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Default Grilled Corn( (WAS what's with peanuts?)

On 2/19/2019 5:04 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2019-02-19 12:20 p.m., Gary wrote:
>> jmcquown wrote:
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>>> I've *never* had freshly picked corn.Â* I didn't grow up on a farm.Â* I
>>> buy corn at the local farm stands or the grocery store.Â* It may have
>>> been picked near here, sure, but I didn't take it from field to table.

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>> Fresh picked is best. From there, the longer you wait to eat it
>> the quality goes down. Probably true with any vegetables if you
>> think about it.
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>> I have been in a cornfield a few times and did pick a fresh ear
>> right off the stalk and eat it. So very good and tasty. No need
>> to cook it. Just like eating a fresh garden tomato.Â*

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> Many vegetables are so much better when freshly picked. That is one of
> the reasons so many people go to the work to maintain a garden.
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I remember going to Styer's Orchards many years ago. There was a bin of
corn from the day before but many of us waited for the tractor to come
back from the field with the fresh picked.