Post: #26

This is the thread of the year.

Post: #27

(09-29-2015 08:18 AM)trian1 Wrote:  Let's not be too hard on OP:

Someone, somewhere is going to Google this very question, discover this forum and turn his life around (and hopefully also discover the proper way to check corn for freshness while retaining its moisture)

:-)

The article "Why Washington D.C sucks for guys" did it for me.

Post: #28

One time I was next to the trash can next to the corn and a Chinese man was gathering the silk from the husks and putting it into a plastic produce bag. I asked him what it was for. He told me that he boils the silk in water to make a Chinese folk medicine that'sgood for the kidneys.

Also, you may have noticed in the Mexican food section that dried corn husks are sold to wrap tamales in. (You don't eat the husk,but wrap the corn tamale to cook it in.)

Seems like one man's trash is another man's treasure.

Post: #29

(09-29-2015 02:23 PM)mammal Wrote:  Seems like one man's trash is another man's treasure.

Post: #30

Thanks to RIslander for drawing my attention to this thread.

I'm sure by now everyone's seen this, but it just seems appropriate to share here:

Post: #31

^What, she couldn't have found a more powerful drill?

It only scalped a half a dozen square inches.

Downvoted.

Post: #32

I don't peel the husks at the market, I save them for my pet zebra.

Post: #33

99.9% of corn is genetically modified Monsanto shit - you shouldn't buy and eat it anyway.

Post: #34

100% of corn is genetically modified. In fact, all the staples today are 100% genetically modified. It just took a really long time and patience for farmers to produce what we recognize now as food. Fun fact, a sweet potato is a regular potato genetically modified with bacterial genes.

You shouldn't be worried about monsanto 'genetically modifying' food, you should be worried about the pesticide coatings on the seeds they sell. When the seed sprout and mature, they absorb the pesticide, so when pests eat it, they can't reproduce, or go crazy, or die, depends. That stuff doesn't wash off.

Post: #35

It's the asterisks in the title that really make this thread unique.

Post: #36

(01-04-2017 10:00 PM)LeoneVolpe Wrote:  Thanks to RIslander for drawing my attention to this thread.

I'm sure by now everyone's seen this, but it just seems appropriate to share here:

I don't think you can rip that much hair out without it bleeding like crazy.

Post: #37

(01-05-2017 03:45 AM)spokepoker Wrote:  100% of corn is genetically modified. In fact, all the staples today are 100% genetically modified. It just took a really long time and patience for farmers to produce what we recognize now as food. Fun fact, a sweet potato is a regular potato genetically modified with bacterial genes.

You shouldn't be worried about monsanto 'genetically modifying' food, you should be worried about the pesticide coatings on the seeds they sell. When the seed sprout and mature, they absorb the pesticide, so when pests eat it, they can't reproduce, or go crazy, or die, depends. That stuff doesn't wash off.

1.Saying cultivation and selection over time and genetic modification are the same is like saying that landing a plane and plane crashing is the same - only velocity is different - but as it happens health of those involved changes greatly by this velocity.

2.Selection over time does not involve inserting foreign genome or changing the species qualitatively in only changes certain quantitative attributes.

3.Pesticides are sure bad but it's pointless to worry and do nothing - what is your solution to avoiding/ neutralizing pesticides? Nobody will just sit and worry about pesticides. Either you take some action or you accept them.

Post: #38

(01-04-2017 10:00 PM)LeoneVolpe Wrote:  Thanks to RIslander for drawing my attention to this thread.

I'm sure by now everyone's seen this, but it just seems appropriate to share here:

I have video footage of Suits showing how it supposed be done.