that's pretty cool
ya i was wondering if they outsourced to bigger companies to run a more efficient/effective supply chain
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 8 June 2016 21:45 (seven years ago) link
I still buy Redenbacher popcorn. It's the only good stuff my small local grocer sells.
― brownie, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 22:02 (seven years ago) link
Too hard to compete, the big corporate growers can make bigger and better deals and get set prices per bushel as they got the output. They can also get better deals for hardware or seed technology to make it all work. The smaller growers that keep going usually are diversified, they have other side businesses like hogs (since you have seed corn from your farm) or growing fresh produce like tomatoes or letting a cell company put a tower in your fields.
Renting out the land is a steady payday. My uncle is nearly 80 and while he still works pretty much full time, he hasn't farmed himself in quite a few years.
― earlnash, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 22:14 (seven years ago) link
I went back to Ohio a few summers ago and we got some corn from a roadside stand. It seemed to be a lot sweeter than I remember it being when I was a kid. Anyone else notice this?
― kate78, Thursday, 9 June 2016 00:23 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, some of the varieties they've developed in the last few years are downright sugary. I'd like to compare to the sweetest available heirloom corn.
― pleas to Nietzsche (WilliamC), Thursday, 9 June 2016 00:36 (seven years ago) link
I meant ethanol in a general sense, I am on the corn side of it. As in, the company works on the genetics of it, the planting of it, the sale of seed, all kinds of things that are corn
probably some of it ends up at wins' lab, who even knows, it's all over
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 9 June 2016 00:38 (seven years ago) link
no sweet corn though, just "field corn"/seed corn/whatever you call the hard kernels that grow in ear form on a cob in a field. that maize stuff.
corn corn corn
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 9 June 2016 00:39 (seven years ago) link
I eat a lot of sweet corn, though, and yeah, the varieties are really boring and not as varied as I like
There's some lame as variety called "peaches and cream" that has two different colors of kernels that you see at roadside stands and that stuff is way too sweet imo but super popular
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 9 June 2016 00:41 (seven years ago) link
has anyone here tried feed corn? curious if you could make something of it.
― brownie, Thursday, 9 June 2016 01:00 (seven years ago) link
ever had hominy, masa, corn tortillas?
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 9 June 2016 01:01 (seven years ago) link
I wonder if there's a wiki version of the exhibit we have at work with the history of cultivated maize. That shit looked like weird wheat 10,000 years ago before people started selectively breeding it.
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 9 June 2016 01:02 (seven years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zea_%28genus%29#/media/File:Maize-teosinte.jpg
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 9 June 2016 01:03 (seven years ago) link
hominy, masa, corn tortillas, cornbread, polenta
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Thursday, 9 June 2016 01:04 (seven years ago) link
Oh yeah, and Doritos. Ever had Doritos? You're eating that good corn
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 9 June 2016 01:05 (seven years ago) link
Then there's the ever popular and controversial high fructose corn syrup
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 9 June 2016 01:06 (seven years ago) link
sure, have had all of it
didn't know it was "feed corn"
― brownie, Thursday, 9 June 2016 01:08 (seven years ago) link
thx
― brownie, Thursday, 9 June 2016 01:09 (seven years ago) link
mh is your job title "corn technician"
― Sean, let me be clear (silby), Thursday, 9 June 2016 01:10 (seven years ago) link
when i was 5 i took a walk with my dad by a corn field and he picked an ear of corn for us to eat when we got back. we cooked it in the microwave. it was feed corn.
― assawoman bay (harbl), Thursday, 9 June 2016 01:17 (seven years ago) link
I'm more of a wheat guy.
