NEPA ~ Off Topic ~ Chatting Thread ( New ) (pub, humid, dates)

[Gerania]

Originally Posted by fisheye

My wife and I love the big kernel yellow sweet corn that you simply cannot find today. About 20 years ago we grew one variety that was about the best we ever had; that was Penn Fresh ADX. I tried searching for it on line and came up with broken links or the wrong information. I think aliens stole the best sweet corn or maybe Monsanto! We cannot figure out why everybody started growing the bi-color corn and some white corn - what happened to yellow (it's discrimination).

Here is one link that gives some of the varieties (except Penn Fresh ADX): Sweet Corn Production — Ag Alternatives — Penn State Extension.

It's a fashion show, fisheye. Yellow was fine until everyone wanted white. Then, bi-color became all the rage. In recent years, I've been seeing mostly very pale yellow. I guess it's a white type.

I remember going to farm stands with mom, and she always asked which variety they were selling.

[East Coast Wanderer]

Originally Posted by Gerania

It's a fashion show, fisheye. Yellow was fine until everyone wanted white. Then, bi-color became all the rage. In recent years, I've been seeing mostly very pale yellow. I guess it's a white type.

I remember going to farm stands with mom, and she always asked which variety they were selling.

Whenever I buy corn I always buy the edible kind.

[Gerania]

Originally Posted by mr.magoo

cool story TG...that was quite the thing about Campbells getting their tomatoes from local farms back in the day when their processing plant was in Camden.
that's why every batch of V-8 juice my Dad bought he was able to discern the difference in the tomato flavor.

The local farms around Hamilton Square, NJ where I lived after we moved from WB contracted with Stokely Van Camp in Trenton on Lalor Street..I remember a friend of my older brother was taken a truckload of tomatoes to SVC and spilled the whole load right in front of the factory..

It made the papers..had his picture looking real dejected sitting down while the local South Trenton 'River Rat' kids were gathering up the spilled produce.

If the wind was right you could smell the tomatoes being processed on some days.at the factory..the whole area smelled like Ketchup.

About 25 years ago, they converted the factory to a Senior Citizens home..really nice..The still kept the ornate old wrought iron sign with the monogram SVC at the entrance.

Champale factory at bottling plant was just a 1/4 mile away heading towards the River.

That's a blast from the past. I remember the commercials.

I didn't realize Campbell was in Camden until 1990.

http://articles.latimes.com/1990-03-...mpbell-soup-co

[mr.magoo]

Originally Posted by Gerania

It's a fashion show, fisheye. Yellow was fine until everyone wanted white. Then, bi-color became all the rage. In recent years, I've been seeing mostly very pale yellow. I guess it's a white type.

I remember going to farm stands with mom, and she always asked which variety they were selling.

we grew up on white corn...most local farms grew it to suit the tastes of the local suburbanites.local
Farmers, to protect their sweet corn crops from local hungry marauding teens, (I ain't mentionin' no names') would grow a few rows of 'horse corn' on the periphery of the sweet corn to disuade us from plucking.


Coming home from the beach as teens, we would raid a local farmstand of a basket of tomatoes or peaches...everyone kept a salt shaker in their glove box with a piece of paper across the shaker holes...

In my group, about 10 guys, 5 went to Viet Nam as Marines a few short years later, 2 KIA,
One two tours, 4 Purple Hearts...the other two, one went to Okinawa..another as a triage Corpsman to the Phillipines

8 out of 10 of us served in the Military...that was the odds back then.. it just seemed to dominate every conversation...and just so natural...

sorry...back to Corn

[mr.magoo]

Originally Posted by Gerania

That's a blast from the past. I remember the commercials.

I didn't realize Campbell was in Camden until 1990.

Campbell Shutdown Leaves Town in the Soup - latimes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWeicpI9sLw
Champale..oh yeah,
always gave me a headache, and a dry mouth..would drink it with our 'street collaborators aka 'rat bastid informers' ..they would sell their own mamas out...

just doin' my job..doin' my job.

