Back i9n the day, I'd hunt phesant Sat. and Sun. from dawn to sundown walking from field to field. Was a walk of about 10-12 miles all in all. I'd go to a series of feed corn fields first, and strip the dried corn into a hunting jacket pocket, usually a full ear of dry feedcorn. As the day passed, I'd eat a few kernals at a time. Starchy, but ok. Kept my energy up, and that last mile was, especially if I'd bagged a few phesants and a quail or three, as the sun set and the temps dropped like a stone, less tiring.
Anyway, I've sampled corn from all over, and if you cook it in water with quicklime, the starches convert to protine, and pelegra stops being an issue with a high corn diet.
Deep in the heart of the Mexican high desert there were cooked corn sellers. Limewater, with added butter, salt, the fruit lime juice, was the medium, in an old Coke cooler heated from the botton with a charcoal fire. The line in a song "and treating the ladies to coen on the cob..." comes home and made me laugh. The corn was sold a 5 centavos per ear. Or about 2 cents American at the time. BIG spender!
Oh, frest picked sweet corn is very very good, even plain .
