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Too Sweet? Aw Shucks.

(69/365) :: Cooking spree!(69/365) :: Cooking spree! by chispita_666 (cc by)

I worked for a seed company in the 1980s. Back then I would've bored you to death with incessant lectures on sweet corn genetics and the wonders of modern plant breeding

mhh5 asks for corn that is starchy and chewy and not particularly sweet, and Lunaloon serves up the (fascinating!) inside line on common corn before "the discovery of the sugary and sugar-enhanced corn genes led to the extra-sweet and super-sweet sweet corns that have replaced the old-style sweet corn"

05/01/19
by taz

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