Corn on the Cob PC?

[George]

Now Tenn, we've had this discussion already. No-one needs to begrudgingly say I'm right anymore -- it's just understood. A given. Gospel!

I'd like you to understand why but that isn't necessary; however, your cooperation is.

Thanks again.

This has been a very educational thread. I've always wondered what happened to all the millions of class clowns who never made it in show business. Wonder no more. :haha:

Spence

 

[coloradoclyde]

“Levity of behavior is the bone of all that is good and virtuous” ~ Seneca

http://vlalife.tumblr.com/post/40602112873/levity-of-behavior-is-the-bone-of-all-that-is

 

[zimmerstutzen]

Didn't Rooster Cogburn have Grits? Thought that was why Mattie Ross was attracted to him. I know he ate corn somethings.

 

[Wes/Tex]

My god...what did I just hear? :shocked2:

 

[Wes/Tex]

Now for a brief return to the original question. Prior to the 1830 period, all the accounts of corn I can find merely mention it as Indian meal and speak of it in making ash cakes, hoe cakes, fritters or pudding. Found sources back to 1753, but only mentions it as meal. This is not to say it wasn't eaten, because I've found no such comment either. Since they were planting and ordering British seeds including broccoli (brokala), cauliflower, parsnips, cabbage, lettuce, asparagus, turnips, endive(seem to consider it separate), celery, water cress, mustard and cucumbers...it's hard to imagine nobody cooked corn.. Like the spirity bullet boards and short starters, may have, just no body felt compelled to mention it! :wink: :haha:

 

[tenngun]

Good point, people were funny about how to cook things, and were afraid of raw food. Looking at your last point the people who would most likely be eating it were the ones at the bottom of the economic classes. The well to do were planting European grains. So the ones who would have ate it were the ones most likely not to writing about it.
When the Sioux joined Levenworth's raid on the Arikara in 1823 they are recorded as entering the corn fields and stripping them clean. I kind of pictured them as eating the corn raw and off the stocks. :idunno: Who knows?

 

[tenngun]

Didn't Rooster Cogburn have Grits? Thought that was why Mattie Ross was attracted to him. I know he ate corn somethings.

Dodgers...fried corn bread, hush puppies, journey cakes.

 

[crockett]

Well I had thought maybe they all had wood teeth and couldn't eat corn on the cob but then they ate stuff like jerky so that doesn't make sense. Maybe it was thought as impolite in the settlements so no one ate it that way.

 

[Wes/Tex]

In the end, I think it probably goes back to a point mentioned early one. What they knew as corn and what we know as corn are probably two different things. Our modern sweet corn that we enjoy so much probably bears little resenblance to what grew in po' folks gardens back in the day. I feel fairly safe counting that as a major reason.