SC's at the Farmers Market

[Tanasi]

The kids and I were up before daylight this morning pulling sweet corn and loading new taters, okra, yellow squash, maters, green beans, brocoli, fresh dill, cucs, and some other assorted vegis all from our garden. We arrive 30 minutes before opening and get setup. We really don't raise the extra vegis to sell, what we don't use and family can't use we try to sell and donate the rest to the food bank, and what money we make is split up between the children.
Anyways back on subject, an hour before close (noon) this yankee woman asks my youngest daughter Z (8) for some corn. Z takes the woman by the hand and leads her over to the corn and tells her to take her pick but the butter and cream corn is the best tasting.

YW: I want corn not cucumbers.
Z: That is corn cucumbers are over there (pointing to the other end).
YW: Little girl I want corn and that's not corn, where's your father?
Z: Daddy this lady wants to talk to you.
Me: What can I do for you.
YW: I wanted some corn but your daughter keeps trying to sell me cucumbers.
Me: That's corn right in front of you. That's Silver Queen, Yellow Gold, and that's butter and cream.
YW: I want corn and that's not corn you stupid rednecks are trying to steal from people and I'm going to report you to Reverand Anderson. (Walks away in a huff).
About 15 minutes later, the Right Rev:
RR: Mr. Tanasi, Mrs something-ski says you're trying to rip her off by selling cucumbers as corn.
Me: No I'm trying to sell her corn she's just too stupid to know corn when she sees it. (I really said that and loud enough for her to hear me say it.)
RR: What were you showing her? (I walk him over to the corn.)
Me: There, three kinds of sweet corn.
YW: See he's trying to sell cucumbers as corn.
RR: Mrs. something-ski that's corn.
YW: No it's not.
Me: Lady it's still in the shuck you have to shuck it before you get to the corn. (And I shuck an ear of corn.) See.
YW: (Sputtering) Well how am I susposed to know that?
Me: You might have asked before you started accusing me of crime. Now do you want corn or not?:headdesk:
YW: Well not with that attitude I'll take my business elsewhere.
Me: Then go and leave me alone.

Now having typed all that I have a question. You yankee and city folk do know that corn come in a wrapper besides plastic don't you?

[El Barto]

:D Some people are just stupid. I guess you'd call me a Yankee since I've lived in Albany, NY my whole life, and I know what corn still in the shuck looks like. I also know that cucumbers look nothing like corn that is in shuck.

[Juwl]

Damn straight I do. But, then again, I've spent days out on the porch shucking cobs for my mom's daycare, back when she had one. Mmm, fresh corn is so much better than packaged corn. Then again, I'm also originally from California, so, I might not count as being strickly a Yank... I'm not sure.

[Seanette]

:D Some people are just stupid. I guess you'd call me a Yankee since I've lived in Albany, NY my whole life, and I know what corn still in the shuck looks like. I also know that cucumbers look nothing like corn that is in shuck.
Same here. Different color and texture, etc. One would expect someone buying fresh produce to have some clue what they're looking at or what they're looking for looks like, but maybe I'm overestimating people again.

[Broomjockey]

I know, but I had the advantage of my grandparents having a decent sized bit of land around their house, just enough to grow vegetables, including corn. Fresh corn on the cob with butter all over was the best thing ever when I went there. Was about the only thing I did like about going there.

[beercashier]

Reporting in from Pennsylvania to report that I know corn comes in a husk.

I always think about how we buy carrots now. My children aren't going to know what a carrot really looks like, the are going to think they are those baby ones!

[Slave to the Phone]

The kids and I were up before daylight this morning pulling sweet corn and loading new taters, okra, yellow squash, maters, green beans, brocoli, fresh dill, cucs, and some other assorted vegis all from our garden.

Where do you live and how could I go about getting some of your fresh veggies?

You yankee and city folk do know that corn comes in a wrapper besides plastic don't you?

Many of the city kids I've met do not understand that KFC sells dead chickens. They also do not understand that hamburgers include dead cows.

I'm very sure that they wouldn't understand the difference between unshucked corn and a raw cucumber. On the other hand, they wouldn't even think about eating fresh food, so wouldn't complain about what was in their bag because they wouldn't have one.

[Enjis]

Oh for gosh sakes! I grew up in Detroit, and I have known what fresh corn was all my life! We never had it unshucked, and in plastic...it just wasn't sold that way.
We kids always got the job of shucking the corn before dinner...
That was one heck of a Sucky Customer!!

[norrina]

Now having typed all that I have a question. You yankee and city folk do know that corn come in a wrapper besides plastic don't you?

We had a sizeable garden, growing up in Maine, complete with a quantity of corn.

I find your reference to "Yankees" a bit off-putting, in its context, to be honest.

[Slave to the Phone]

I find your reference to "Yankees" a bit off-putting, in its context, to be honest.

I understood just what was meant by the term and being a Yankee myself thought it was appropriate.

IMO, if you have problems with a post and/or term, it would be best to contact the Forum Mods. Lets not start a new BB by fighting amounst ourselves.

[ExHDCashier]

The kids and I were up before daylight this morning pulling sweet corn and loading new taters, okra, yellow squash, maters, green beans, brocoli, fresh dill, cucs, and some other assorted vegis all from our garden. We arrive 30 minutes before opening and get setup. We really don't raise the extra vegis to sell, what we don't use and family can't use we try to sell and donate the rest to the food bank, and what money we make is split up between the children.
Anyways back on subject, an hour before close (noon) this yankee woman asks my youngest daughter Z (8) for some corn. Z takes the woman by the hand and leads her over to the corn and tells her to take her pick but the butter and cream corn is the best tasting.

YW: I want corn not cucumbers.
Z: That is corn cucumbers are over there (pointing to the other end).
YW: Little girl I want corn and that's not corn, where's your father?
Z: Daddy this lady wants to talk to you.
Me: What can I do for you.
YW: I wanted some corn but your daughter keeps trying to sell me cucumbers.
Me: That's corn right in front of you. That's Silver Queen, Yellow Gold, and that's butter and cream.
YW: I want corn and that's not corn you stupid rednecks are trying to steal from people and I'm going to report you to Reverand Anderson. (Walks away in a huff).
About 15 minutes later, the Right Rev:
RR: Mr. Tanasi, Mrs something-ski says you're trying to rip her off by selling cucumbers as corn.
Me: No I'm trying to sell her corn she's just too stupid to know corn when she sees it. (I really said that and loud enough for her to hear me say it.)
RR: What were you showing her? (I walk him over to the corn.)
Me: There, three kinds of sweet corn.
YW: See he's trying to sell cucumbers as corn.
RR: Mrs. something-ski that's corn.
YW: No it's not.
Me: Lady it's still in the shuck you have to shuck it before you get to the corn. (And I shuck an ear of corn.) See.
YW: (Sputtering) Well how am I susposed to know that?
Me: You might have asked before you started accusing me of crime. Now do you want corn or not?:headdesk:
YW: Well not with that attitude I'll take my business elsewhere.
Me: Then go and leave me alone.