― brownie, Thursday, 9 June 2016 01:18 (seven years ago) link
there's no such thing as bread fyi
noted corn expert
― assawoman bay (harbl), Thursday, 9 June 2016 01:20 (seven years ago) link
lol harbl
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 9 June 2016 01:21 (seven years ago) link
I help wrangle many types of corn (and to a lesser extent, soy, canola, etc) dataEverything from how big plants are to number of kernels to DNA sequence data
I just wish they'd standardize on metric
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 9 June 2016 01:24 (seven years ago) link
oof
― Sean, let me be clear (silby), Thursday, 9 June 2016 01:58 (seven years ago) link
Well this thread went in an odd direction.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 9 June 2016 02:59 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CX0FMDrWEAEnKrv.jpg
― the world over the crotch. (contenderizer), Thursday, 9 June 2016 03:09 (seven years ago) link
http://67.media.tumblr.com/661b40f4347810c3db55adf8314b41e7/tumblr_mg4ks68Qg01qz5rqno1_500.jpg
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 9 June 2016 03:40 (seven years ago) link
Thanks to this thread I've been singing this http://youtu.be/RTKFJpUAyy4 to myself a lot, only with 'cream' instead of 'green'.
― inside, skeletons are always inside, that's obvious. (dowd), Thursday, 9 June 2016 08:03 (seven years ago) link
Last night I ordered a Papa Johns which was half 'BBQ Beef Brisket': Melt-in-the-mouth chunks of brisket burnt ends sliced from slow-smoked beef brisket, plus delicious crispy onions and bacon, drizzled with a sweet Cola BBQ sauce. Yes, I had my reservations about a sweet Cola BBQ sauce - although it sounds a bit Nigella, Papa Johns are exactly the sort to screw it up and make something truly disgusting. But curiosity got the better of me.
I can only describe the sauce as tasting exactly like melted down Cola bottles (sweets). Really quite revolting. Luckily somehow they hadn't drowned the pizza in it and it couldn't really be tasted, plus the brisket was actually quite nice.
― kinder, Wednesday, 10 August 2016 10:45 (seven years ago) link
mein dummes kleines kinder. (School level german)
― two crickets sassing each other (dowd), Wednesday, 10 August 2016 11:14 (seven years ago) link
I'm still going to have the rest for lunch - it is pizza, after all
― kinder, Wednesday, 10 August 2016 11:19 (seven years ago) link
Spent a week in Italy this summer, and I've become quite a sucker for salsiccia on pizza. Normally doesn't like sausage, but this is really great. Salsiccia and gorgonzola, mmmm.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 10 August 2016 11:31 (seven years ago) link
I know an American dude who likes to dip his pizza in custard.
― "Stop researching my life" (Ste), Wednesday, 10 August 2016 14:22 (seven years ago) link
I have had some delicious Papa Johns pizzas and also some rather lacklustre ones in my life.
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 August 2016 15:49 (seven years ago) link
The Greek is my go-to. They stopped doing it for a while so I stopped going there. They obviously realised their mistake.
― kinder, Wednesday, 10 August 2016 16:07 (seven years ago) link
had this for lunch:http://i.imgur.com/1E6dk7b.jpg
― Het schaduwkabinet reshuffle (seandalai), Saturday, 8 October 2016 15:09 (seven years ago) link
Damn, that sounds good.
― how's life, Saturday, 8 October 2016 15:15 (seven years ago) link
some good corn talk itt
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 8 October 2016 18:35 (seven years ago) link
see below, pls discuss
http://i1247.photobucket.com/albums/gg622/bizarrogazzara/IMG_1147_zpsz6mlwjqj.jpg
― ben "bance" bance (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 18:10 (seven years ago) link
seems...fine?
― Number None, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 18:14 (seven years ago) link
Robot steals your food prep job, gets creative
― nashwan, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 18:15 (seven years ago) link
one pls
― i n f i n i t y (∞), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 18:17 (seven years ago) link
happy birthday rescinded
― imago, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 18:37 (seven years ago) link
if one more person calls out rocket as a bad pizza topping i swear to god
― imago, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 18:38 (seven years ago) link
What arugula do?
― virginity simple (darraghmac), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 18:42 (seven years ago) link
jfc you're going to have to check your fps after that
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 18:50 (seven years ago) link
tt is on the 'rocket is disgusting' team
i am in dudgeon
― imago, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 19:04 (seven years ago) link
you're a vegetarian for fuck's sake
Whole Foods carries a prosciutto and arugula (rocket) frozen pizza that I get from time to time. Yum!
― sarahell, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 19:06 (seven years ago) link