On Wed, 04 Sep 2019 22:16:39 -0400,
Joy Beeson wrote:
On Wed, 4 Sep 2019 18:00:25 -0700 (PDT), jbeattie
wrote:

You could break your teeth on field corn.

*Ripe* field corn is hard. At the milk stage it's quite edible
either cooked or raw. Some people prefer field corn to sweet
corn for roasting ears

Yes indeed. My wife grew up on a farm, and late summer every year
"harvests" a few ears from local fields. The eating season here
is pretty much over now.

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Ted Heise West Lafayette, IN, USA