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Default 1st corn-on-the-cob of the year!

On 8/22/2011 5:04 AM, lilycheese wrote:
> 'Kate Connally[_2_ Wrote:
>> ;1650284']On 8/15/2011 3:19 PM, Sqwertz wrote:-
>> On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:22:14 -0400, Kate Connally wrote:
>> -
>> My aunt picked up a dozen ears for me at a local farm
>> stand that we always patronize. The only corn I will buy
>> is from a farm stand or one farm market I frequent. I will
>> not buy corn from the supermarket under any circumstances.-
>>
>> Shramm farm? My brother and I were just talking about them. We lived
>> adjacent to their previous farm.
>>
>> -sw-
>>
>> Yes, Schramm's. But this year their corn is $6.50/doz. and it's
>> no longer a baker's dozen. :-( Of course it's gone up everywhere.
>> The corn I got was $5/doz. - last year it was $4/doz.
>>
>> Kate
>>
>> --
>> Kate Connally
>> “If I were as old as I feel, I’d be dead already.”
>> Goldfish: “The wholesome snack that smiles back,
>> Until you bite their heads off.”
>> What if the hokey pokey really *is* what it's all about?
>>

>
> hmm,agreed


I've seen corn recently for three for a dollar recently in supermarkets
but fresher ears cost me 50 cents each a few days ago at a local
Farmers' Market.

OT, or rather "older topic", three types of donut peach were still on
sale at the market...Good too!

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