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 -- and if it were available, I might too, now that sweet
corn has been bred to be a fair substitute for sugar.

(A friend of a friend got a contract to grow "baby-food corn" one
year. "Corn flour" sounds much better on an ingredient list than
"corn syrup".)

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