize, the way God intended it.

[Ari Rahikkala]

I live in Finland. What do you mean by "local produce"?

[SlowwHand]

Maize is cattle feed, and it's called sweet corn for a reason.

[Tingkai]

The sweetness of corn depends on how long ago it was picked. The minute it is picked, the sugar (glucose?) starts turning to starch.

That said, people in North America, not just the US, like sweet corn. In Hong Kong, people like eating cold corn out of the can, and having lived here a while, I started to like it too.

And by the by, lemon juice, salt and ghee on corn sounds mighty tasty. I'll have to try it.

[DanS]

To be clear, there are basically two kinds of corn: (1) "sweet corn," "corn on the cobb", etc. that is sweet; and (2) corn that is grown to be made into corn meal or cattle feed and isn't very sweet.

The vast majority that is grown falls into the second category, but at this time of year, people eat sweet corn either grilled or boiled. Serve hot. Melt lots of butter on it and put salt on it. Eat it off the cobb.

Yum.