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Re: CHAT: corn (was: [CHAT] Aussie terminology question)

From:Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>
Date:Thursday, February 10, 2005, 7:05
On Wednesday, February 9, 2005, at 12:31 , Mark J. Reed wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 07:33:12PM +1100, Tristan McLeay wrote: >>> Maize is also known as 'sweet corn' or 'corn on the cob' when eaten >>> by humans. But when grown as cattle-feed it's always maize. >> >> Oh, is that all sweet corn was? I'd always presumed it was a special >> sort of (maize) corn, and the one preferred by people. Just like >> there's lots of forms of apples. It's more than frequently enough >> called 'sweet corn' here... > > No, you were correct, Tristan. The kind of maize eaten by people, "sweet > corn", is in fact a different variety, or set of varieties. The ears are > larger than the variety usually used for animal feed.
That I can well believe. The stuff grown by farmers over here is IME for cattle feed. I have known individuals grow the sweet corn variety in their gardens, but I am not aware of any commercial growing of the stuff here - maybe the British climate is not the best for it.
> Within "sweet > corn" there are subdivisions based on color: yellow, white, or mixed, > and the mixed has a special name which I can't recall at the moment.
Over here it is always IME the yellow variety. Ray =============================================== http://home.freeuk.com/ray.brown ray.brown@freeuk.com =============================================== Anything is possible in the fabulous Celtic twilight, which is not so much a twilight of the gods as of the reason." [JRRT, "English and Welsh" ]

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