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TAKE THAT YOU STUPID CORRRNNN
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 03:09 (seven years ago) link
I just eat prawns with the tail on most I the time, unless it's particularly big you can usually just crunch it up. I stop at sucking the juices out the head like someone I know does....
― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Sunday, July 14, 2013 4:43 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
???ppl really eat the shrimp tails? other ppl do this??
― slam dunk, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 03:25 (seven years ago) link
A coworker did. He was lactose intolerant and said the tails gave him calcium.
I ate a shrimp head accidentally once (misjudged the teeth/shrimp intersection) and it didn't taste any different than the shrimp body.
― nickn, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 04:54 (seven years ago) link
I wouldnt care for it but people eat soft shell crab, so *shrug*
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 06:57 (seven years ago) link
If the shrimp have been properly fried, go for it and crunch the shell; otherwise, you may prefer the packaging your carry-out came in.
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 07:09 (seven years ago) link
the juices from the head of the prawn are amazing! certain types of frying make it p easy to eat more of the prawn in its entirety. in spain you see people sucking the shrimp head p much everywhere.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 08:13 (seven years ago) link
glad dan is presumably in bed as i posted that.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 08:14 (seven years ago) link
Decided to cook creamed corn tonight. What is it traditionally eaten with in the U.S.A? If it goes wrong, I'll just order a pizza (and put it on that).
― It certainly is punk of the Church of England to think that way (tangenttangent), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 10:43 (seven years ago) link
i heard it was traditionally eaten with a full seafood paella
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 10:46 (seven years ago) link
in my experience creamed corn is mostly a southern thing so it's typically eaten w/ traditional southern foods.
― dynamicinterface, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 12:33 (seven years ago) link
lol LG
― STOP KILLING ANIMALS, THEY'RE MINT (DJP), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 13:08 (seven years ago) link
the creamed corn is in the oven. this is not a drill.
― imago, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 20:51 (seven years ago) link
have settled on 'whipping post' (fillmore versh) as soundtrack for this occasion
― imago, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 20:52 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/x5ioowX.jpg
...this is healthy.
― It certainly is punk of the Church of England to think that way (tangenttangent), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 21:06 (seven years ago) link
hey this ain't so bad
― imago, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 21:13 (seven years ago) link
if you like corn
― imago, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 21:14 (seven years ago) link
Serving suggestion
― inside, skeletons are always inside, that's obvious. (dowd), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 21:57 (seven years ago) link
Corn should be eaten off the cob with seasoned butter, popped with oil, or ground up for meal or flour. There is no other acceptable treatment.
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 22:00 (seven years ago) link
ground into a paste
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 22:01 (seven years ago) link
tbh I quite like canned creamed corn heated and put on crispy toast, with a LOT of black pepper.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 8 June 2016 03:43 (seven years ago) link
But I recall as a child I hated the smell and idea of it so so badly, that I'd hide under my bed covers and whine, whenever dad cooked some up.
My uncle and grandad grew corn for a living, mostly popcorn or feed corn but they did do some sweet corn too. It's not unusual in rural Indiana in late July or August to be able buy sweet corn ears out of the back of a pickup truck pulled on the side of the road that was just picked.
One really good way to cook an ear of corn is to clean it, shuck back the leaves, pull off the silks, then add garlic butter to the corn, pull back the leaves tying it with string and cook the ears on a grill.
It's also good to take fresh corn ears cut the corn off the cob, render a piece of bacon with chopped onion and fry up the corn in an iron skillet. Cook it until the sugar in the corn starts to carmelize and the corn browns up a bit. Fresh corn will still be firm but it will have a very different taste than the canned stuff most people know.
― earlnash, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 06:25 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, frying up fresh corn is very important. I learned that recently. Growing up in Indiana, we had a Corn Roast with extended family every year and grilled them as you describe. Was not uncommon for a few people to eat more than 10 ears of corn each that day.
― Sufjan Grafton, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 06:54 (seven years ago) link
it's always kind of funny to run into someone who's either lived in the city during their entire Midwest life or has recently moved to the corn belt and thinks that all the thousands of acres of corn they drive by in the countryside is sweet corn (the squishy kind you eat with butter or cut off the cob and make one of many dishes).
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 8 June 2016 16:55 (seven years ago) link
I work for BIG CORN so this is something that I take for granted
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 8 June 2016 16:56 (seven years ago) link
weird what passes for humor out there I guess
― badg, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 20:11 (seven years ago) link
big corn sounds interesting
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 8 June 2016 21:02 (seven years ago) link
anytime you want to hear about ethanol or something, you let me know
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 8 June 2016 21:08 (seven years ago) link
how big is that industry? are you guys an extended enterprise?
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 8 June 2016 21:11 (seven years ago) link
the twilight view of the south bend ethanol plant from route 31 is magical
― Sufjan Grafton, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 21:30 (seven years ago) link
Ethanol is a pretty big business in Iowa and Indiana. I'm sure the fields in Northern Indiana around where my uncles farm are growing for a big ethanol refinery they put in their county. Like many family farms, they still own the land but most of it is leased out to big companies now. Indiana was always known for popcorn too, including the late Orville Redenbacher. Probably changed quite a bit now, but a lot of big seed corn growers would also raise hogs.
― earlnash, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 21:36 (seven years ago) link
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