Ehhhh…
canned baby corn. Most evil of all veggies, because it looks so cute. At least other canned veg has the decency to look awful (Fancy cut grean beans, for example. Bleh.)
The kind they served in my college cafe salad bar has trace flavors of black olive. Ug.
Baby corn is the veal of the vegetable food group.
Did you know that baby corn is confined to a mere 1 square foot of ground for it’s entire short and brutal life? Did you know baby corn is not allowed physical contact with it’s parents? Did you know that baby corn is made to stay outside in it’s 1 square foot prison with no shelter, no matter how brutal the weather?
It’s barbaric I tell you.
Baby corn is the ONLY kind of corn I like.
I hate, loathe and despise the regular corn cobs most of you seem to enjoy shudder.
I pick bits of corn out of my meals.
But baby corn…mmmm. But I prefer the chinese mushrooms (I don’t know the right name for them, but they look like they are encased in a little bag) that you get with duck. YUMMY!
Straw mushrooms? Also, they taste much better fresh than the canned stuff we get in the States.
The straw mushrooms I get in Thai soups and what-not around here give me the willies. Slimy slugworthy texture and intense choadlike toadstool flavor. ::gags, throws up a little in mouth:: I’m normally a mushroom enthusiast, loving the boomers, but straw mushrooms almost ruined all that for me. Maybe my road to recovery starts with trying them fresh.
Baby corn has that mild sweet pickle flavor, and a fun mouth feel. Like artichoke heart: it should not be abolished, just used sparingly for the sake of the dish. Otherwise you’re fucked.
water chestnuts are abusurd. they are like an unsweeted jicama (which is also banned from my belly).
baby corn has eye appeal, I like to stare at it whenever I can spot it. It is a mutant from corn. Much like the wild selectly help the strongest survive by maybe allowing deformed babies to die, the corn has rejected the fetus. That is enough reason for me to attempt to look but not touch. I am happy that I live in a society that doesn’t waste the rejected corns, they deserve love too.
Mmm. Baby corn and straw mushrooms. I could make stir-fry with just those two items and be perfectly happy.
Ditto, Winnowill!
We have a stir-fry station at the cafeteria at work. The dude asked me if I wanted everything. Mmm, onions and carrots and brocolli…so much yummy deliciousness. And then I saw the baby corn. I told him, verbatim: "No baby corn. There is something about baby corn that disturbs me. "
It’s like miniature horses and Austin Powers. Some things are adorable in little versions (e.g. little baby sneakers) and some things are just freaky in its miniature form.
They don’t, anymore. Now they’re called “baby cut carrots”.
Cough sputter choke!
I dunno why, but that caught me completely off guard and I just laughed a lovely combo of Coke and chocolate chip cookie out of my nose.
Um? Oh. Baby corn: never have been able to bring myself to try it. It just looks… wrong, somehow.
I have to agree. That stuff tastes really vile.
I’ve never seen them before (not sure if such a product has ever been available here in the Kingdom of Butter), but I’m guessing that the packaging now looks something like:
BABY
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CARROTS!!!
Just pulled a bag out of the fridge to check.
Baby-Cut Carrots, very clear and obvious.
Ah well, unwarranted cynicism from Mangetout again; whatever next?
Stir fry makes Baby Corn cry.
It all makes sense now… baby corn cobs are how pioneer children wiped their butts.
Well, I just pulled my bag outta the fridge and it says clear as a bell:
Classic Cut & Peeled
BABY CARROTS
HEY! You leave my baby corn snake alone! She’s not freaky, she’s CUTE! Don’t make me come ruff you up.
[sub]What?[/sub]
Corn Zombie!