Phew - what a scorcher (tm) !

I thought Jim was into cooking - or is it just the eating ? Or maybe you meant something about the quality of his cooking ? :~)

Graham

Well, I like it boiled (the good corn anyway). Or nuked, if I'm only doing one (but a large number can be done in the same time in water).

There's a way that it's done on a BBQ where they partially unhusk it, remove the silk, soak it in water, push the husk back, then BBQ it, but all that work seems a bit silly, especially considering it doesn't cook it nearly as evenly. In some places they put mayo or chili peppers on corn-on-the-cob, but usually they use pretty nasty tough corn. Perhaps halfway between the sweet bicolour varieties and "cow corn" raised for animal feed.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

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Most of my relatives on my Mom's side are farmers in southern Minnesota - The Valley of the Jolly Green Giant(tm) ;-) - and when I was growing up, we were always around farms, and I only heard of two kinds of corn - "sweet corn" and "cow's corn", which are presumably people food and cow food. :-)

Cheers! Rich

I do it in about 4 minutes in the microwave. It's especially good if it's buttered first. :-)

(plus, it's more environmentally friendly. ;-) )

Cheers! Rich

Well, I don't think I'd like corn that was boiled in wine. ;-)

Cheers! Rich

I was taught that a comma shouldn't be put between the subject of a sentence and the verb.

Cheers! Rich

That definitely makes sense.

Graham

I know what you were driving at... except it doesn't happen with fresh corn... ours are typical one day from the field. On the other hand you live in the world of "truck-it-in", where the corn is just shy of rot ;-)

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An agnostic about global warming! Just wait until the Greenland ice cap melts with trillions of tons of fresh water pouring into the North Atlantic causing the warm salty water of the Gulf Stream to be diverted southward. You ain't seen nothin yet! England, much of Europe and Eastern North America are in for a rude shock as freezing temperatures and record cold grips the region in a mini ice age. Global warning means more than simply heat. It means disruption of climatic systems we have relied upon for centuries. It also means hot deserts expanding into many productive agricultural regions. And, it means wild oscillations of heat and cold, hurricanes, massive storms, drought, excessive rain, in short, more extremes in every direction and that's what we are seeing. Bob

Please observe the above. A true example of the ultimate in brain-washing. Probably helped because the subject NEVER EVER read a history book ;-)

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John

Sonewhere recently I recall him posting the statement that "I don't cook." So I take his cooking tips with a degree of moderation.

And the hot water does leach sugar out of the corn, boiling or not.

John

Only if the corn is dried out from being on the shelf too long.

We eat the "bicolour" stuff that Spehro mentioned.

...Jim Thompson

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John

You can't possibly know that. And "what we are seeing" is actually pretty bland, from a historical perspective.

It's interesting that every projected consequence of the hypothetical "global warming" is predicted to be bad. That follows from the quasi-religious environmentalist belief that nature is perfect and humans are evil.

John

And, with the belief that it MUST have been caused by our use of fossil fuels. No other factors or causes are allowed. And, if you should by chance have research that says otherwise, your funding shall be cut immediately! But,if you can generate a study that indicates it IS our fault, you get double funding...

Charlie

How about "How Climate Change Harms the Poor". Since most every other change enriches the already rich and costs the poor, it should be a snap to show lots of evidence (plus there seems to be a surfeit of poor folks in low-lying areas). The inevitable result will be that few with influence will want to do much of anything about it, and more money should be available for further lucrative studies.

One possible positive effect is the eventual year-round opening of shipping lanes through far-northern Canadian territorial waters (between Europe and Asia). Tough luck for the polar bears, but they're not all that friendly anyhow.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

The polar bears never bother to register so they can vote, either. ;-)

Lots of Siberia will grow crops and such if things warm up a bit. New England might become habitable. Nobody knows what the signs of various effects might be, much less the magnitudes.

Polar bears are one of the few critters on the planet that will stalk and eat humans. They're not very picky.

John