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Back in mid to late 60s, my wive and some lady friends would get together and take all the kids out to a farm to pick corn. All they could stuff into a gunny sack for $1. Cost less than 5 cents per ear. Then they all would freeze it for the home freezers.
Yeah, I remember it 29¢ per dozen ears. That was in Minnesota in the mid 60s.
One year I planted two types of corn, white and yellow. I didn't know they would cross pollinate (I didn't know much about gardening then). But I had got bi-colored corn that year and it was delicious. I've never been able to repeat that.
Born and raised in the USA and spent most of my childhood summers with grandparents who had corn rows in their gardens, I never quite got the fuss over fresh-picked corn on the cob.
But then I love love love black-eyed peas and lots of folks think that's livestock fodder. So it's all subjective.
What my sister and I miss the most from our late Dad's garden was those big juicy tomatoes!! Our favorite lunch was a thick slices of tomato smothered in mayo between two pieces of Sunbeam bread
What my sister and I miss the most from our late Dad's garden was those big juicy tomatoes!! Our favorite lunch was a thick slices of tomato smothered in mayo between two pieces of Sunbeam bread
Yep, 1950's here. Late August and we always had a cook-out...there was corn on the cob, watermelon, hot dogs, burgers, and real lemonade. The corn was boiled in a stock pot then slathered with real butter and eaten on the spot. My grandmother always grew tomatoes in the back yard, but didn't have room for corn. I remember eating them just as you said - smothered in mayo! You just don't find food that tastes like that now!
Today, I have my own family garden, and we grow Silver Queen and Golden Bantam. Both good, solid, 'older' breeds of corn, and we raise it as organically as possible, and eat it as quickly as possible. Never did put salt or pepper on it, but plenty of real butter (we don't eat margarine). After a few days of 'pigging out' on it, we set up the canner and jars, and can it right away. If done that way, it tastes almost as good as fresh.
Tomato/mayo sandwiches and corn on the cob!!!! You just couldn't ask for a better summer meal. We always had our corn at the end of a meal, when my mother would bring out the corn, plenty of butter and the little corn trays and corn-shaped picks we used to hold the cob.
I may be in the minority, but rarely eat corn. Too much sugar. Corn is a high carb food with little nutrition. I eat treats on occasion. Corn is not one of them.
I'm sorry, but to me that just sounds sad! Do carrots and peas make the cut because of vitamins? - they have a lot of sugar too....I guess fruit is out of the question - watermelon?
Yeah, I remember it 29¢ per dozen ears. That was in Minnesota in the mid 60s.
One year I planted two types of corn, white and yellow. I didn't know they would cross pollinate (I didn't know much about gardening then). But I had got bi-colored corn that year and it was delicious. I've never been able to repeat that.
OMG - YOU invented it! ...that's about all they sell here now in Central IL - bicolored sweetcorn.
When we would go camping when I was a child, my father would start the water going over the fire. Then he would jump in the car and drive to the nearest farm. They would go out into the field, pick the corn, and then he would rush back and we would drop it in the boiling water.
Eating while camping.... does anything taste better?
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