LazBro
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Post by LazBro on Nov 14, 2016 11:12:19 GMT -5
It's really about ethics in agricultural journalism.
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Post by Liz n Dick on Nov 14, 2016 11:23:04 GMT -5
This is marvelous!
I do like baby corn in stir-fry, but shouldn't have ever admitted it to Boomer. Strangely, Boomer loathes baby corn (I think she's upset about it being ripped from the arms of its mama?) despite being the biggest corn fan I know. And since telling her that I enjoy it, she tries to foist all the baby corn from her entree every time we get Chinese take-out. So I'll have a plate groaning under the weight of my gluttonous portion, and she'll be like, "Here's all my baby corn!" I like it, but come on. I don't like it that much.
We got a jar of pickled baby corn from our snack-of-the-month club, and months later I still haven't mustered the enthusiasm to try it. So I think my baby corn fondness starts and ends at stir-fry.
I am always weirded out when finding baby corns tucked in with the real stuff when shucking fresh sweet corn in the summer. I sort of operate on the assumption that baby corn is its own strange plant that just looks like tiny corns, you know?
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Post by Some Kind of Munster on Nov 14, 2016 12:00:26 GMT -5
Baby corn is fine but baby carrots can fuck right off.
Baby bok choy is the baby king of vegetables though.
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Post by Pastafarian on Nov 14, 2016 12:12:41 GMT -5
This is marvelous! I do like baby corn in stir-fry, but shouldn't have ever admitted it to Boomer. Strangely, Boomer loathes baby corn (I think she's upset about it being ripped from the arms of its mama?) despite being the biggest corn fan I know. And since telling her that I enjoy it, she tries to foist all the baby corn from her entree every time we get Chinese take-out. So I'll have a plate groaning under the weight of my gluttonous portion, and she'll be like, "Here's all my baby corn!" I like it, but come on. I don't like it that much. We got a jar of pickled baby corn from our snack-of-the-month club, and months later I still haven't mustered the enthusiasm to try it. So I think my baby corn fondness starts and ends at stir-fry. I am always weirded out when finding baby corns tucked in with the real stuff when shucking fresh sweet corn in the summer. I sort of operate on the assumption that baby corn is its own strange plant that just looks like tiny corns, you know? I will stick up for pickled baby corn, worth a try. (the baby corn lobby got to me) |
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Post by The Sensational She-Hulk on Nov 14, 2016 12:13:42 GMT -5
This is marvelous! I do like baby corn in stir-fry, but shouldn't have ever admitted it to Boomer. Strangely, Boomer loathes baby corn (I think she's upset about it being ripped from the arms of its mama?) despite being the biggest corn fan I know. And since telling her that I enjoy it, she tries to foist all the baby corn from her entree every time we get Chinese take-out. So I'll have a plate groaning under the weight of my gluttonous portion, and she'll be like, "Here's all my baby corn!" I like it, but come on. I don't like it that much. We got a jar of pickled baby corn from our snack-of-the-month club, and months later I still haven't mustered the enthusiasm to try it. So I think my baby corn fondness starts and ends at stir-fry. I am always weirded out when finding baby corns tucked in with the real stuff when shucking fresh sweet corn in the summer. I sort of operate on the assumption that baby corn is its own strange plant that just looks like tiny corns, you know? I will stick up for pickled baby corn, worth a try. (the baby corn lobby got to me) Pickled baby corn is excellent in a bloody Mary or a martini. |
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Post by Ron Howard Voice on Nov 14, 2016 12:39:50 GMT -5
Candy corn > baby corn
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Post by Pastafarian on Nov 14, 2016 12:43:26 GMT -5
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Post by LazBro on Nov 14, 2016 12:44:25 GMT -5
...she tries to foist all the baby corn from her entree every time we get Chinese take-out. So I'll have a plate groaning under the weight of my gluttonous portion, and she'll be like, "Here's all my baby corn!" Boomer and I would get along fine. I LOVE baby corn. We used to go to this Mongolian bbq joint that let you build your own stir-fry bowl, and I would pile that shit up with baby corn. Baby corn was also one of the standard mixers in their fried rice, so that was doubly awesome. I am always weirded out when finding baby corns tucked in with the real stuff when shucking fresh sweet corn in the summer. I sort of operate on the assumption that baby corn is its own strange plant that just looks like tiny corns, you know? Ha! Before creating this poll, I actually Wikipedia'd baby corn just to confirm it wasn't, as you say, another vegetable that just looks like corn. This was disappointing, actually, because I'd prepared a good poll option for if that was the case, and now I don't get to use it. |
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Post by LazBro on Nov 14, 2016 12:44:44 GMT -5
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Post by Liz n Dick on Nov 14, 2016 12:49:17 GMT -5
Baby corn is fine but baby carrots can fuck right off. Baby bok choy is the baby king of vegetables though. Baby bok choy RULES. Baby bok choy > candy corn. |
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Post by Some Kind of Munster on Nov 14, 2016 13:10:07 GMT -5
You guys ever find a baby pepper inside a regular pepper? Do those really taste better or does it just seem that way due to the decadence of eating an unborn baby pepper?
