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BainsBane (10,656 posts) Fri Jun 14, 2013, 09:06 PMOdd thing at the supermarket this eveningThey had a sale on fresh corn, ten cents an ear. The produce worker was putting new corn out, and people were standing they shucking their ears of corn and putting the cobs in plastic bags. I'm talking about a big crowd of people. The store had a bin there for people to put their corn husks in. I asked a woman why everyone was shucking the corn in the store rather than at home. She shrugged her shoulders and kept shucking. A few minutes later I was over in the cheese section, and a woman said to me, "I don't understand why they were shucking the corn here either. It's not going to stay fresh. It must be some pack mentality." So apparently people saw others shucking, and started to do the same themselves, to ten and more ears of corn at a time. They couldn't possible be eating them all tonight. Group behavior is odd.
Dalai_1 (912 posts) Fri Jun 14, 2013, 09:11 PM3. Fresh Market has the "on site shucking" available in our area.I assumed it might be if an ear was not okay they didn't have to pay for it..when I inquired it seems most just do not want the shucks/silks in their kitchen or garbage..
Stinky The Clown (51,437 posts) Fri Jun 14, 2013, 09:31 PM4. That's pretty much anywhere in this area. All supermarkets have shucking cans by the cornNone of the farmer's markets do, but all year-round stores do. They same thing takes place where the cabbages are displayed. The outer leaves are pulled off at the store.
TreasonousBastard (21,059 posts) Fri Jun 14, 2013, 10:03 PM7. Having had corn snapped right off the stalk, and...also having it from a supermarket shelf, I'd say any corn older than a half an hour is too old, and once it hits the supermarket it's so far past its prime you can't do much more to it. I will eat that supermarket corn if it's cheap enough, but I don't see any reason to clean silk off my floor, counter, towel holder... and deal with a mountain of husks in my kitchen unless I have tomales on the menu. I usually plan 2-4 ears per person and leftovers can be used.
Warpy (69,600 posts) Fri Jun 14, 2013, 10:25 PM9. Dried corn husks are a big deal here because that's what we wrap tamales in. I don't know if they're recycling them for that purpose or if they've just bowed to the inevitable fact that some people partially shuck ears of corn to find out if the kernels are fully ripe and unblemished by smut (which, by the way, is also edible). Tacky people put the slightly unripe ears back unprotected by the husks where they will dry out.
Boobiez? Does silicone float?
once it hits the supermarket it's so far past its prime you can't do much more to it.
Rare truth from a DUmpmonkey.That supermarket corn was picked somewhere in Guatemala or Nicaragua one day last week. You aren't going to hurt it by shucking at the store.
