Comments on "Corn Smut" and Other Delights
My favorite breakfast in PVR (at the River Cafe) is the Squash Blossom (Flor de Calabaza) and Huitlacoche omlette. I've also had some good Huitlacoche and corn empenadas in Mexico City. Saddly no hallucinations or anything of the sort, but totally inoffensive.
I clearly remember the first time I encountered an ear of smutty corn in my father's garden when I was a wee lad. It was both amazing and horrifying and led to a lifelong fascination with biology, which is both amazing and horrifying still.
That picture is going to haunt my nightmares, I'm afraid.
Mmmmmmmm.....Corn smut. I remember this stuff from "Ripley's Believe It or Not" ca. 1982 with Jack Palance.
Eat that, and you'll probably turn into a tree, like that one guy in Indonesia.
Steve, at "Steve Don't Eat It!", ate some. His comments are priceless:
@6: That was great, thanks for posting the link!
@7 - Aislinn, be sure to read the Natto entry. It's a classic.
i grew up picking and selling sweet corn from my family's farm. i used to have nightmares about that stuff. i am horrified that anyone eats that shit, and thank you for passing on the mexican name so that i can avoid it.
they give it to the cows. cows are impervious to smut, don'tchaknow?
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I'm not the squeamish type normally, but attaching the word "tumor" to something makes it ... somewhat unappetizing to me. For some reason, I have very little desire to eat tumors.
Come on David, quit being so childish.
Quit deleting my posts.
It isn't my fault that this looks like a famous Strangers staffers yeast infection.
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