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

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
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