Corn on the cob, OR...........

[Brickbat]

...roasting ears?

[Brickbat]

1. Seriously? No one else says roasting ears?

:yoiks:

[Denninmi]

2. Sorry, tried it, yuck.

Needed sugar. I decided it wasn't for me.

[Brickbat]

4. I'm not talking about EATING, I'm talking about TALKING ABOUT IT.

What do you call them?

[davsand]

8. As an Illinois Farmer's Daughter, I have heard the term used many times.

My dad ALWAYS called them "roasting ears." We used to raise sweet corn for our own use and we'd give away more than we used most years. I jerked more corn than I could ever eat, and you do NOT want to know how much I helped can and freeze over the years...

We always raised a strain called "Illinois Super Sweet" and it has a really high sugar content. EVERYTHING would be sticky when you got done cutting that stuff off the cob. My hair would be stiff, my arms and legs would be sticky, and the kitchen would be a huge sticky mess. Finally, we got to the point that we would work outside so that cleanup would be easier. It was a lot of work, but it was WAY better than anything available in stores* at the time. We ate it all year long, along with the fruit and garden stuff we canned.



Laura



*I think maybe Green Giant now sells it as Super Sweet. Times have changed...

[Brickbat]

9. I was starting to wonder if my people were the only ones!

Grew up in Nebraska. My parents weren't farmers, but my people were. We all said "roasting ears."

[GoneOffShore]

3. Corn on the cob - but grilled either in the husk or out.

That is all.

[Brickbat]

5. Sounds roasted to me.

:hide:

[GoneOffShore]

7. Well yes it does - But the expression "roasting ears" is a bit

"foreign" to some of in the Northeast.

[kentauros]

6. "Roasting ears""

Is that the same as when someone's talking about you?

[madmom]

10. Born and raised on east coast, they were called corn on the cob, now living

in mid west it's called roasting ears. All in all it's still corn and I don't really like it either way.:shrug: