/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.17857946]

why is USA so obsessed with corn?

its not even a good grain

[Anonymous No.17857949]

Why are 3rd worlders so obsessed with America?

it's not even a bad country

[Anonymous No.17857955]

>>17857946
Corn can feed people pretty easily. It's a densely producing crop.

[Anonymous No.17857966]

Who says that corn is an American only thing? I'm german and I love me some corn from time to time aswell.

[Anonymous No.17857967]

>>17857946
because of big corn and gov subsidies

[Anonymous No.17857969]

>>17857946
I love Iowa

[Anonymous No.17857971]

Americans only eat phallic food

[Anonymous No.17857977]

>>17857971
The rest of the world only eats phalli

[Anonymous No.17857981]

>>17857946
>>17857966
Clearly this crop doesn't grow all around the world. It isn't a staple in China. It isn't popular in Europe. It isn't a famous regional crop in Australia/NZ.

Nope. No sir. Only America.

[Anonymous No.17857989]

America is actually possessed by mesoamerican corn demons.

[Anonymous No.17858013]

>>17857989
>America is actually possessed by mesoamerican corn demons.
¿que?

[Anonymous No.17858026]

>>17857981
There are some areas here in Germany where corn is grown but not on the scale America can grow it

[Anonymous No.17858048]

Once you start cramming corn, your entire view of reality changes.

[Anonymous No.17858059]

>>17858026
It grows everywhere. Sorry, I forgot about German humour being straightforward. The US just happens to be one of those plus-sized jumbo countries where individual regions are the size of normal countries.

[Anonymous No.17858068]

>>17858059
Are your corn cobs also jumbo sized? If so than goddamn I want some of those!

[Anonymous No.17858074]

>>17858068
You can find some actually
In cali i can find huge cobs from vendors
Corn cheese mayo butter chilli flakes

10/10, snack on the go with lemonade

[Anonymous No.17858083]

>>17858074
sounds awsome, except for the california part

[Anonymous No.17858094]

>>1785794
what's your favorite grain?

[Anonymous No.17858098]

>>17858059
America consumes more corn compared to size and population than other countries and I don't know what you get out of acting in denial about that

[Anonymous No.17858099]

>>17857946
what a stupid fucking junk toy

[Anonymous No.17858103]

>>17858098
Not acting in denial, just pointing out that BIG countries have BIG stats.
God, I don't know where "Total" is but I wish I lived there.

[Anonymous No.17858113]

>>17857981
And literally all of South America

[Anonymous No.17858183]

most of it goes into gasoline as ethanol, the hegemony must be maintained

[Anonymous No.17858188]

>>17858098
>America consumes more corn compared to size and population than other countries
No shit, it's endemic to the american continent.

[Anonymous No.17858280]

>>17857981
China produces the second most corn in the world. In fact, it has been the fastest growing corn producer for a while and is catching up to the US

[Anonymous No.17858283]

>>17857946
>The main reason is that corn is such a productive and versatile crop, responding to investments in research, breeding and promotion. It has incredibly high yields compared with most other U.S. crops, and it grows nearly anywhere in the country, especially thriving in the Midwest and Great Plains. Plus, it can be turned into a staggering array of products. Corn can be used for food as corn flour, cornmeal, hominy, grits or sweet corn. It can be used as animal feed to help fatten our hogs, chickens and cattle. And it can be turned into ethanol, high-fructose corn syrup or even bio-based plastics.

from https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/time-to-rethink-corn/

I guess every country has their crop. In Finland it's oats. It feels like everything is made of oats.

[Anonymous No.17858293]

>>17858283
For our population size, it's outsized amount of oats.

[Anonymous No.17858300]

>>17857949
>implying it's not a bad country

[Anonymous No.17858313]

>>17857949
>america is not a bad
>america is not 3rd world
excellent cope sir

[Anonymous No.17858322]

it is a pretty good grain tho
how many other grains could you actually describe as tasting sweet?

[Anonymous No.17858336]

>>17857946
It tastes good and is cheap.
What else do you need?

