Raw corn is typically fed to livestock

[trumad]

and Chimps I guess?

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Kerry declared his enthusiasm for corn by sticking his head out the window of his campaign bus. He waved both hands with corn.

After their simultaneous rallies in Davenport in eastern Iowa, Bush stopped at a farmer's market in nearby Bettendorf and bought some ears of sweet corn.

The president took a bite of one on the spot. "Oh yeah. You don't even have to cook it. It's really good," Bush declared.

Raw corn is typically fed to livestock, but Irvin Anderson, a professor of corn physiology and biochemistry at Iowa State University, said some people liked it raw.

Uh huh...sure they do! :eyes:

[JohnLocke]

1. But we'll hear ad nauseum how "out of touch" Kerry is.

:eyes:

[JohnnyRingo]

2. Buxh does not eat "untested food"

Had the ear been husked and cooked...he would have declined.

And when he went to Iraq on Thanksgiving, they took the rifles from the soldiers.

I think the "King" of America fears his subjects.

[Another Bill C.]

3. The newer varieties of sweet corn

are pretty good eaten raw. Raw potatoes are pretty good, too. Rutabagas, sliced thin and salted, are one of my favorites.

[Nadienne]

6. Peas are good raw.

But potatoes? I think they taste a little like the dirt they came from.

I've never heard of eating sweet corn raw...

[meisje]

4. Corn is sweeter raw and somw people do eat it that way!

Bush connected with the common folk by doing this.


Can't you people find something else to bitch about?

[gratuitous]

5. There's a difference between sweet corn and feed corn

A pity that a city boy from Oregon has to say this, but I did grow up in a more rural area many years ago.

Feed corn is given raw to livestock. It's a stock that isn't very sweet, and you'd toss it back in the bin if it showed up in your supermarket. Practically all corn grown in Iowa and other Corn Belt areas is feed corn (in excess of 90%).

Sweet corn is what's grown for us bipeds. Depending on the variety, it can be eaten in any number of ways, and most of us like it cooked in some fashion. But there are a number of varieties that can be eaten right off the cob, right off the stalk. I don't know if this is true of the particular ear of corn Stupidhead has, but I'm guessing it is.

Let's get after this fucking degenerate waste of humanity who's stolen our country and its dignity for something real. Eating an ear of corn in Iowa doesn't qualify.

[demgrrrll]

8. Next up, George the Carnie Geek bites the head off a live chicken.

He's such a tool.

[central scrutinizer]

7. Time for a Nebraska farm boy to chime in

Raw corn is great. It all depends on the age of the ear. If the kernels are still translucent and light yellow, eating it raw is fine. I have eaten sweet corn, field corn, even popcorn this way. I once had a job moving irrigation pipes in a corn field and would often eat 6-10 ears raw every day. Once the corn moves past that stage, it becomes tougher and starchier. One of the biggest differences in field corn versus sweet corn is the yield - one stalk will yield 5 or more ears where sweet corn usually only yields 1-2 ears per stalk.

[gratuitous]

9. Thanks to the voice of experience!

I come from Nebraska-born parents, but they moved to Oregon many years ago when they realized they were going to have such a wonderful son that they needed to have him born and reared in the best possible surroundings.