SC - corn-animal or people food - OOP

[Christina Nevin]

	At 05:01 PM 5/1/00 -0500, you wrote:
	>As a child growing up in Germany, I was told that many Germans
believe
	>corn appropriate for animal consumption but not for human.  At best
it
	>was believed to be a low status item.
	>Has anyone found any evidence to this in various European
countries, or
	>was I mislead?
	ska: Lord Caleb Reynolds wrote
	Corn on the cob is considered pig food in Germany. They do serve
corn, 
	mostly mixed in with other dishes.

My parents have often told me that when I was a baby (I lived in London
until age 3) our French au-pair refused to eat corn as she considered it to
be pig food (this was 28 years ago). 
A matter of great astonishment to us, as hot buttered corn-on-the-cob with
pepper is a favorite BBQ treat in NZ.
Ciao
Lucretzia



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