[Anonymous No.17858359]

>>17857946
large parts of the country have land that is not fit to grow anything besides very low value row crops like corn and soybeans. because our electoral system heavily tilts towards low population areas, we throw more and more money at finding uses for the crap they can grow there. that's why they make us put ethanol in our fuel tanks.

[Anonymous No.17858427]

>>17857949
I live here and please get me out of this godforsaken hellhole

[Anonymous No.17858709]

>>17858427
Go back to Africa, then.

[Anonymous No.17858823]

>>17857949
>Go to school
>Get shot
>Go to supermarket
>Get shot
>Go to mall
>Get shot
>Go to concert
>Get shot
>Go to the movies
>Get shot
>Go to nightclub
>Get shot
>Call the cops
>Get shot

[Anonymous No.17858895]

>>17857946
Do Americans have maize? I come from a country where maize is a staple food and find corn even as a concept quite ridiculous.

[Anonymous No.17858908]

>>17858283
Here's a real reason. As a last ditch effort before devolving back to apes, us switched from leaded gasoline to E10 from corn

[Anonymous No.17858913]

>>17857946
we have an infinite supply of corn

[Anonymous No.17858921]

>>17858280
That's the point he's making, bro.

[Anonymous No.17858935]

>>17857946
>if you see him you become him

[Anonymous No.17858945]

>>17858359
>land that is not fit to grow anything besides very low value row crops
You have that backwards. That area has such high crop production that it was decided to control production and pricing on a government level to prevent market collapse. Corn and soybeans are just the crops that were decided to have the most secondary benefits.

[Anonymous No.17858956]

>>17857946
> The spell is complete
> It is permanent
Am I gonna be okay, bros..?

[Anonymous No.17858961]

>>17858921
No it's not.

[Anonymous No.17859060]

>>17858895
Corn is the US (and several other countries) word for the plant that is commonly called maize in other countries.

[Anonymous No.17859066]

>>17858300
>Imply
>strongly suggest the truth or existence of (something not expressly stated)
>something not expressly stated

[Anonymous No.17859108]

>>17858895
Based retard

[Anonymous No.17859121]

>>17857946
lmao

[Anonymous No.17859243]

thread made me look forward to summer grilled corn on the cob

[Anonymous No.17859277]

>>17859060
Wait, so what you guys eat is actually maize? Why the fuck do you call it 'corn'? Is all corn sweet or does HFCS only come from one type of corn (sweet corn)? And why is your maize yellow? I have so many questions.
>>17859108
Based all-knowing genius.

[Anonymous No.17859279]

>>17858359
Retard

[Anonymous No.17859305]

>>17859060
in germany it's spelled Mais

[Anonymous No.17859325]

>>17857946
you shut your filthy whore mouth

[Anonymous No.17859329]

I have never eaten corn.

[Anonymous No.17859330]

>>17857946
Americans are people of corn

[Anonymous No.17859335]

>>17859277
Summer has arrived!

[Anonymous No.17859346]

>>17857981
It's a new world vegetable, it grows natively (after some selective breeding over the past thousands of years) in the US. Same reason China and co love that rice.

Not sure why potatoes specifically caught on in Europe though versus corn, as far as new world veg go, guess was easiest to transport in the early days.

[Anonymous No.17859528]

>>17859277
No hfcs in any corn

[Anonymous No.17859545]

for breakfast I had a bowl of corn flakes sweetened with corn syrup
for lunch I had a can of carbonated corn syrup with a bag of corn chips
for dinner I had corn on the cob with corn chips(nachos) and a glass of corn alcohol(whiskey)

[Anonymous No.17859854]

Fuck sweet corn

[Anonymous No.17859869]

Native Americans are the shit out of corn. It's the potato of the western hemisphere.

[Anonymous No.17860172]

>>17859869
the potato is the potato of the western hemisphere

[Anonymous No.17860182]

>>17859335
I'm pretty sure I am older than you, but you can keep your grain esotericism to yourself. I hope you feel superior for knowing more about corn than some simple, puzzled 3rd worlder.

