Corn

Yes and yes. If it's typical yellow corn, I look for kernels that are still whitish, indicating that it's not yet ripe. A good test is to pierce a kernel with your thumb nail. If it squirts juice, it's ripe; If not, it's either premature or dead.

If the kernals are shrivelled or undersize or not mature (still white) or wormy - or so ripe they are hard.

Hearlies on Erb Street between Waterloo and St Agatha has the BEST sweet corn in Ontario - bar none!!!

You must be Cherman - it's only recently that Germans eat corn - kernel or on cob - it's always been "pig feed"

Because it tastes good? Grilled, with butter and salt. Yummmmmmm!

If you buy it at a local farm stand, chang=ces are it is very good. Maybe a part of one ear in a season is sub par but usually they are excellent.

I never buy corn at the supermarket.

After you pull the husk back you nibble a little bit to make sure it's sweet...

Not look good might mean the worms got there first or the ear didn't fill out.

I always peel the top of the ear back a little. That is where the worms will usually be, right up by the tassel. I also want to be sure what color it is. A lot of people will shuck it right there in the store, they even have a trash can there just for that but I like to cook it in the husk. These days with all of the chemicals they use, worms and bugs are pretty rare. Back in Maryland with little farms that wasn't the case. Most of the time people would cut the first couple inches off without even looking. They didn't want to know about the worms.

Doesn't it dry out if you shuck it in the store?

They still do in Md.

I've never seen a worm. I've only seen one bad piece of corn that I can remember, only because the rows were uneven and parts had no kernels, but what was there was fine.

If I'm within a half mile of a farm stand, I'll go, but I'm usually not, and I'm usually at the grocery store for other groceries, so I buy corn there.

Not all the way down, since we like to grill it in the husk. But enough to see the first few kernels.

I also examine the silk. If it's dried up, it's been too long since the corn was picked.

Of course.

Flabby kernels. The thumbnail trick works. Shriveled kernels. Insect damage.

Cindy Hamilton

Because it's tasty. A few ears of sweet corn a year won't hurt anybody.

Cindy Hamilton

I had my corn last weekend at the fair. The Rainbow Girls have a booth every year. They get the corn from a little farm in Colorado and it's damn good.

Corn is iffy locally. About the only veggie crop you really depend on is zucchini. Leave your car unlocked and you might find a bag of squash waiting for you.

Also something you don't see is all the chemicals slathered on to kill the worms...

Corn in the stool is cool!

That is the truth. When I was seeing worms in corn it was an old mom and pop farm where they were not doing a lot of spraying. Back in the

Actually, core ear worms have developed resistence to most pesticides. However, chemical methods do seem to work (e.g. a drop of mineral oil on the ear bud suffocates them) and integrated pest management (IPM) techniques developed back in the 80's have also shown good results.

The biggest advancement against wormy corn has been Genetic Modification - making the corn resistant to corn borer so chemicals are less required.

Much of the effective pesticide application is done at the soil level

- "band application" - not sprayed on the plant or "slathered on" AN example in corn is "Mustang".

BigAg and BigFarmChem thoroughly tested GMOs and farm chemicals so they are totally safe for you.  No need to worry.

In fact, it wouldn't hurt to give your dinner a quick spritz of Roundup before serving to make sure you got all the bugs dead.

Only scumbags look. Do you lick a peach then put it back if not to your liking?