For my wife and I one of the best things about summer is when the local corn is ready. Southern Manitoba has the perfect climate for growing somethings and corn is one of them. When our local corn is ready most grocery stores advertise they have it. Eating corn on the cob with bbqed pork sirloin steak is a treat for us. Sometimes that means having it 2 or 3 times in a week. With that comes something that bugs me.
Growing up here corn was just corn, one kind only. There was a time when I was young and we went to a corn harvest dance that I did pig out on the free corn. They keep bringing it in in store shopping carts and I just keep eating it. Not going to admit how many cobs it was, my wife never lets me forget, will just say it was a lot.
What bugs me is the bi-colour ( peaches and cream) corn that always seems to be the only corn in the store. If I am totally honest I hate it. It's not just that it isn't the corn I grew up eating. I find it doesn't have much true corn taste. Yes it looks pretty and is sweet tasting but that doesn't make it good corn. The traditional corn has 100 times more corn taste.
I remember when the bi-colour corn first appeared in the stores. It was about 20 years ago early in the summer. It was shipped from Mexico and around the end of June. Of course people bought it because they had the summer craving for corn on the cob. There were 3 comments, at least from the people I knew, describing it. It sure looks pretty, it sure is different looking, it is sweet. I can't remember ever hearing anyone say that's better corn.
Thankfully the street vendors who bring their corn in from the Morden area have normal corn. If I am a corn snob so be it, good corn isn't bi-coloured.
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