[Sca-cooks] Corn

[Huette von Ahrens]

--- "Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius"
<adamantius.magister at verizon.net> wrote:

> I'm tempted to say that I have a sensitive
> palate, but few or no
> pretensions. But that's not really what I mean,
> either. It might be
> better for me to say that the vehemence with
> which you speak suggests
> the possibility of emotional bias that may have
> more to do with some
> personal experience than with quality.

Perhaps.  I have never explored that.  I think it
may be more of a case that I have put you on a
pedestal, when you probably should be just
standing on the ground like the rest of us.
I think of you as an epicure.  But obviously you
have both low and high tastes.

But
> ultimately, the only thing
> I can say for sure is that my personal
> preference is for canned corn
> over frozen, because while I'm aware of a
> change for the worse in the
> flavor of canned versus fresh, I am far more
> bothered by the change
> in the texture of frozen over fresh, which
> seems invariably to be
> either dry and leathery, or watery and pulpy on
> the inside, and
> leathery on the outside of the kernel. I've had
> canned corn that was
> better than some other brands of canned corn,
> but I've never managed
> to find a single brand of frozen corn that I
> liked.

When I heat up frozen corn, I rarely follow the
cooking directions on the bag.  I just heat it up
to my satisfaction and have never had either dry
and leathery or watery and pulpy.

>
> I just need to remember, if I ever cook a meal
> for you, not to serve
> canned corn... that shouldn't be too hard.

Or any other canned veggie, other than beets.

I guess this goes to show me that I shouldn't be
putting people on pedestals.  Even demi-gods like
Adamantius ... :-)

Huette

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shall never cease to be amused.

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