[mr.magoo]

but more realistically..this is more representative of socio-economic group that really imbibed this vile concoction..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrFSxJxf2V0

[jimazee]

There are a few ways to microwave corn. Lots of examples and videos on the web. Just duckduckgo (or Google...) something like .... get ready for the magic chant ....."microwave corn" (!!!!). Knock yourself out reading the variations...I like videos for this technique, which I have been using lately. It's like magic at removing the husks.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnBF6bv4Oe4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8vWhX1zXKM

If you search you'll find many more...some different.

The biggest disadvantage may be that m/w corn works best with one or two at a time, though some say you can do 3 or 4 in a triangle or box shape and maybe rotate part way etc. You have to find your timing.

The nice thing is it's easy to just pop a corn in the m/w and in 3-4 minutes it's done (I do about 2.5 to 3 minutes in 1100 watt micro with fresh corn...a bit longer if older corn). After it's done there's very little cleanup. Just be careful to let it cool a bit before handling and eating.

Good luck...

[Gerania]

Originally Posted by mr.magoo

we grew up on white corn...most local farms grew it to suit the tastes of the local suburbanites.local
Farmers, to protect their sweet corn crops from local hungry marauding teens, (I ain't mentionin' no names') would grow a few rows of 'horse corn' on the periphery of the sweet corn to disuade us from plucking.

Coming home from the beach as teens, we would raid a local farmstand of a basket of tomatoes or peaches...everyone kept a salt shaker in their glove box with a piece of paper across the shaker holes...

In my group, about 10 guys, 5 went to Viet Nam as Marines a few short years later, 2 KIA,
One two tours, 4 Purple Hearts...the other two, one went to Okinawa..another as a triage Corpsman to the Phillipines

8 out of 10 of us served in the Military...that was the odds back then.. it just seemed to dominate every conversation...and just so natural...

sorry...back to Corn

My brother worked as a senior scout/counselor at Camp Acahela (BSA) one summer. It's off of 115 just north of Blakeslee, and the next summer at Camp Kresge (YMCA). Both places, he was teaching wildlife awareness, living off the land, etc. You betcha that living off of the land involved farm fields. Usually corn, but anything would do. Pine needle tea is terrible, cat tails aren't very filling, and you don't always catch a fish. I was horrified, just horrified when he told me about that. My big brother stole something?

He didn't go to Vietnam. He was a language major at Wilkes...French, German, Russian. My parents reluctantly accepted that he would go, until the CIA came calling. There were two appointments at the house. Mom sent me to my room. We hadn't yet gone north, but that's why they wanted him. They needed interrogators. Nope. He went to Morocco with the Peace Corps then taught in a poor neighborhood in New Jersey for a couple of years. I love New Jersey.

I went to school with a guy who died in the Beirut barracks bombing. The really weird thing was that a friend, a guy, bought his car when his parents finally sold it. It was a yellow Toyota Celica liftback.

So, corn.

[Gerania]

Originally Posted by mr.magoo

but more realistically..this is more representative of socio-economic group that really imbibed this vile concoction..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrFSxJxf2V0

That's what I remember. How much Colt did you have to drink?

[Gerania]

Originally Posted by jimazee

There are a few ways to microwave corn. Lots of examples and videos on the web. Just duckduckgo (or Google...) something like .... get ready for the magic chant ....."microwave corn" (!!!!). Knock yourself out reading the variations...I like videos for this technique, which I have been using lately. It's like magic at removing the husks.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnBF6bv4Oe4


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8vWhX1zXKM

If you search you'll find many more...some different.

The biggest disadvantage may be that m/w corn works best with one or two at a time, though some say you can do 3 or 4 in a triangle or box shape and maybe rotate part way etc. You have to find your timing.

The nice thing is it's easy to just pop a corn in the m/w and in 3-4 minutes it's done (I do about 2.5 to 3 minutes in 1100 watt micro with fresh corn...a bit longer if older corn). After it's done there's very little cleanup. Just be careful to let it cool a bit before handling and eating.

Good luck...

I'd be happy to have Ken as my neighbor. He seems a really nice guy.

Mrs. Rogers