[Anonymous No.17860218]

>>17858103
>EU27
the fuck is EU27 did we start colonizing jupiters moons or some blade runner shit

[Anonymous No.17860234]

>>17859277
sweet corn just refers to corn that people actually eat whole (the kind you buy at the store).

[Anonymous No.17860239]

>>17857946
Genstlemen, Behold

[Anonymous No.17860355]

>>17860239
MORE CORN

[Anonymous No.17860717]

>>17860218
>The European Union is a political and economic union of 27 member states that are(...)

[Anonymous No.17860724]

>>17860717
sounds gay

[Anonymous No.17860729]

>>17857946
why are euros so obsessed with americans

[Anonymous No.17860749]

>>17860724
Well, if a bunch of American asshats didn't have Gadaffi murdered, we'd also have an African Union instead of turning Europe into one.

[Anonymous No.17860841]

>>17857981
Why are you coping about eating corn?

[Anonymous No.17860889]

>>17859346
I read somewhere that part of it was to avoid taxation. With grains you had to harvest it all, and then you paid tax on the harvest. You could leave potatoes in the ground for way longer and declare a much smaller harvest when taxation time came around.

[Anonymous No.17860900]

>>17860749
you can just say jews we're all friends

[Anonymous No.17860917]

>>17859346
potatoes are unironically a superfood if it's your main staple. Had pretty much all the vitamins and minerals you need and a ton of simple and complex carbs to boot. It mogs the fuck out of wheat, barley, beans, corn and oats.

[Anonymous No.17860924]

>>17857946
refer to this handy list to see what we make from corn:
https://www2.education.uiowa.edu/html/eportfolio/tep/07es102folder/miniweb/usesofcorn.htm
>sugar (dextrose)
>carbs (dextrin)
>cornstarch
>vegetable oil
>corn syrup
>HFC
>industrial cornstarch (thickening agent)
>industrial corn syrup

[Anonymous No.17860931]

>>17857946
Bro Miyazaki needs to fucking get some therapy before his next game. I'm done with this shit

[Anonymous No.17860956]

>>17860900
No harsh offence meant.

[Anonymous No.17861095]

>>17859277
>>17860234
The wiki page is actually pretty gud:
>Sweet corn, also called sugar corn and pole corn, is a variety of maize grown for human consumption with a high sugar content. Sweet corn is the result of a naturally occurring recessive mutation in the genes which control conversion of sugar to starch inside the endosperm of the corn kernel. Unlike field corn varieties grown for animal fodder, which are harvested when the kernels are dry and mature (dent stage), sweet corn is picked when immature (milk stage) and prepared and eaten as a vegetable, rather than a grain. Since the process of maturation involves converting sugar to starch, sweet corn stores poorly and must be eaten fresh, canned, or frozen, before the kernels become tough and starchy.

>>17859277
>Why the fuck do you call it 'corn'?
Corn is Old English. The etymology goes older and wider, but essentially the sense of the Old English word was "grain with the seed still in" (as in barleycorn) rather than a particular plant. Maize was referred to as Indian corn and at some point they dropped the Indian adjective.
>Is all corn sweet or does HFCS only come from one type of corn (sweet corn)?
HFCS is made from corn starch so the higher the starch yield from milling the better. The process is mainly breaking down the complex carbs into simple sugars with enzymes. I don't believe sweet corn is the ideal.
>And why is your maize yellow?
There was much selective breeding and cross breeding over the centuries.
In 1893, "Reid's Yellow Dent" won first prize at the Chicago World's Fair. The variety was subsequently used as the generic base for many other yellow dent varieties.

[Anonymous No.17861618]

>>17859279
How is he wrong?

