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createasaurus21
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Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 10:28 am Post subject: Why is Korean corn so chewy and tasteless? |
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| What are they doing different here? |
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WadRUG'naDoo
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| Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 11:24 am Post subject: |
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| They forgot the gochujang. |
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toby99
Joined: 28 Aug 2009
Location: Dong-Incheon-by-the-sea, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 1:20 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't know, but it's some pretty raunchy stuff. |
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OHIO
Joined: 16 Aug 2011
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| Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 2:14 pm Post subject: |
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| They need to discover sweet corn! |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 3:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Ironic. Ubiquitous corn (think pizza) is the one thing here that isn't sweetened (think garlic bread). |
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bluelake
Joined: 01 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 4:16 pm Post subject: |
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When I first lived here ('84), the corn reminded me of field corn back in the States. I brought with me a seed packet of "Kandy Korn" (not the candy, but a variety of highly sweet corn). My future FIL gave it to a friend of his who owned a vineyard and he grew the corn for me. When it came time to harvest, my wife, FIL and I went to the vineyard. We were only able to harvest a handful of ears, as the worms that usually inhabited Korean corn had a sugar buzz from my crop... Still, what we did get was fantastic.
I think most corn Koreans use on pizzas comes from cans and is imported. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
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They use the kind of corn that is considered animal feed in western countries. It's called 'horse corn' in some parts. Waxy and hard.......I supposed Koreans have developed a taste for it.....
.....but when I cooked my K-relatives some western-style corn that was sold in Costco they went nuts for it. |
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AsiaESLbound
Joined: 07 Jan 2010
Location: Truck Stop Missouri
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| Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 9:30 pm Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
They use the kind of corn that is considered animal feed in western countries. It's called 'horse corn' in some parts. Waxy and hard.......I supposed Koreans have developed a taste for it.....
.....but when I cooked my K-relatives some western-style corn that was sold in Costco they went nuts for it. |
Yea! I knew it. It's what Americans call, "field corn," but is a Chinese variety just as soy beans are. The only sweet corn I seen in Korea was dead, cooked, and hermetically sealed in plastic at Homeplus from New Zealand. Notice I said dead. Well, fresh corn would introduce the Western European variety to Korea as it could be grown and they want to protect what is theirs as to not lose any more of the old ways after nearing losing their cultural identity in the war and then during redevelopment. In old times, traditional lower quality foods were eaten out of need, but today are eaten to proudly and patriotically support their country as nationalists making their food decisions based on propaganda propped up in the media by supporters resistant to change so they don't have to work harder and invest more money into food production. The propaganda works well in a culture where respecting your elders is first and peer pressure is the custom for getting things done. Despite all the loyalty to traditional lower quality corn, the Koreans, like anyone else in the world easily and quickly take to what Westerners enjoy, because it's more delicious and that scares the farmers and middle men of the changes coming about. Korean farmers and middle men will be put out of business if imports fully come about, but would be smarter to start growing more Western varieties and put into place modern productive agricultural methods since that's what's increasingly demanded now that the big 5000 year famine is a thing of the past. |
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jvalmer
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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| AsiaESLbound wrote: |
| Yea! I knew it. It's what Americans call, "field corn," but is a Chinese variety just as soy beans are. |
You do realize corn is a new world plant, and any Chinese strain of it would be less than 500 years old. I don't think there would be much 'nationalism' involved in Korean's corn choice. |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 11:33 pm Post subject: Re: Why is Korean corn so chewy and tasteless? |
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| createasaurus21 wrote: |
| What are they doing different here? |
OP.
I have sweet corn seeds. A lot of them. You point me to farmland and a farmer that will grow them and you got yourself Sweet Corn on the cob.
Until then, you should just deal with tasteless Korean corn. |
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nukeday
Joined: 13 May 2010
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| Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 1:17 am Post subject: |
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| bluelake wrote: |
I think most corn Koreans use on pizzas comes from cans and is imported. |
Damn right, pizza corn must come from a can. If corn on pizza were prepared by hand by Koreans, it would be left on the cob and we would be told that's where all the minerals are!
I'M LOOKING AT YOU, IN-SHELL SHRIMP. |
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