Now having typed all that I have a question. You yankee and city folk do know that corn come in a wrapper besides plastic don't you?
are you from jersey selling that Silver Queen.... cause if so Jersey corn is the BEST!!

[Kiwi]

hey im a city girl born and raised

and even I know that CORN comes in a green husk....

and I am SO in love with you for using the word yankee *swoons* (not american so yankee is still a romantic gone with the wind term for me)

[Knightmare]

Now having typed all that I have a question. You yankee and city folk do know that corn come in a wrapper besides plastic don't you?


I am a transplanted yankee. Did you know that we do, in fact, grow corn up north? My family has grown corn for as long as I can remember. We have always had a vegetable garden, and there is nothing like fresh corn you shucked yourself. Down here, however, we gave it up :(

Do the "suthners" down here know that books are for more than just leveling a table? ;)

[Dark Psion]

We have a Farmer's Market outside the store on Wednesday and Saturday. Of course this year, with the drought we are in, we have had only one farmer show up so far and the last three weekends, nobody showed up.

Well, no farmers showed up. Lots of SCs who come into the store and want to know where the farmers are. This is especially annoying since we have nothing to do with the farmer's market, it is run by the city. We just let them do it on our sidewalk.

(They did try to move it once to a newly built plaza downtown, but noone would go over there. They all kept coming back to us, it think they are addicted to our popcorn :p )

[HYHYBT]

Do the "suthners" down here know that books are for more than just leveling a table?Yup. They's got purty pichers innem, too :)

I've often seen corn in the grocery store still in the husk. No resemblance at all to a cucumber, but then if you don't know what one looks like why would you recognize the other? I've also, from time to time, read books. But then, depending on how you count I'm half-Yankee anyway.

(boring explanation: Dad's dad from New York, Dad's Mom from Ohio, Mom's Dad from North Carolina, Mom's Mom from Georgia. Dad's family left the north when he was four. He's in a Confederate band, they play nothing ,instruments or music, newer than 1870 or so and dress up and do reenactments and whatnot)

[Rapscallion]

How much corn could an SC shuck, if an SC could shuck corn?

Ah, takes me back to when I came up with that some years ago.

Raspcallion

[BlaqueKatt]

I refuse to buy "pre-shucked" corn due to the fact that as soon as the kernals are exposed to the air the sugars in them beging to oxidize into starch and starch is not sweet. I just found that out recently and the last few times I bought corn I waited until right before it went in the water to shuck it, and it was the same as when I was a kid(my mom always did the same-and I never realised why my corn didn't taste like I remembered it as a kid). funny thing is I see tons of people at the store franticly shucking corn before they bag it, and it's not like it's sold by weight, I guess they just don't like "sweet corn" <shrug>

BlaqueKatt-a yankee with a southern accent for some reason.....

[Brighid45]

Yankee born and bred here (a native Michigander) and I didn't take offense at the term as used, I understand what you meant. :) We always grew our own corn. My job was to shuck ears for dinner, and also for the corn we blanched and froze to use in the wintertime.

It's okay not to know about things--we all start out not knowing. But to jump the gun the way that lady did and accuse you of dishonesty--that was definitely SC behavior. And then not to admit she was wrong and apologize or laugh about it--I feel bad for her family having to put up with her, she's a nasty old bat.

Anyway, I was really glad to hear you contribute to your local food bank. Well done! :)

[Tanasi]

The definition of a yankee: If you weren't born within VA, NC, SC, GA, FL, AL, MS, LA, TX, AR, or TN then you are a yankee. We have been know to make exceptions for somefolk that have a southern state-of-mind. A damnyankee is one of the above that moves here to stay. Florida is full of damnyankees.
To answer another question I'm not in nor from New Jersey nor do I have a desire to do so. I'm from Rocky Top (google that if you don't know of where I speak). Seed corn can be from anywhere but it's the envioronment that makes the difference. I've saving seed for years but I think with some cross pollination the Silver Queen I raise is different. The butter and cream corn is new for this year, it's very sweet and my cattle really like the shucks and stalks but they don't turn down any corn related forage.
Next question, yes I've very aware of the purposes of books, I have an extensive library. I'm a technical person so sometimes my grammer and spelling skills are not what I would like them to be when I'm in a hurry.
Next question, yes I do know that some of you yankee folk make garden or at least pittle at it. The particular yankee I was typing about was a Boston yankee. I doubt that she had ever been outside before that morning.
Unfortunatly the farmers at the farmers markets in this area have been sparce. I have a well that I used to irragate my fields so the drought didn't bother me as much. The corn I'm raising for silage is suffering for lack of water, but alas it's too far to irrigate. Luckily the hay crop was very good so it might have to make up for the lack of silage, however that will mean I have less hay if any to sell.

[Becks]

Now having typed all that I have a question. You yankee and city folk do know that corn come in a wrapper besides plastic don't you?


Having been born and raised in WI (that's the Yankee part:D ), and having spent a lot of my life in or near Milwaukee (city folk:p ), I feel free to answer your question.

Yes, I DO know that corn comes in a wrapper besides plastic. At the grocery store I work at now, they're selling un-shucked corn. It's OBVIOUS what it is.

Any person who can't tell the difference between un-shucked corn and cucumbers had better be blind, or else there is NO excuse for such headache-inducing stupidity.

[sportsmom]

I live in Indiana now and I don't think anyone here doesn't know what corn looks like on the stalk. All we have between here (North-Central) and Indianapolis are corn and soybean fields. Here we do have some mint fields also, though. Very nice to drive by, the smell is great.

I grew up in the south and most of my aunts and uncles had gardens and so did my grandparents. I have cousins who have said they will never again shuck corn or snap beans again. When you grow up and have to do things by the bushel, it gets to be a pain. I don't mind the corn and snapping beans so much, it's the shelling peas that gets to me.