[Anonymous No.17861624]

>>17860956
none taken, my uncircumcised friend

[Anonymous No.17861665]

>>17860841
It’s just so OP can make a thread crying about Americans. It’s compulsive; even if there are already 5 cope-and-seethe-about-America threads in the catalogue, he just has to do it.2whr4

[Anonymous No.17861673]

>>17858103
A bushel of corn is 56 pounds and the USA has 330 million people, so this means Americans consume a little over 2000 pounds per year of corn on average. Of course, most of that is animal feed and ethanol, but that's still a lot of corn.

[Anonymous No.17861679]

>>17857946
Americans are 2% corn by volume

[Anonymous No.17861687]

[Anonymous No.17861711]

>>17857946
not obsessed but when they decided to move west from the colonies they planted dickloads of corn because free food forever

[Anonymous No.17861717]

>>17861673
Actually, only a tiny fraction is consumed by humans, and feed isn't very much either. 40% is biofuel, 36% ethanol (with a small percent leftover for drinking alcohol), feed is after that, then people.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/time-to-rethink-corn/

[Anonymous No.17861729]

>>17857946
gov subsidizes the fuck out of it which made a lot of big companies get into corn who then lobby the government to subsidize corn even more
monsanto is literal actual evil and nobody cares

[Anonymous No.17861826]

>>17857989
I’d believe it

[Anonymous No.17861849]

>>17860917
Very true. The "Poor Irish" diet of literally nothing but cow's milk and potatoes contains every single nutrient the human body needs to survive. You've got to eat like 3500 calories total of them to get to your rda of some of those nutrients, but that's better than corn, wheat, etc, which are just outright missing some essential nutrients.

[Anonymous No.17862063]

>>17858895
>ESLniggers

[Anonymous No.17862164]

>>17857946
>U.S. corn growers produced 15.1 billion bushels, up 7% from 2020 and the second highest on record. Corn yield in the United States is estimated at a record high 177.0 bushels per acre, 5.6 bushels above the 2020 yield of 171.4 bushels per acre. Area harvested for grain, at 85.4 million acres, is up 4% from 2020.

that is fucking insane

[Anonymous No.17862176]

chixdiggit

[Anonymous No.17862567]

>>17861849
they lived active farming lifestyles and had almost no heat/ usually insufficient clothing 3500 would probably be maintance calories/ slight deficit.

[Anonymous No.17862951]

>>17861095
Yeah, I figured wikipedia would have some info on this. Thank you very much.
>>17862063
I am trying my best anon.

[Anonymous No.17862958]

>>17862164
It's an industrial crop and most corn grown gets turned into ethanol fuel with the mash recycled as fertilizer or feed. Compare Brazil's sugarcane crop.

[Anonymous No.17862967]

>>17857981
Ever wondered what continent its native to

[Anonymous No.17862969]

>>17859346
>Not sure why potatoes specifically caught on in Europe though versus corn
If you don’t nixtamalize corn you can’t live off of it. They tried using it as peasant food and it resulted in huge nutrient deficiency outbreaks.

[Anonymous No.17862973]

>>17862967
That post was heavily sarcastic. Corn is pretty popular in NZ, and South Island corn is probably the best in the world. Crops don't just grow where they originate.

[Anonymous No.17862975]

>>17857946
because it's easy as fuck to grow and it's great for food companies that want to hook people on food without adding any actual substance to it

[Anonymous No.17862977]

>>17862973
Obviously but I just meant the blatant reason why it would be a popular crop in the Americas to this day

[Anonymous No.17863073]

>>17857946
I choose to identify as corn woman instead

[Anonymous No.17863088]

>>17863073
>IT'S KO'RN

[Anonymous No.17863151]

>>17863073
the right CAN meme

[Anonymous No.17863862]

>>17861849
The potato & milk diet has adequate amounts of almost every nutrient, but one - molybdenum. Add a small amount of oatmeal, which has plenty of molybdenum, and you are good to go.

[Anonymous No.17863934]

IT'S NOT DIFFERENT AT ALL, IS IT STEVE?

[Anonymous No.17863983]

>>17863862
I stand corrected. Thank you.

[Anonymous No.17863993]

don't tell me you eat the corn mold in the year 2022

[Anonymous No.17863998]

>>17861729
>nobody cares
Because we aren’t fucking schizos.

