so i was at dinner with a britisher. she ordered a prawn and rocket pizza. when it came, she put ketchup on it. I have pics

I've never heard anyone use "corn" in the generic sense in everyday life, but I work in a lab that does quality testing on cereal crops and sometimes the term corns will be used in place of grains/seeds eg "number of whole corns in [barley] sample". we do analyse maize but call it maize because science

Yeah I have no objections to using the word "maize" when necessary for precision.

wait hold up a second

"pole corn"?

yeah I mean creamed corn is not the best idea in the world

Depends on how fresh it is. Creamed was the only method for putting up the summer sweet corn* crop when I was growing up. Nowadays it seems like everybody has enough freezer space to put the ears up whole, on the cob, sometimes unshucked even.

2-3 times per summer we'd have so much corn coming in that we'd have fresh creamed corn on biscuits instead of gravy.

* As opposed to field corn, which was dried and went to feed livestock.

The fading away of "corn" as a generic term for grain seems inevitable atm, because of the global influence of American films and television and the global popularity of maize as a food crop.

http://cdn.firstwefeast.com/assets/2015/07/cream-corn-potato-pizza.jpg

"Managing partner Hillary Barq and chef Nick Vella took over in June and have maintained the restaurant's focus on Sicilian-influenced dishes" in a casual setting at this spot, sandwiched between stunners Herbsaint and Marcello's. While appetizers can tend toward the bland or unbalanced, stick with the pastas—especially the squid ink linguine—and the best bet of all, the wood fired pizzas:

A standout Parmesan creamed corn and shrimp version sounds strange at first but is a showstopper. The buttery corn topping tastes like a bisque but is thicker; crispy, salty slices of speck add deep fatty flavor, which is balanced by heaps of fresh arugula.

just to bring us full circle

wait hold up a second

"pole corn"?

― STOP KILLING ANIMALS, THEY'RE MINT (DJP), Monday, June 6, 2016 2:18 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

We call it corn on the pole.

I've tried several different variants of "stripper corn" joke and none of them have really worked ;_;

hominy hominy hominy

From a lifetime of parties with extended family that is Polish, this is the true Pole corn
http://images.media-allrecipes.com/userphotos/250x250/00/32/21/322161.jpg

wait hold up a second

"pole corn"?

― STOP KILLING ANIMALS, THEY'RE MINT (DJP)

I'm imagining Dan as Butthead in the Sex Ed class scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHmsReGYnCs

Sweetcorn/corn is great in all its forms imo. A bowl for lunch with salt, as part of a barbecue, on pizza, to yellow up any dishes that need it (paella), popcorn... This 'creamed corn' looks delicious too, so I'll be making that soon.

Once I lived near a stand that sold it with different combinations of salt, paprika, cheese, chilli, sugar, chocolate...there wasn't a single bad one.

When vegetarian pizza offerings are so often composed of mystifyingly stew-centric components (why should I enjoy courgette on a bread? Aubergine? Are you crazy?), sweetcorn is the salvation from getting a plain one. What a great texture!

yellow up

courgette and aubergine on a pizza work really well. my pizza last night had courgettes on it and was much the better for this. keep your goddamned creamed corn away from me

*plans dinner*

aubergine on bruschetta is nice

we have a corn stand round our way too, cups of fresh sweetcorn with various toppings/flavours, always smells delicious

I envy you.

Spicy corn in a cup is a thing in South Asian neighbourhoods in London and it's only about a pound or £1.50 per serving.

2 spices 1 cup

what do you mean by stew-centric? i've never had stewed egg plant or zucchini or had them in a stew. i have had many stews with corn

Stewed corn? That is to mask its finest properties. Maybe there's another big continental divide to be observed over stews. I've had plenty of vague, European stews involving courgette during long, sad winters.

stewed aubergine def a thing in lebanese &c cuisine

if you've not had baba ghanoush then frankly you can't say anything about aubergines

Ratatouille is a type of stew! How have you not heard of that?

I always feel a bit of a fraud posting on food threads as I don't know shit about food and don't really care about it, but considering stews and stew-like soups (or "stewps") are the only thing I can cook I feel like I can speak more assuredly on this matter.

staidinterface

i lump stews, chowders, soups together in my head i guess. i've had ratatouille but always thought it was baked so i never have thought of it as a stew

All of this said, I did once make a Bamia pizza (like a Middle Eastern okra stew, but on a pizza base), so I don't think I can be critical of any food combination. 'Stewp' sounds marketable.

I saw a woman pour ketchup all over her pastrami sandwich in a noted Jewish deli. I found it offensive, and I think a rabbi should rule it traif.

i don't think i've ever encountered the word 'courgette' before today

I would have guessed it meant "little cougar"

phonetically speaking, zucchini might beat courgette, although the endings are problematic for both - zucchini looks like a singularised plural and courgette seems to use the feminine diminutive that so benights the french language

however, nobody on this earth could convince me that 'eggplant' is a more euphonious name than 'aubergine'

courgette is probably a better name than zucchini. aubergine is definitely a better name than eggplant.

lol xp

Totally agree w/ imago (xp and wins!). Though I have no real problem with -ette being appended to things, as opposed to people.

zucchini and egg plant are both the native american names iirc

agree that 'aubergine' as a word is vastly superior to 'eggplant'

white aubergines totally look like eggs tho!

http://www.khiewchanta.com/images/small-white-eggplant.jpg

wow

I have to assume that whoever named them was looking at those and not the common purple ones

round yellow courgettes are even more mindblowing (and really nice)

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/grapevine/attachments/fruit-vegetable-showcase/31807d1346881803-virtual-show-2012-pair-courgettes-voting-100_0490.jpg

shit that is huge, sorry

i will start using 'zucchino' in penance

I prefer "zucchinus"

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CgmOs10W4AIG6kg.jpg

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for all my bemoaning of the french feminine diminutive i've actually been frightfully androcentric in my assumption of 'zucchino'; it transpires the original was 'zucchina'

no wait the plot has thickened

Zucca is the Italian word for pumpkin/squash and zucchino/zucchina (zucca + ina = little) are diminutive forms, becoming zucchini/zucchine in the plural. Zucchino, the masculine form (zucchini in the plural), is the first form to be documented in writing.[2] An Italian dictionary called lo Zingarelli 2015, Zanichelli Editore, gives both forms, as does the Devoto-Oli published by Le Monnier, but the Accademia della Crusca, the most important research institution on Italian language, defines zucchino as the preferable form.[2] The Treccani, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia italiana, another highly respected linguistic authority, gives zucchina as the main Italian word, and the masculine form as Tuscan dialect.

got to go with lo zingarelli 2015