Fresh corn cooked on the grill is the best. :D

[csdrone]

Having been born and raised in WI (that's the Yankee part:D ), and having spent a lot of my life in or near Milwaukee (city folk:p ), I feel free to answer your question.

Yes, I DO know that corn comes in a wrapper besides plastic. At the grocery store I work at now, they're selling un-shucked corn. It's OBVIOUS what it is.

Any person who can't tell the difference between un-shucked corn and cucumbers had better be blind, or else there is NO excuse for such headache-inducing stupidity.

Ummm. :headdesk: That is one stupid SC. All the Yankees I know (Michigan, Iowa (farmers), Illinois, California and even New York City) would have died laughing. :lol: I need to tell my in-laws that story now. My sympathy Tanasi.

[MystyGlyttyr]

It's not just yanks who can be utterly stupid...southern city folk can be kind of dumb to how the world works, too. My family loves to joke about the city folk who come down into the boonies where we live and have heart attacks when they see turkeys sitting in the treetops.

"How'd that turkey get up there?!"
"He flew."
"Turkeys can fly?!?!"
"Well, we had to rig them up with some little engines and propellers, but..."

Along the same token, I was born and raised in Arkansas, and I freely admit I was stunned on a visit to northern Michigan when I saw "snowmobile parking". The friend I was visiting was quite amused at getting to explain to me that in the winter months, the area was so deep in snow that snowmobiles were the only possible mode of transportation. I see snow maybe once every three years and I've never seen a snowmobile, how should I know?? :lol:

We'll not even get into the face of horror I made when she told me about the school buses driving over lakes in winter...

[XCashier]

The kids and I were up before daylight this morning pulling sweet corn and loading new taters, okra, yellow squash, maters, green beans, brocoli, fresh dill, cucs, and some other assorted vegis all from our garden.
:drools:

You yankee and city folk do know that corn come in a wrapper besides plastic don't you?
Yes, and I also know the difference between rough, ridged corn husks and the smooth, shiny cucumber skin. This woman was just an idiot, and a SC to boot.

Fresh corn cooked on the grill is the best. :D
I've heard that you can barbecue corn in its husk and it turns out well. Has anyone here ever done that?

[Primer]

I've heard that you can barbecue corn in its husk and it turns out well. Has anyone here ever done that?

Yes, and it's yummy! Just be sure to use indirect heat.

I wonder if that other lady (?) has ever eaten a tamale? Did she think it was wrapped in cucumber skins, and tried to eat the wrapper?

[Titi]

How dense can someone be?

When I worked at a summer camp (in the dining hall) we had to shuck corn every sunday because we would have a big picnic with fresh sweet corn.

Even the kids from the most inner of the inner city did not think that they were cucumbers. They asked what they were and when we said corn, they said nah, show me. So we did. (These kids actually got permission from the camp director to skip swimming and shuck corn with us because they thought it was so cool. :) )

[LostMyMind]

Yes, and it's yummy! Just be sure to use indirect heat.
Well, direct heat pretty good too. just soak the corn (with husk on) and throw it in the coals.

[MamaMootz]

I am a Yankee born and bred - living in New Jersey and I can't believe this SC didn't know the difference between corn in the HUSK and cucumbers! Where the hell did this person grow up?

Even in the grocery stores these days, they sell corn in the husk. Most people shuck it in the store, but they can recognize that it's corn.

Didn't this person ever see the pretty, tall green stalks growing out of the ground on farms with the pretty green pods hanging from them? Duh - she has to have driven by at least one cornfield in her lifetime!

:salmon: for her!

[KuzcoLlama]

Yes, and it's yummy! Just be sure to use indirect heat.

I wonder if that other lady (?) has ever eaten a tamale? Did she think it was wrapped in cucumber skins, and tried to eat the wrapper?

That's what I was going to say. The mexicanos (:: points to self:: ) in my family make tamales every year for the superbowl. And you can still seen corn wrapped in the husks at any regular grocery store. Did this woman never go on shopping trips with her parents?!

Or was I the only one at age five who liked the grocery store cause it was colorful? :D

[karma_gypsy]

YW: I want corn and that's not corn you stupid rednecks are trying to steal from people and I'm going to report you to Reverand Anderson. (Walks away in a huff).



I love the fact that she saying that is not corn and the fact that she's calling you guys stupid rednecks, like she she's the all-knowing, all-powerful farming goddess, geesh . . .

How could you try and sell something that looks like corn, smells like corn, tastes like corn, feels like corn, grows like corn, is the same color as corn, has the husk like corn, has the same atomic structure as corn . . . it must be cucumber?


Not only was she an SC, she takes moronity to a whole new level. Here's your sign, lady.

[April]

Nothing better than fresh corn from the famers market. That lady is an idiot

[Tanasi]

It's not just yanks who can be utterly stupid...southern city folk can be kind of dumb to how the world works, too. My family loves to joke about the city folk who come down into the boonies where we live and have heart attacks when they see turkeys sitting in the treetops.

"How'd that turkey get up there?!"
"He flew."
"Turkeys can fly?!?!"
"Well, we had to rig them up with some little engines and propellers, but..."

Along the same token, I was born and raised in Arkansas, and I freely admit I was stunned on a visit to northern Michigan when I saw "snowmobile parking". The friend I was visiting was quite amused at getting to explain to me that in the winter months, the area was so deep in snow that snowmobiles were the only possible mode of transportation. I see snow maybe once every three years and I've never seen a snowmobile, how should I know?? :lol:

We'll not even get into the face of horror I made when she told me about the school buses driving over lakes in winter...

Well I'll admit to some ignorance. When I was a kid there wasn't any wild big game to speak of, it had been hunted out of existenance. That being said when I returned from RVN in 73 I was quail hunting with my grandfather and middle brother. As we were walking down a powerline clearcut we jumped some big bird that flew a few hundred yards and lit. I didn't know what it was so I didn't shoot, and the same for my brother. Gramps said that's a buzzard and it's hurt, the next time it jumps up shoot it. Well we jump it and and we turn loose on it and it kept going, flew a few hundred yards and lit. We try this until we run out of shells and never even draw a feather. We glumly return to the house and proceed to tell my Dad of our adventure. Dad said that wasn't a buzzard that was a turkey, brother "Turkey's can fly?"
Now my igonorance we had domesticated turkeys, and I knew there was such a thing a wild turkeys but not around here. Our turkeys didn't fly so I the thought of wild turkeys flying never enter my mind.
Nowdays we daily see a flock of 5 hens and about 30 to 40 polts and numerous toms and jakes. We occasionally see deer but the sub-divisions have run off most of them. The coons are becoming pests, the possums are just nasty. However we've got plenty of song birds, turkle dove, squirrel, and rabbit. We also have a few of those local giant Canadian geese and various kinds of migrating waterfowl.
I can forgive ignorance we're all afflicted with it, and it can be cured with a little education. Stupid just goes straight to the bone and the only cure is quick and painless death.

