# Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Corn (But Were Afraid To Ask) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 1, 2012, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-corn-but-were-afraid-to-ask/617491 "2012-04-01T17:16:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-corn-but-were-afraid-to-ask/617491/1 "2012-04-01T17:16:16Z")
Go ahead, ask me anything (for a day)! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-corn-but-were-afraid-to-ask/617491/2 "2012-04-01T17:18:47Z")
Also, thanks to the mod/admin who made this possible. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-corn-but-were-afraid-to-ask/617491/3 "2012-04-01T17:21:23Z")
Okay. Do corns only occur on the feet, or can you get them on your hands and face? Is whispering to them an effective treatment? ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-corn-but-were-afraid-to-ask/617491/4 "2012-04-01T17:29:13Z")
What’s better, white peppercorns or black peppercorns? ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-corn-but-were-afraid-to-ask/617491/5 "2012-04-01T17:49:14Z")
Why do you have to whisper, if corns have so many ears? Why doesn’t an acorn look like a single ear of corn? You know what they say about high fructose corn syrup? -Popcorn is the new Kernel ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-corn-but-were-afraid-to-ask/617491/6 "2012-04-01T17:54:01Z")
> [@Dr.Drake](#): > > Okay. Do corns only occur on the feet, or can you get them on your hands and face? Is whispering to them an effective treatment? You can get corns anywhere on your body (or someone else’s body). Whispering to them is an effective treatment, but only if you do it in public. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-corn-but-were-afraid-to-ask/617491/7 "2012-04-01T17:56:28Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > What’s better, white peppercorns or black peppercorns? Neither. I prefer the polka-dot ones. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-corn-but-were-afraid-to-ask/617491/8 "2012-04-01T17:58:28Z")
> [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](#): > > Why do you have to whisper, if corns have so many ears? It hurts them if people talk too loudly around them. > [@](#): > > Why doesn’t an acorn look like a single ear of corn? God doesn’t make mistakes. > [@](#): > > You know what they say about high fructose corn syrup? Yes. It’s all true. Even the contradictory stuff. > [@](#): > > -Popcorn is the new Kernel Sure! ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-corn-but-were-afraid-to-ask/617491/9 "2012-04-01T18:32:31Z")
Is it unfair to scorn corn? ---
**Author:** ![figure9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f0a364/32.png) [@figure9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/figure9)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-corn-but-were-afraid-to-ask/617491/10 "2012-04-01T18:38:27Z")
Why didn’t my corn grow very well last year? ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-corn-but-were-afraid-to-ask/617491/11 "2012-04-01T18:48:56Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Is it unfair to scorn corn? I don’t know, but from the other thread on corn smut I’ve learned that you shouldn’t scorn corn porn. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-corn-but-were-afraid-to-ask/617491/12 "2012-04-01T18:56:06Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Is it unfair to scorn corn? Kind of. What did corn ever do to you? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-corn-but-were-afraid-to-ask/617491/13 "2012-04-01T18:57:53Z")
> [@figure9](#): > > Why didn’t my corn grow very well last year? The corn tells me you weren’t very nice to it. Maybe you should be nicer to your corn this year - they’re pretty sensitive, you know. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-corn-but-were-afraid-to-ask/617491/14 "2012-04-01T19:27:00Z")
I crossed corn with tobacco, to make a more addictive product. What’s the best way to market it? -Popcorn is the new Kernel ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-corn-but-were-afraid-to-ask/617491/15 "2012-04-01T19:28:35Z")
How’s Pop Corn? Your father, I mean? ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-corn-but-were-afraid-to-ask/617491/16 "2012-04-01T19:30:14Z")
Jimmy cracked corn… should I care? ---
**Author:** ![R.P.McMurphy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7993a0/32.png) [@R.P.McMurphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R.P.McMurphy)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-corn-but-were-afraid-to-ask/617491/17 "2012-04-01T19:34:13Z")
I asked this in another thread but since you are the expert: If you heat up a colonal will he explode into a big white mass? In other words, can you pop a colonel? If you stick him into the ground will he start to grow? ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-corn-but-were-afraid-to-ask/617491/18 "2012-04-01T19:57:45Z")
Is today some special corn day? What am I missing?😕 ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-corn-but-were-afraid-to-ask/617491/19 "2012-04-01T20:41:21Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Is today some special corn day? What am I missing?😕 Just watch out for stalkers. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-corn-but-were-afraid-to-ask/617491/20 "2012-04-01T20:53:12Z")
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