[Anonymous No.17864857]

>>17857946
It's heavily subsidized so it's dirt cheap to produce, as far as actually eating it it can be pretty good but I agree there are much better grains

[Anonymous No.17864893]

>>17860924
>sugar (dextrose)
poison
>carbs (dextrin)
poison
>cornstarch
wall filler
>vegetable oil
poison
>corn syrup
poison
>HFC
poison
>industrial cornstarch (thickening agent)
poison
>industrial corn syrup
poison

Why do we grow corn again?

[Anonymous No.17864933]

>>17862063
his post needs a couple commas but is otherwise fine. Not bad at all for esl standards

[Anonymous No.17864940]

>>17863993
Hey, don't post smut on a blue board.

[Anonymous No.17865336]

>>17857946
Most corn produced in the United States is not eaten by people: The largest amount of corn produced by U.S. farmers (46.4 percent) is used as feed for animals. Another 30.5 percent is converted to ethanol, and 12.9 is exported

[Anonymous No.17865359]

>>17861717
Ethanol is biofuel.

[Anonymous No.17866275]

>>17865359
he might mean corn oil vs alcohol

[Anonymous No.17866331]

>>17857946
you'll never be one of the children of the corn

[Anonymous No.17866372]

>>17864893
you sound like a fag lol

[Anonymous No.17866375]

>>17857946
or as the indians called it, maize. another famous indian was crazy horse

[Anonymous No.17866381]

>>17864893
>sugar (dextrose)
poison
>carbs (dextrin)
poison
>anon
retard
>Why do we grow corn again?
because is not poison, you fucking hippie motherfucker, go fuck yourself

[Anonymous No.17866845]

>>17863993
ancient Mayans unironically did and some modern chefs still use that to make dishes.

[Anonymous No.17866918]

>>17858098
>consume corn
More like turn it all into liquid sugar and add it to everything.

[Anonymous No.17866927]

>>17857946
Corn is based and redpilled

[Anonymous No.17866945]

>>17866927
Corn transcends borders and cultures

[Anonymous No.17867091]

>>17858103
im suprised that we use it more than mexico but i think thats because we dont tax corn syrup like sugar cane.

[Anonymous No.17867178]

>>17857946
everyone likes corn. whatsa matter?

[Anonymous No.17867185]

I don't like eating corn because it comes out undigested in my poop...

[Anonymous No.17867714]

>>17857946
Boy oh boy did you stumble on a rabbit hole! Corn or Maize is a literal sacred food venerated by every group of people who ever lived here. Corn ruled before we arrived among the natives and we later dedicated entire states to corn. I eat corn every day to some extent and it must be eaten every 4th of july. There are literally hours of history of corn or Maize videos you can find. Just know that even when Americans are gone and replaced the corn shall rule and it shall be cultivated and eaten. It shall fuel this land until the end of time.

[Anonymous No.17869512]

>>17857946
Who would have thought that the cattle would fall in love with feed

[Anonymous No.17869773]

>>17857946
>USA [...] obsessed
0 self awareness

[Anonymous No.17870817]

>>17866381
t. corn syrup addict

[Anonymous No.17871779]

[Anonymous No.17872015]

>all the butthurt eurocucks ITT too poor to afford a trip to the corn barn

[Anonymous No.17872034]

>>17861095
why is wikipedia so autistic about the page title?
>corn syrup
>corn starch
>corn meal
>pop corn
>nooooooooooo you have to call it "maize" you can't just say corn

[Anonymous No.17872065]

>>17872015
>ywn light the corn barn on fire
imagine the popcorn

[Anonymous No.17872092]

>>17872015
>keep your head above the corn
best advice I've ever gotten!

[Anonymous No.17872095]

>>17872034
pop corn and sweet corn are different, if it ain't pop corn it won't pop

[Anonymous No.17872129]

>>17858188
Americans probably consume more of every kind of food simply because they are fat and greedy.