[Kiwi]

best way to cook corn

grill/nuke/bake in the husk.... steams the corn in its own juices

yummmmmm

[real people person]

checking in from New Jersey ( THE Garden State) to say that I should be shocked that someone wouldn't know what fresh corn looked like, but i'm not because out here in the sticks -- right next to a huge Six Flags Park, we get alot of tourists from NY and they are very ignorant about anything even slightly nature-y ( is that a dee- uh? no, it's a bay-uh-- lets go pet it!!):super: you're an idiot. or as we like to say around here, Welcome to New Jersey, now go home.

[Cutenoob]

My first thought to the Dumb Woman would be:

Do cukes have hairs on their ends?

Corn does!!!!!

I've never seen an ear of corn still wrapped up withOUT the silks tangled around it.

So fie on you woman.

Here in Alaska, we grow some kickass cabbages, rhubarb and lots of root veggies. We can do some corn, but not much.

[Candlelightview]

Wow that's pretty sad that she didn't know.. yeesh.
(Then again, I'm from the south *Yay Alabama* so yah, I KNOW what corn is, lol)

[Barefootgirl]

We don't even grow very much maize here in England but even I know the difference between corn and cucumbers...I actually can't get my head around the cucumber bit, to be honest. OK, it might not look like the sort of corn you're used to, but it doesn't look like ANY cucumber i've ever seen !

[digilight]

Oh god, now I'm craving BBQ'd corn. Just peel the husk back, pull off the silk, replace the husk and toss on the grill, about 15-20 minutes per side, yummie (if you don't soak the husk first though it gets a little crispy and you get flaky ashes that can come off on the corn. As for the tamales, the wife, MIL, and I usually make a whole butt load of em around the holidays and we are as wonderbread as they come. About 6 years ago when we bought our first condo we asked our realtor (mexican friend of ours) to teach us how.

Side note: I never realized that I was a yankee (coming from Southern California). Can I still be a read neck at heart???:devil:

[protege]

Reporting in from Pennsylvania to report that I know corn comes in a husk.

Hehe fresh corn tastes better than store-packaged stuff. Grandpa and I used to hit the farm markets all the time. That is, when his own gardens weren't producing much. At one time, his entire back yard we veggies--you name it, we probably had it. Throw in the sunflowers (mainly for seeds) and we were all set:-) Shame he couldn't work on that during the last few years of his life though :-(

[PuckishOne]

Yeah, I gotta second Cutenoob on this: Anyone who thinks that cucumbers are light green/yellow-ish, streaky, and have silk sticking out the ends has been munching on some nasty veggies!! :eek: Methinks the SC in question had never been any closer to veggies than the cans in the supermarket!

And now I too have a massive craving for some grilled sweet corn... *drools*

[Sphinx]

And now I too have a massive craving for some grilled sweet corn... *drools*
Mmmmmmmmmm had some just last night!:D

[Tanasi]

Growing up we didn't have grilled corn we had roastin ears. We would pull back the shucks, clean-off the silks, deworm if necessary, do a little trimming, pull the shucks back over the ear and soak the whole thing in cool branch water for about 30 minutes. Grill over medium heat turning it 90degrees every 6 to 8 minutes. I like to butter mine first but some don't like that.

Have you ever tried fried sweet corn?

6 ears of sweet corn
few table spoons of butter but I prefer hog-lard (tastes much better).
1 cup of milk
1 cup of water
2 table spoons of flour
1 teaspoon of raw sugar
salt and pepper to taste

Cut the corn off the cobs and besure to scrape the cobs for the milkly substances.
Heat an iron skillet over medium heat until water droplets dance across it.
melt the butter/lard making sure to coat the entire inside of the skillet.
Add the corn, milk, water, flour, sugar and stir until it boils
Reduce heat, cover, and simmer until tender (about 20 to 25 minutes).
If it's too thick add a little moo-juice or water, if too thin simmer a little while with the lid off or mix a little corn-starch with a little water and stir it in. Remove from heat and let it stand for about 5 minutes. Don't put the salt in until the end because it will make the corn tough.
What ever you do, do not put in a bowl and set it on your head because your tongue will beat your brains out getting to it.
I really like this corn with new potatos, grilled squash/zucuinnie/brocoli/califlower/onions or pan-fried okra, green beans, some fresh hog meat (I prefer boneless chops or jawl) or pot roast, fresh home-made biscuits or cornbread (it seems I have a lot of corn in my diet). This kinda of eatin is gar-on-teed to give you a nice shiney coat, pink cheeks (both for and aft), grease up your innards for a good bm, and make you fat and happy. You can have that gormet stuff (a whole lot of money and very little food) I'll take country cookin.:angel:
Suggests for the left over corn (if any) mix in some with your corn bread fixins, a little bacon grease or straight lard, cracklins, chopped jalapenos (with or without seeds and membranes), either sour-cream or butter-milk to wet it and an aig. Grease up said iron skillet and heat in an 375 oven, once hot pour in all the above and bake for about 12 to 15 minutes or until golden brown on top. Cut into wedges and serve with fresh butter.
Damn I gotta go I'm hungry. :wave:

Digi I suppose you can be a read neck at heart the prefered term is red-neck but whatever floats your boat.

[MamaMootz]

right next to a huge Six Flags Park, we get alot of tourists from NY and they are very ignorant about anything even slightly nature-y .... or as we like to say around here, Welcome to New Jersey, now go home.

From one Jersey-ite to another: How ya doin?

I am further north and west than you - I know which Six Flags Park (the only one here, ha).

I have a great t-shirt that I found on line that is black with NEW JERSEY spelled out in white and surrounded by the flames of Hell with a pitchfork. Underneath that it says, "Where the weak are killed and eaten". I will never throw this shirt away and am taking it with me as we move across the country in 2 weeks. You can take the Mootz out of NJ but you can't take the NJ out of Mootz.

[Lehk]

You yankee and city folk do know that corn come in a wrapper besides plastic don't you?

AHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAH

here in the upstate new york 'burbs all the corn i have ever seen for sale comes un-shucked except the nasty-ass frozen proto-corn

[Acolyte]

I didn't even know they sold pre-shucked corn that didn't come in a can or frozen in a baggie. :eek:

[Kogarashi]

I've seen the plastic-wrapped "fresh" cobs in the grocery store before. Usually, it's right next to the corn in the husk. :D And I've had to deal with customers at Wal-Mart rabidly husking their corn at the corn bins before putting it in produce bags. What annoyed me most about them was the fact that they'd leave the husks lying all over the grocery department, rather than taking the time to actually throw them away.

You'd think in Boston, that lady would still have seen un-husked corn.

[SteverinoNY!]

AHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAH

here in the upstate new york 'burbs all the corn i have ever seen for sale comes un-shucked except the nasty-ass frozen proto-corn

Where in upstate Lehk? I live in the good ol Capital District in a small town called Brunswick and we have corn out the wazoo. In fact, I live right across the street (if u can call the barely paved tractor trail a street) from about 80 acres of corn. MMMM fresh illegally picked corn MMMM lol. Not all of us New Yorkers live in the concrete jungle that is NYC. You go a few hours north of where I live and some people don't have running water, let alone cable tv lol. Its a diverse as hell state we live in in New York.

[Jester]

The definition of a yankee: If you weren't born within VA, NC, SC, GA, FL, AL, MS, LA, TX, AR, or TN then you are a yankee. We have been know to make exceptions for somefolk that have a southern state-of-mind.

Ahem...not quite. Do not include the whole country in your North-South border skirmish. I myself, while currently residing in Florida, am from Arizona, which makes me neither a Yankee nor a Southerner, but a Westerner. (I am from so far West, we refer to Texans as EASTERNERS! Much to their dismay, of course!) Out West, we could give two hoo hahs about the whole North South thing, couldn't care less about that Manson-Nixon line, and frankly, are more interested in who is buying the next round of margaritas! :lol:

As for corn, I have always been a suburban boy, never living in the country, and even my mallrat butt knows what unshucked corn looks like! Geez! That woman definitely needed not only lessons in food, but a a serious broomstickectomy!

[Pagan]

I agree with Jester. I'm a born and raised New Mexican from the southern part of the state. We refer to Texans as "damnTexans", one word!

I don't think where that dink of a woman was from is actually the problem. She's just an out and out idiot. But I will say that we have the most problems here with transplanted New Yorkers, but they're mostly from NYC. For the longest time there's been rumors that a lot of people that live in Rio Rancho are in witness protection because there's so many that sound like "wiseguys"! :p

The funniest thing I've ever heard was what the wife of a man my mom worked with said. Not long after she moved here she saw her first roadrunner....and said "That's the scrawniest chicken I've ever seen"! :lol:

[PhotoChick]

Off topic but my parents just bought a house in Rio Rancho and when they move down there they'll probably contribute to the stupid quote (Sorry!) But they'd never say anything like that.

[Jpurple]

The definition of a yankee: If you weren't born within VA, NC, SC, GA, FL, AL, MS, LA, TX, AR, or TN then you are a yankee. We have been know to make exceptions for somefolk that have a southern state-of-mind. A damnyankee is one of the above that moves here to stay. Florida is full of damnyankees.
I dunno- I think that one depends on your perspective- as a kid, we referred to anyone on the southern side of the 49th parallel as a Yankee! But we also find it amusing to refer to ourselves as Canucks...

And how can anyone not know what fresh corn looks like? It's one of the most widely-distributed fresh vegetables out there- we can buy it in supermarkets in Bangkok, for crying out loud- and it's certainly not native to Thailand!

[Cia]

I could understand her problems if it had been one of the more exotic fruits/vegetables out there, ie. lychee, starfruit or asian pears. But corn? Makes you wonder what kind of rock she's been living under.

In my garden I have Indian corn, lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, carrots, peas, potatoes and squash. Plus a bumper crop of sticky weeds.

[Tanasi]

Ahem...not quite. Do not include the whole country in your North-South border skirmish. I myself, while currently residing in Florida, am from Arizona, which makes me neither a Yankee nor a Southerner, but a Westerner. (I am from so far West, we refer to Texans as EASTERNERS! Much to their dismay, of course!) Out West, we could give two hoo hahs about the whole North South thing, couldn't care less about that Manson-Nixon line, and frankly, are more interested in who is buying the next round of margaritas! :lol:

As for corn, I have always been a suburban boy, never living in the country, and even my mallrat butt knows what unshucked corn looks like! Geez! That woman definitely needed not only lessons in food, but a a serious broomstickectomy!

Arizona was a territory of the US duing the War of Northern Aggression therefore you're a not only a yankee but a damnyankee.:)
It was far from a border skirmish but we shan't go there and it's the Mason-Dixon line which the is line dividing MD and PA.

My father used to scare my oldest daughter by equating yankees with the booger man. She was a good sized youngin before she met her first yankee. Later she said "Daddy those yankees are just like us ain't they?"

And update I've been informed that I'm not welcome at that particular farmers market again, it seems the Right Reverand thought I was rude to that DA yankee woman. I've already secured a stall at another FM and I'll have several gallons of blackberries, dew-berries, and blueberries.

[Kogarashi]

Where in upstate Lehk? I live in the good ol Capital District in a small town called Brunswick and we have corn out the wazoo. In fact, I live right across the street (if u can call the barely paved tractor trail a street) from about 80 acres of corn. MMMM fresh illegally picked corn MMMM lol. Not all of us New Yorkers live in the concrete jungle that is NYC. You go a few hours north of where I live and some people don't have running water, let alone cable tv lol. Its a diverse as hell state we live in in New York.

Hey, Capital District! I grew up over in Cobleskill (out on I-88), and my parents currently have a good four acres planted with corn (small property compared to my Great-Grandpa, who owns a third of the county pretty much). I remember driving 15 minutes down the road to a very large farm and paying per bushel for hand-picked corn.

Mmm...now I'm getting hungry.

And update I've been informed that I'm not welcome at that particular farmers market again, it seems the Right Reverand thought I was rude to that DA yankee woman. I've already secured a stall at another FM and I'll have several gallons of blackberries, dew-berries, and blueberries.