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Post by LazBro on Nov 14, 2016 13:59:23 GMT -5
You guys ever find a baby pepper inside a regular pepper? Do those really taste better or does it just seem that way due to the decadence of eating an unborn baby pepper? I do, and for some reason it majorly squicks me out! |
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Post by pairesta on Nov 15, 2016 7:53:00 GMT -5
Baby artichokes, bitches.
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Post by pairesta on Nov 15, 2016 7:55:35 GMT -5
Yeah, I associate baby corn with old school Neptune's Platter style Chinese stir fries of my 80s youth. In fact I don't even think I've ever had it outside of that context. When our fancy local grocery story Central Market first opened, they actually carried real, fresh baby corn, like that you'd have to shuck like regular corn. I'd never seen the real fresh deal.
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Post by ganews on Nov 18, 2016 21:57:34 GMT -5
Giant Peruvian corn > baby corn > candy corn
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Post by Albert Fish Taco on Nov 19, 2016 10:38:43 GMT -5
Yeah, I associate baby corn with old school Neptune's Platter style Chinese stir fries of my 80s youth. In fact I don't even think I've ever had it outside of that context. When our fancy local grocery story Central Market first opened, they actually carried real, fresh baby corn, like that you'd have to shuck like regular corn. I'd never seen the real fresh deal. You know I don't believe I've ever seen baby corn in a non-Chinese food context. In general I'm not big on corn. I think corn on the cob is one of the most overrated foods out there. I should probably prefer baby to full corn since it doesn't have the inedible wastage of cob. |
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Post by songstarliner on Nov 19, 2016 12:28:10 GMT -5
Baby corn smells weird and tastes like can, or hay, or canned hay. Yuck. Pass. *sneaks all my baby corn onto Liz n Dick 's plate* |
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Post by Liz n Dick on Nov 19, 2016 12:38:31 GMT -5
Yeah, I associate baby corn with old school Neptune's Platter style Chinese stir fries of my 80s youth. In fact I don't even think I've ever had it outside of that context. When our fancy local grocery story Central Market first opened, they actually carried real, fresh baby corn, like that you'd have to shuck like regular corn. I'd never seen the real fresh deal. You know I don't believe I've ever seen baby corn in a non-Chinese food context. In general I'm not big on corn. I think corn on the cob is one of the most overrated foods out there. I should probably prefer baby to full corn since it doesn't have the inedible wastage of cob. Hear hear! I am so not a fan of corn on the cob either. It's such an unpleasant eating experience, all messy and getting crap wedged between your teeth, and taking up a huge amount of plate real estate for very little actual food. But corn cut off the cob? Heaven. |
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Post by ganews on Nov 20, 2016 17:29:02 GMT -5
You know I don't believe I've ever seen baby corn in a non-Chinese food context. In general I'm not big on corn. I think corn on the cob is one of the most overrated foods out there. I should probably prefer baby to full corn since it doesn't have the inedible wastage of cob. Hear hear! I am so not a fan of corn on the cob either. It's such an unpleasant eating experience, all messy and getting crap wedged between your teeth, and taking up a huge amount of plate real estate for very little actual food. But corn cut off the cob? Heaven. You need to start growing your own. A fresh ear of sweet corn in boiling water for three minutes is so good you don't need butter. Corn off the cob is only good for going in other stuff, like burritos, casserole, soup. Creamed corn is for old ladies with no teeth. |
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Post by Some Kind of Munster on Nov 21, 2016 9:21:02 GMT -5
Creamed corn is a necessity as it’s the lava in your mashed potato volcano
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Post by Liz n Dick on Nov 21, 2016 9:32:45 GMT -5
You need to start growing your own. A fresh ear of sweet corn in boiling water for three minutes is so good you don't need butter. Corn off the cob is only good for going in other stuff, like burritos, casserole, soup. Creamed corn is for old ladies with no teeth. Oh, I've grown my own corn. (I mean, come ON. Of course I have!) And corn fresh-fresh off the stalk is unparalleled, even when compared to the merely basic-fresh stuff I get from our local farmstand. No question about that. But that said, I still don't like gnawing it off the cob. I'll boil it for three minutes and then zip it off the cob and eat it immediately. It's the same corn, but there's no smashing a corncob into my teeth! Creamed corn, made with kernels just zipped off a super-fresh ear of corn is divine. For the record. All those perfect sweet little kernels simmering in cream just long enough for the cream to thicken a bit... Mmmmm. |
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