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supernaut
Joined: 04 Jan 2007
Location: Nova Scotia
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| Are you sure it's not waxy corn, all other reasearch points to it being waxy....why did u put unfamiliar in capitol letters, I know taste vary, I am a food lover, but this Korean corn is horrible and I'm sure most Koreans that can put their pride aside, would agree that it's horrible after tasting what we call corn on the cob. |
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Claytron
Joined: 16 Jun 2010
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| Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 7:03 pm Post subject: |
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| NYC_Gal wrote: |
| toph wrote: |
Uh...not trying to be redundant, but:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_corn
After reading the article, it directly states that Koreans eat SWEET CORN. Not field corn. And corn on the cob only tastes good cause it's cooked...
@nyc
NYC_Gal wrote:
"Not at all. Organic corn from the states tastes superb.
Corn was originally from the Americas. This waxy version was found in China in 1909. The people who tested it said that it was peculiar. This means that American corn tasted good well before genetic modification."
I think your info about Korea consuming waxy corn is wrong.
See, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waxy_corn And I'm not sure if you're implying this or not, but waxy corn was never genetically modified pre-discovery either. |
I never said that waxy corn was genetically modified. I was arguing that sweet corn from the Americans wasn't. Sure, the vast majority of people eat the GM crap, but there is organic sweet corn.
As for waxy corn, that's a natural mutation as well. It just tastes bad, for me at least. I read about this extensively when I first got here because I was curious after a terrible corn on the cob experience. |
Organic doesn't mean heirloom fyi. |
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toph
Joined: 10 Jun 2010
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| Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 8:45 pm Post subject: |
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@op
Yeah, idk why I put "unfamiliar" in caps. I didn't even realize that...
But, yes, I can almost guarantee that it was sweet corn. It has nothing to do with K-pride or anything like that, it's just the fact that American corn-on-the-cob is a cooked food (generally speaking). I guess in those cases where you're on the farm, plowing the fields, shucking the corn...then I guess in those situations the corn would be eaten in its raw state. Which I'm sure would taste a lil funky. But if you read the article on Wikipedia (yes, I know, Wiki isn't the most reliable source) about sweet corn, it explicitly states that Koreans eat sweet corn. And if you read the waxy corn article, it explicitly, in great detail, provides information for the uses of its 1) food purposes, 2) commercial purposes.
@claytron
Yeah...I've found that NYC_Gal assumes organic means "god-send." I'm sure she knows her info about food, but I think she's under a misguided impression about organic food. Oh well... |
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NYC_Gal
Joined: 08 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 8:53 pm Post subject: |
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I use the term organic, but back home I used local, small farm, organic produce in my cooking. That would get lame if I typed that every time.
It's not a godsend. It's just cleaner.
Koreans eat waxy corn. It isn't sweet corn. Who eats raw corn?! It's not the same plant. |
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Hotwire
Joined: 29 Aug 2010
Location: Multiverse
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| Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Korean corn = bullet hard, dirty looking lumps of wax. |
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gossipgirlxoxo
Joined: 13 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 6:04 am Post subject: |
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The problem is your expectations are wrong. It looks like sweetcorn back home so you assume it's gonna be what you know and love, just like you think pat (팟) is strawberry jam or chocolate, and I dunno, how deok (떡) looks like sweet little cakes. If you think of it as a chewy, somewhat tough savory snack, it can be quite good. Or in other words, I used to HATE it, but now I kinda LOVE it.  |
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interestedinhanguk
Joined: 23 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 6:54 am Post subject: |
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| toph wrote: |
Uh...not trying to be redundant, but:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_corn
After reading the article, it directly states that Koreans eat SWEET CORN. Not field corn. And corn on the cob only tastes good cause it's cooked...
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| In Europe, China, Korea, and Japan, they are often used as a pizza topping, or in salads.[citation needed] |
First of all, notice the bold on the 'citation needed.' Anyways, that aside, your argument still doesn't hold. Do you think they put the fresh corn on the pizzas, salads etc? Heck no. It's from a can. CANNED sweet corn. I just went downstairs for a bottle of soju (lonely Friday night) and looked at at can of 스위트콘 (the konglishee should show you something, as the fresh stuff is called 옥수수). Country of origin: USA.
