“cattle feed”, generally. Never had it, never seen it, wouldn’t even know where to get it.
Really? It’s in your supermarket, in the fresh veg section.
Thought I’d mention corn dollies. Just because they’re cool.
Interesting, here sweetcorn is that wonderful stuff on the cob that is best from a roadside stand and fresh picked that day. There are some varieties that are incredibly sweet
Sweetcorn is any corn (“maize”) edible by humans. The corn is harvested early, while it is still “sweet”; i.e., before all the sugar turns to starch. This corn is harvested in August. Corn that is left in the field until October or later is not edible by us. That corn is fed to the animals, used for corn oil, or other corn uses. If you pick an ear of corn soon after it appears on the plant, it is edible raw. Those small ears can be found in stores in various concoctions. That’s the corn often found in Chinese foods.
BTW, corn not harvested early and left for feed for cattle is sometimes called “field corn.”
I was once in a Bible study reading my New English Version translation - printed for the UK market - and received much grief because it referred to sowing corn. “They didn’t have corn back then!” they all said, chuckling at the supposed anachronism. I tried to explain that ‘corn’ was generic for ‘grain’ in British English, but they didn’t trust my translation after that.
I know how to make those (the lantern type) - it’s surprisingly simple (although I usually make them out of water rushes.
It’s not all exactly the same thing - there are varieties that have been optimised for each particular kind of use - super-sweet ones that don’t quickly turn to starch, others that form a larger number of cobs ideal for harvesting as baby corn (but would be inferior if left to grow to full size, others that are best for popping, and so on.
Except by the pompous bastards at the University of Michigan. They refer to that hideous, eye-searing YELLOW they use for their athletic teams as “maize.” I’ve seen comments by grads/followers of Michigan State to the effect of: “Leave it to UM to use the term ‘maize’ when the word ‘yellow’ would do just fine.” I echo that sentiment.
Googling suggests they use ffcb05 and at least one place calls that “vivid yellow.” Although I see a hint that it’s different between academic and athletic use, so I assume it’s the former.
Maize color I would see as less saturated or darker.
And breakfast cereal made from maize is called Cornflakes in the UK, just as in America.
And in cans advertised by the Jolly Green Giant on telly for years, and on your pizza and in the freezer section of the supermarket. Do you not get out much?
And, true to form, the ad in that link works the punny names to the max: “Amazing Cornish Maize Maze”
They are quite popular in California too, so not only in the Midwest, BTW.
Do you live in Antarctica?:dubious:
Just to confuse things, something that saved lives and then took more was when folks learned to corn gunpowder.
Corned gunpowder is really the thing that changed the course of the world.
They say that Jimmy cracked it, but I don’t care.
Just to go against the trend a little:
Growing up in Ireland, I always understand “corn” to mean maize. In fact, we never used the word maize, because we referred to it as corn. I have never heard anyone use the word corn - unqualified and standing alone - to refer to any other kind of grain or crop.
So it seems to me that the word nowadays means the same thing in Ireland as it does in America.
I was wondering at the start of this thread what type of corn Trevelyan was being a dick about. Thanks for reminding me to check. I looked and wiki says maize. Irish song, 1970s, doesn’t sound like it’s intended to be ambiguous.
Heh heh, Trevelyan is a Cornish name. And it was covered by Barleycorn.
Am sure this isn’t a national standard, but in Australian terminology, farmers plant maize, fed to livestock it’s usually called maize, but consumers refer to the kernels as corn.