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midian3x
Joined: 18 Sep 2006
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 Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 7:26 pm Post subject: Korean corn wtf? |
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So I saw some canned corn at the grocery corn.
It was either korean corn or jolly green giant- well the jolly corn was twice as expensive and I thought, hey, corn is corn right?
Well I just looked closely at the label and it says Golden Whole Kernel- and underneath that it has-
Corn 82.32 %
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What the hell is the other 17 some odd per cent?
Do I even want to know? |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Sugar water? |
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Fishead soup
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Location: Korea
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It's expensive becouse its a popular topping for pizza. The Pizza parlours
buy most of it allowing the chain stores to charge whatever they want for it. |
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icicle
Joined: 09 Feb 2007
Location: Gyeonggi do Korea
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| Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 11:19 pm Post subject: |
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Probably actually quite a good percentage of corn really ... Same problem happens in the west ... I know I have reguarly seen different shows showing the percentage of actual vegetables or fruit in canned or frozen goods ...
As the previous poster said most of the other amount is probably water ...
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chasmmi
Joined: 16 Jun 2007
Location: Ulsan
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| Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 11:26 pm Post subject: |
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I remember Dolmio Spaghetti sauces in the UK have something like 126g grammes of tomatoes per hundred grammes.
These things happne. |
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The Hammer
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Ullungdo 37.5 N, 130.9 E, altitude : 223 m
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| Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 1:29 am Post subject: |
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| Also, Korean corn on the cob is nasty. Sometimes Costco has corn from New Zealand and it is crunchy and tasty. Thanks NZ! |
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HapKi
Joined: 10 Dec 2004
Location: TALL BUILDING-SEOUL
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| Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:14 am Post subject: |
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| Also, Korean corn on the cob is nasty. Sometimes Costco has corn from New Zealand and it is crunchy and tasty. Thanks NZ! |
As well, how about a "Costco is from America. Thanks America."
Korean corn on the cob is nasty, I agree. I try not to think of it as corn, but more like chewy little candy pieces on a stick, that you pick of one by one. But candy's too kind of a word. |
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Woland
Joined: 10 May 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 4:02 am Post subject: |
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| Basically, corn on the cob anywhere outside of fresh-picked, quick-husked, into-the-boiling-pot-somewhere-in-the-midwest-done-in-five is silage. |
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bluelake
Joined: 01 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 4:09 am Post subject: |
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| Back when I first came to Korea in 1984, I brought with me seeds for a super-sweet variety of corn. My late father-inlaw gave them to a friend of his who owned a vineyard. When the corn was ready for harvesting, we went out to the vineyard. The stalks poked up through all the vines, having grown even without lots of sunlight. When we shucked some ears, we found that the bugs that love corn were having a sugar buzz on what grew from the seeds I brought. We didn't get all that many ears, but those we did have were undoubtedly the best tasting in all of Korea at that time (and maybe to this day...). |
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sojourner1
Joined: 17 Apr 2007
Location: Where meggi swim and 2 wheeled tractors go sput put chug alugg pug pug
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I get those Del Monte small boxes of canned corn. They are really good sweet corn from the US and are on sale right now for 550 Won per box at Homeplus.
As for corn on the cob here, it's very solid, hard, and dense. |
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HapKi
Joined: 10 Dec 2004
Location: TALL BUILDING-SEOUL
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| Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 6:34 am Post subject: |
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| We didn't get all that many ears, but those we did have were undoubtedly the best tasting in all of Korea at that time (and maybe to this day...). |
My imported Iowa sweet corn should rival that. I'll let you know this harvest. |
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I-am-me
Joined: 21 Feb 2006
Location: Hermit Kingdom
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| Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 6:58 am Post subject: |
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Iowa corn is the best!!!!  |
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bluelake
Joined: 01 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 9:02 am Post subject: |
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| HapKi wrote: |
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| We didn't get all that many ears, but those we did have were undoubtedly the best tasting in all of Korea at that time (and maybe to this day...). |
My imported Iowa sweet corn should rival that. I'll let you know this harvest. |
Hehehe, could be...  |
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elynnor
Joined: 08 Feb 2006
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| The Hammer wrote: |
| Also, Korean corn on the cob is nasty. Sometimes Costco has corn from New Zealand and it is crunchy and tasty. Thanks NZ! |
Yeah. It's rather amazing, really, how far food science has advanced in North America when you consider Korean corn. Tasteless, small kernels. We'd feed that to pigs. You'd never see it on a grocery store shelf. Same with chickens. The whole chickens here are scrawly birds.
Gimme some of that ol' time GMO and hormone farming, I say. Makes for some damn tasty eating.
Back in the late '90s a coworker went to Eastern Europe to teach English. This was shortly after the fall of the Iron Curtain. She brought a bunch of picture books. One had pictures of vegetables in a grocery store. The kids were like "THOSE are carrots?" They couldn't believe carrots were, you know, so big. The soils in Eastern Europe were so polluted and their vegetable strains were so primitive, carrots were scrawny little tubers. Not the big red bunches we were used to. |
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