That Wikipedia reference doesn't say anything about the whole corn on the cob.
| notafbiagent wrote: |
But yeah, keep ranting that corn, a food most Koreans don't even like, sucks here.
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They don't like it because the corn (on the cob) here sucks. The (sweet) stuff in the can seems fairly popular |
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BoholDiver
Joined: 03 Oct 2009
Location: Canada
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| Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 7:10 am Post subject: |
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Koreans do like corn. Most street stalls sell it, all supermarkets sell it, and it's on pizza.
And it sucks.
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This is so retarded.
Corn sucks everywhere. Korean corn is less sweeter than the american counterpart but even the american corn sucks.
Why are you people sad about food that sucks? Be sad that Korean cheese sucks. That nobody here can make a decent chili, the tex-mex is crap, the pastas suck, there is a disappointing selection of bacon, it's hard to find spices that you need for western dishes, people refrigerate tomatoes, Korean beer sucks, good steaks are markedup 300%, there is just too much falafel everywhere, sour cream is like an unicorn, and finding a great burger is like finding a decent thread on Dave's.
But yeah, keep ranting that corn, a food most Koreans don't even like, sucks here.
CORN SUCKS GET OVER IT |
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Waluigi
Joined: 09 Apr 2009
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| Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 7:18 am Post subject: |
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| supernaut wrote: |
| wow what did corn ever do to you, maybe the older kids picked on u using corn when you were kid |
Corn approached me at a bar, wooed me over with its sweet talk and impressed me with its maize heritage. We went out on a whirlwind adventure feeding impoverished nations and spent many nights making alternative fuels with dreams of improving the world together - oh those long nights of talks about how we are going to change the world! Then once corn had its way with me it left a dirty husk in my bed and left before I woke. It never even called me back! I felt so used and left me emtional scarred and it took me years until I was able to let any produce into my life again.
It also kicked my dog, sold my father on bad stock tips, got me addicted to drugs and stole my TV.
F*CK YOU CORN! |
haha, that was funny. kudos. |
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atwood
Joined: 26 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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Koreans, as someone posted, love Korean corn. They think it's delicious.
To me it's rubbery and almost flavorless. But so are many other Korean foods--dukk cake, and I mean like a birthday cake, springs to mind.
When it comes to food, to each his own. |
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discostu333
Joined: 18 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 5:49 pm Post subject: |
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| It makes me laugh that the Korean apologists on this board would stoop to such new lows as to claim Korean corn is the same as real sweet corn / corn on the cob, despite the scientific evidence to prove otherwise. |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired
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| Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 7:58 pm Post subject: |
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| discostu333 wrote: |
| It makes me laugh that the Korean apologists on this board would stoop to such new lows as to claim Korean corn is the same as real sweet corn / corn on the cob, despite the scientific evidence to prove otherwise. |
Does it also make you laugh when people claim Wikipedia equates to "scientific evidence"? |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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| discostu333 wrote: |
| It makes me laugh that the Korean apologists on this board would stoop to such new lows as to claim Korean corn is the same as real sweet corn / corn on the cob, despite the scientific evidence to prove otherwise. |
Why compare? Is what it is. Like it or dont. |
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sojusucks
Joined: 31 May 2008
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| Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 10:00 pm Post subject: |
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| When Costco was selling that corn-on-the-cob from New Zealand my Korean wife and friends couldn't get enough of it.......it was so much more tasty. Korean corn doesn't seem like the same thing at all........ |
Agreed. The Korean "corn on the cob" was smaller and tasted more like the cob than the actual corn. The NZ corn at Costco just seemed much bigger and better tasting. I didn't think much about it until I saw this post. |
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working title
Joined: 20 Apr 2010
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| Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2010 4:16 am Post subject: |
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Agreed that Korean corn is a bit smaller (smaller kernels) than that of corn found in Western countries.
I do like the way they make the corn though by baking it. What I do is I first steam the corn until its cooked. Then I bake the corn in the often for about 20 min. until the kernels get hard. It's kind of a healthy alternative to Corn Nuts. |
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