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On 12 Aug 2004 09:29:22 -0700, (Tony Lew)
wrote:

>sf > wrote in message >. ..
>> On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 02:05:55 GMT, "Edwin Pawlowski"
>> > wrote:
>>
>> > I still salt a baked potato and corn on the
>> > cob, but very little else.
>>
>> Oh, Ed-Ed-Ed.... stop salting that corn. Times have
>> changed! The new commercial corn varieties are absolutely
>> wonderful w/o salt!
>
>That's because the new varieties of corn no longer taste
>like corn - they taste like candy, with no discernable
>corn flavor.

I never understood the quest for sweetness in corn, either by variety
development or how it's cooked. It's a vegetable; I don't want it to
be sweet.

OTOH, I like my desserts sweet.

Sue(tm)
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