Sorry to hear about that. Glad there's another market you can go to though. Wish I could be there to buy some of your produce. :)

[Dreamstalker]

The funniest thing I've ever heard was what the wife of a man my mom worked with said. Not long after she moved here she saw her first roadrunner....and said "That's the scrawniest chicken I've ever seen"!
:lol:
My dad was waiting around for my mom and I near the ABQ train station a few years ago (when I first went out there for college), and was sitting at the outside tables at a movie theater (think it was the Century Rio). A huge roadrunner comes walking up and just stands there staring at him (not even a foot away). He thinks it got used to people feeding it popcorn or the like.

[XCashier]

And update I've been informed that I'm not welcome at that particular farmers market again, it seems the Right Reverand thought I was rude to that DA yankee woman.
Well, that bites. The woman was terminally stupid, copped an attitude with you and your daughter, threw a fit and tattled to the Reverand, and YOU'RE the one who's rude?! :confused: Methinks the Right Reverand has his collar on a little too tight.

Glad you found a new place, though. Hopefully the stupid woman won't come to your stall, then pitch a fit when you tell her the snap peas aren't kumquats. ;)

[Dreamstalker]

If she even knows what either of those things are :p

[Kogarashi]

"But those aren't peas! Peas are tiny and round, and those are long! You're obviously trying to sell me cucumbers!" :D

[Pagan]

Threadjack and off-topic!

Arizona was a territory of the US duing the War of Northern Aggression therefore you're a not only a yankee but a damnyankee.:)
It was far from a border skirmish but we shan't go there and it's the Mason-Dixon line which the is line dividing MD and PA.

Yes, but only because of the Mexican-American War. The territory was ceded with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848 with the Mexican Cession. Now, where I'm from was still part of Mexico until the Gadsden Purchase in 1853. While there were quite a few battles fought here (notably Valverde and Glorieta Pass), most of the inhabitants of the territory hadn't really accepted the fact that they were now part of the US. Heck, we're still having fights over Spanish land grants here! :soapbox: Ok, I'm done now. Sorry 'bout that, but if I could have fit in a few more classes, I would have had a history degree to go along with the other two. :angel:

Dreamstalker - I live near Corrales and I've gone out several times to see a roadrunner making himself comfortable on the hood of my car!

PhotoChick - As long as they don't complain about how this isn't how they do *whatever* where they come from, we're fine. I just hope that they're house is in a development that has paved streets. With the downpours a couple of weeks ago, we've got the "Rio Rancho Canyon" out there! But tell them, welcome to the state!

Threadjack over! Go on about your business. Move along, nothing to see here!

[Jester]

Arizona was a territory of the US duing the War of Northern Aggression therefore you're a not only a yankee but a damnyankee.:)

First of all, thanks to the person who pointed out the other historical information about the Southwest at that time period. Also, the US had many territories at the time of the Civil War where the populace didn't give a hoot one way or another about the conflict, and whose modern day inhabitants still don't. (See also "Arizona.")

It was far from a border skirmish but we shan't go there and it's the Mason-Dixon line which the is line dividing MD and PA.

This was a joke, of course. I KNOW it is the Mason-Dixon line, but the Manson-Nixon line (a) sounds funnier and (b) conjures up a whole bunch of amusing images for those of us who know our history. And (c) it's a line I stole from a fellow entertainer friend of mine, who often uses it in his act.

Also used in his act, here in Florida (and this is appropriate here): "As they say in the South, that's downright neighborly. You know where the South is? Right...north of here!"

So again, not all of the US that is not part of the South is Yankee-ville. So Thhhpppbbbttt....or somethign equally juvenile and silly. :D

[Cygnata]

Jester: ... You're friends with Robin Williams?

[ebonyknight]

That's the thing I will never get about deep southerners (I'm a Virginnyian), myself. How they can still be so sore over losing a war over a hundred years ago..

You never hear northerners call southerners "secess" or "johnny reb" anymore. Git over it.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Geez, I have to live down here with the "hell, no, I ain't fergittin' " crowd. What a bunch of putzes. "you ain't fergittin'", eh? Fergittin' what? Were you ALIVE back then?

Ptah.

They just now got around to taking the rebel flag off the state house a couple years ago. Can you imagine? WHAT century are we in again????:(

[air914]

Eh - couldn't read the whole thing but thought I'd add my little bit. I'm from Kentucky and I consider myself "in the middle" not really north - not really south...... so I'm both :) Anyway...... now I could understand maybe if she got cucumbers confused w/ zucchini squash - I've done that myself a few times (I rarely get either so sometimes I see them both and it takes me a sec - not b/c I'm an idiot, but b/c I don't use it much). Anyway, she COULD have just said "that doesn't look like corn" and you could have proceeded to show her the corn "inside".

That being said - has she NEVER seen a picture of corn? Guess she never saw "Joseph & the Technicolor Dreamcoat" or any version of Joseph's story in the Bible (remember the heads of corn dream?) Must not be a church-goer. I just can't imagine never seeing a corn field no matter where you live....... I've driven across the US From California to KY and we saw LOTS of cows and cornfields.... it's just amazing. Was it on here that someone wrote about heads of lettuce? Some kid said in a grocery store: "mom what's that?" And she said "that's a head of lettuce - that's how they used to sell lettuce before they put it in bags and they still keep it around in case some old people want to buy it that way"........ ???? No wonder if the kid grows up thinking lettuce is SUPPOSED to come in a bag....... or that corn comes wrapped in plastic.......... I blame the parents :)

[protege]

Geez, I have to live down here with the "hell, no, I ain't fergittin' " crowd. What a bunch of putzes. "you ain't fergittin'", eh? Fergittin' what? Were you ALIVE back then?

Exactly. The war was 140 years ago. You lost. Get over it. However, such logic is lost on those people...many of whom (at least locally) proudly fly the rebel flag on their rusted-out 1977 Chevy pickups ;)

[mrtauntaun]

You bet i do! There's not much finer on a summer day that grilling corn while still in the husk. Juicey and delicious!

[BigPete]

Nantucket corn is one of the best types of sweet corn I know.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

You bet i do! There's not much finer on a summer day that grilling corn while still in the husk. Juicey and delicious!

Um...yeah. I used to do this, too.

http://www.rosettadesign.com/building_vardo/raefriedfood.html

:lol: :lol:

[Becks]

Anyway...... now I could understand maybe if she got cucumbers confused w/ zucchini squash - I've done that myself a few times (I rarely get either so sometimes I see them both and it takes me a sec - not b/c I'm an idiot, but b/c I don't use it much).


That's happened to me once or twice, gathering supplies for the salad bar. :sheepish: The way the zucchini is placed on the sales floor, it can look VERY similar to cucumbers. (Not to mention the fact that the zucchini and cucumbers are usually placed quite close to each other...)

[Lace Neil Singer]

What's a zucchini? I've never heard of it... I wouldn't know one if it jumped up and bit me. :lol: I do know corn however. :)

[Kelly Lynne]

The definition of a yankee: If you weren't born within VA, NC, SC, GA, FL, AL, MS, LA, TX, AR, or TN then you are a yankee. We have been know to make exceptions for somefolk that have a southern state-of-mind. A damnyankee is one of the above that moves here to stay.

Not Maryland?? (I'm a Yank either way, being from PA, but I thought Maryland counted as southern.)

[MystyGlyttyr]

Heh. It gets more fun when you cross borders. Me being from Arkansas and my friend Catherine being from Canada, we get into some interesting terms. Anyone who heard half the crap we called each other would definitely not assume we were friends, hee hee.

I will say, though, the thing that always scares my friends when I mention it to them is telling them about having to go out and run the bobcat out of the yard :lol: They always get this deer-in-headlights look about them.

[protege]

I tend to give my Canadian friends (you know who you are) a hard time about living in the "great parking lot to the North" or how the local sandwich shops has more subs than their military. Sometimes I'll bug my friends in Cleveland (aka the "Mistake by the Lake") about how Pittsburgh's rivers don't burn. It's all harmless fun, since we pick on each other.

MG and Triumph fans are also fair game in each others' circles. I've seen several shirts that read something like "I'd rather drive an MG than push a Triumph..." and vice-versa. It's actually pretty funny...as both cars were made by the same company, and even used many of the same parts after 1968...

[Rapscallion]

What's a zucchini? I've never heard of it... I wouldn't know one if it jumped up and bit me. :lol: I do know corn however. :)

Known over here as courgettes.

They're just as vile in either country.

Rapscallion

[friendofjimmyk]

The kids and I were up before daylight this morning pulling sweet corn and loading new taters, okra, yellow squash, maters, green beans, brocoli, fresh dill, cucs, and some other assorted vegis all from our garden. We arrive 30 minutes before opening and get setup. We really don't raise the extra vegis to sell, what we don't use and family can't use we try to sell and donate the rest to the food bank, and what money we make is split up between the children.
Anyways back on subject, an hour before close (noon) this yankee woman asks my youngest daughter Z (8) for some corn. Z takes the woman by the hand and leads her over to the corn and tells her to take her pick but the butter and cream corn is the best tasting.

YW: I want corn not cucumbers.
Z: That is corn cucumbers are over there (pointing to the other end).
YW: Little girl I want corn and that's not corn, where's your father?
Z: Daddy this lady wants to talk to you.
Me: What can I do for you.
YW: I wanted some corn but your daughter keeps trying to sell me cucumbers.
Me: That's corn right in front of you. That's Silver Queen, Yellow Gold, and that's butter and cream.
YW: I want corn and that's not corn you stupid rednecks are trying to steal from people and I'm going to report you to Reverand Anderson. (Walks away in a huff).
About 15 minutes later, the Right Rev:
RR: Mr. Tanasi, Mrs something-ski says you're trying to rip her off by selling cucumbers as corn.
Me: No I'm trying to sell her corn she's just too stupid to know corn when she sees it. (I really said that and loud enough for her to hear me say it.)
RR: What were you showing her? (I walk him over to the corn.)
Me: There, three kinds of sweet corn.
YW: See he's trying to sell cucumbers as corn.
RR: Mrs. something-ski that's corn.
YW: No it's not.
Me: Lady it's still in the shuck you have to shuck it before you get to the corn. (And I shuck an ear of corn.) See.
YW: (Sputtering) Well how am I susposed to know that?
Me: You might have asked before you started accusing me of crime. Now do you want corn or not?:headdesk:
YW: Well not with that attitude I'll take my business elsewhere.
Me: Then go and leave me alone.

Now having typed all that I have a question. You yankee and city folk do know that corn come in a wrapper besides plastic don't you?


I was born and raised in a city outside Cleveland, Ohio. Even in the middle of the city we had a garden and in that garden we grew our own corn and I am a yankee and a city folk - yes, I know corn needs to be shucked! :lol:

[ForestDragon]

I think I've always known that corn didn't automatically come in a can or a bag - but I was an early reader and I asked a lot of questions. My poor parents.:D
Some of the kids I've seen in the school where I work, I dunno - if it weren't for the cafeteria, I'm pretty sure most of them would think corn came in little flat triangles with "cheese" or "sour cream" on it and was never grown at all, let alone started out as kernels. :rolleyes:

[tonydanza]

I find the stupidest part to be that she thought it was a cucumber. Sure corn looks different when it's like that, but it sure as hell doesn't look like a cucumber!

[Erin]

Now having typed all that I have a question. You yankee and city folk do know that corn come in a wrapper besides plastic don't you?


I'm a Yankee, and a city person, but I'm also from Nebraska...Home of the CORNhuskers! There's a cornfield about 3 miles down the street from me (the cornfield belongs to BoysTown) so there's a good bit of us city folk here that know what an ear of corn looks like before it gets to the freezer and canned foods sections of the grocery store.

It always shocks me that people cant recognize various fruits and vegetables in their original straight-out-of-the-ground states...


edited to add: I might be a Yankee, but I do have Southern blood in me...my mom is from Mississippi...

[Mixed Bag]

[Zucchini is k]nown over here as courgettes.

They're just as vile in either country.

Is the BOARD LEADER :flame: one of my favourite vegs? Why thanks, that's a pretty tasty preparation--don't mind if I have some.

Courgettes is a cool name; if I hadn't been able to find them in the store when I was young because they were called that instead of boring Italian squash I wouldn't have minded as much.

Of course I know what corn looks like--I saw it on Gilligan's Island growing in that wreath shape.

People thinking corn grows in triangles...ohhh :eek:

Well, I didn't learn until college that cheddar cheese was naturally white, and that betrayal fortified my fight to preserve quaintness.

BTW, while perspective is the biggest factor in determining yankeehood, Maryland can be called a southern state as it's below the Jackie Mason-Jeane Dixon Line (if only we had that!)

[LostMyMind]

Zucchini should be forgotten. It's one of the nastiest tasting food, if you can even call it food. Add eggplant and broccoli to that list of editable stuff that shouldn't be eaten.

But to your question Mixed Bag. Now days Yankeehood is basically a new word for "city folks". Unless of course, you smack in the middle of Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, North and South Carolina, and the "swamp" of Florida. Then it means anyone who was born in a state that fought for the Union in the Civil War.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I like courgettes! Now spinach, that is the devil's food. O_o

[Erin]

I like courgettes! Now spinach, that is the devil's food. O_o

I like raw spinach in salads...with caesar dressing, parmesean and black olives all over it. Yum!! Now I'm hungry for some baby spinach.

I just recently discovered asparagus...my parents are wondering who I am because since I started to eat asparagus I've actually been making it at home and ordering it when it's on the menu at a restaurant. Before asparagus, the few vegetables that would pass my lips were probably only corn and potatoes.

Now I'm also starting to like green beans (covered with garlic butter)

My boyfriend said that I must be finally acquiring my adult taste buds.

[LostMyMind]

:lol: I'm the opposite. When I was a child, I ate all kinds of veggies. Now I can't stand the taste of most veggies.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Up here in Yankeesville, we grow corn in plastic, on corn trees, and it's picked by immigrant latvians.

yep.

Anyone who confuses unshucked corn for cucumbers is a MOW-RON and really should be exchanging their brain for a box of rocks.

seriously, they'll get more mileage out of it.

Myself, I wouldn't inflict that kind of hatred upon a box of rocks.:angel:

All I can say about that woman in the OP is what an idiot. She's past moron - she's certified idiot.

And yep, I've seen corn in the shucks before - I've bought it that way from the local farmer's market many a time (silver queen is awesome IMO.):D

[Mixed Bag]

Zucchini...if you can even call it food. Add eggplant and broccoli to that list of editable stuff that shouldn't be eaten.

But to your question Mixed Bag...

Thanks for the info. And for pointing out that some people don't like good vegetables like those; it helps me understand, these must be the same people that like avocados and olives, etc. ;)

Especially, what's with sweet potatoes? Maybe the same people like peas with whipped cream and hot fudge lima beans?

The final word: Baked potatoes get tons of butter or margarine--not cream that's gone sour, and you don't chill them and pasta and smother them with mayo. No other vegetables get a yellow substance. Corn is awesome and only to be eaten from an unbuttered cob that hasn't been frozen and in no other case--except corn bread, and chips, which should be round instead of injurious. :D

[Tutorgal]

I like courgettes! Now spinach, that is the devil's food. O_o

No way! Spinach is good stuff. The devil's food has to be the overboiled, underseasoned cabbage that you Brits love to pass off as veg. A year of eating that stuff while at Oxford and I will never, ever, eat cabbage again for as long as I live.

[XCashier]

Especially, what's with sweet potatoes? Maybe the same people like peas with whipped cream and hot fudge lima beans?
You've just got to prepare them correctly. I agree that canned sweet potatoes in heavy syrup are way too cloying. Fresh sweet potatoes, baked like regular potatoes, are quite good, though. Or cooked in a casserole with apples and just a little brown sugar... mmm! :)

[kerrisan]

Corn in husk = http://www.rwhirled.com/radarange/pics/Corn-01.jpg

Cucumber = http://elissa.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/cucumber.jpg

Sucky custumer = http://data1.blog.de/blog/c/calgary/img/susan1.JPG

[Thrifty]

[QUOTE=Enjis;764]Oh for gosh sakes! I grew up in Detroit, and I have known what fresh corn was all my life!

Another Detroiter and know what fresh corn is. I have had it though, yummy.

[Mixed Bag]

XCash, your devotion to yams is so touching...how can we mock food oblivious to the people behind it? (Wish I knew the words or smileys to make this sound as sincere as I mean it, so I'll leave it at that...)

[Pagan]

Especially, what's with sweet potatoes? Maybe the same people like peas with whipped cream and hot fudge lima beans?

You should try sweet potato fries! Those are so-o-o-o good. Especially with regular fries, a green chile cheeseburger, and a Guiness at O'Neills! :D

[Qwakkeddup]

And update I've been informed that I'm not welcome at that particular farmers market again, it seems the Right Reverand thought I was rude to that DA yankee woman. I've already secured a stall at another FM and I'll have several gallons of blackberries, dew-berries, and blueberries.

Oh no, DA yankee woman is contagious me thinks!:eek:

[Lace Neil Singer]

No way! Spinach is good stuff. The devil's food has to be the overboiled, underseasoned cabbage that you Brits love to pass off as veg. A year of eating that stuff while at Oxford and I will never, ever, eat cabbage again for as long as I live.
:rolleyes: Don't ever compare school cabbage to the real stuff. A good Savoy cooked to perfection is heavenly, especially served with lasagne.

[Barefootgirl]

Savoy cabbage cooked with cream, onion and bacon is lovely, I have to admit. Mainly because it tastes of cream, onion and bacon instead of cabbage....

[Tanasi]

Oh no, DA yankee woman is contagious me thinks!:eek:

I like my new diggs unfortunately the garden is coming to an end soon unless we get lots of water.:cry:
I still have some corn but it's field corn now, the cucs, zucchinni, yellow squash, apples, peaches the remaining fresh herbs are coming on. Beans are gone as is the sweet corn. Okra is just about gone, the watermelons are small but real sweet, lopes are in the same boat. I don't like honeydews so I don't plant them. I'm going to plant some turnip greens tonight. I've also got lots of heirloom maters as well as the more popular kinds. I don't like raw tomatoes so for myself I raise Romas and make sauce for canning. I'll also can beefsteaks and some others.
The customers so far have been real nice. They're mostly city and yuppie type folks. The yankees so far have been OK and not to many know-it-alls. The only thing I don't like about the new place is that I can't sell directly off my truck I have to unload and then pay-to-park it. Saturday when I was loading up to leave a few college aged kids helped out because I was donating the remainder to the food bank and they really appreciated it :passing out emo: I told them to take what they wanted but they refused any payment. There might be hope yet.
I've also found out that having copies of country receipes avaiable with the vegis I have for sale helps sales.
With new state laws unless you prepare food in a commercial kitchen you can't offer it for sale to the public. There won't be any good-ol fried pies this year or peach cobbler, nor any home canned goods. Damn the governor damn his straight to heck!!!!:devil:

[Format C]

Even though I consider myself a suburban guy, I know what unhusked corn looks like. I used to go to the Farmer's Market with my parents when I was a kid.