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Anonymous Sat Jul 22 17:26:07 2017 No.9202392 [Reply] [Original]

Why did corn never take off in European food to the extent that tomatoes and potatoes did?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 22 17:27:02 2017 No.9202396 >>9202392 Its not filling

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 22 17:29:59 2017 No.9202402 >>9202392 Read The History of the Peloponnesian Wars.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 22 17:30:23 2017 No.9202404 It's gross

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 22 17:44:52 2017 No.9202457 >>9202392 The corn that Europeans found was much smaller and starchier and required processing to be nutritious. It's only more recently that we've been able to breed the corn we are familiar with

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 22 17:57:06 2017 No.9202502 File: 190 KB, 500x375, 2543393139_9efe1da681.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Some corn varieties look horrible and probably were unappealing until the all yellow type became common.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 22 17:59:59 2017 No.9202510 >>9202392 Because it's a shit tier crop from a nutritional and agricultural point of view. Oh and it tastes bad.

Anonymous Sat Jul 22 18:37:17 2017 No.9202652
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It has more to do with corn being subsidized in the US that has promoted its popularity.
To compete with sugarcane owning countries, we made it so farmers got to sell their corn for more money than some other crops by ensuring they would get a government check for putting that corn to sale. This encouraged the consumption/production of High fructose corn syrup over cane sugar.

Times have changed and economic sanctions lifted, but the corn subsidy stays.

In South America/Mexico, it's native and the demand is consistent.

Europe has no incentive to push it up, it's garbage nutritionally and growing it irresponsibly can destroy land.

Japan loves it some fucking corn though, so who knows. Likely imported Ameribooism.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 22 18:40:58 2017 No.9202661 Europe literally thought that tomatoes where poisonous for hundreds of years.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 22 18:53:24 2017 No.9202688 File: 402 KB, 1024x683, 184949832.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9202510 Come to Iowa, you cunt, I'll fuck you up. I'll beat you half to death with an ear of corn, see if you talk shit after that.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 22 18:53:54 2017 No.9202691 >>9202510 This. Corn requires huge amounts of space to grow any reasonable amount of it. The USA can afford to waste thousands of acres for a cup full of HFCS, but the rest of us need to actually feed people.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 22 19:05:07 2017 No.9202740 It was a staple food for the poor in italy in the 1800s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellagra

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 22 19:07:13 2017 No.9202747 >>9202392 It needs a longer growing season than you get in most of europe. Also, what is objectively superior.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 22 20:40:28 2017 No.9203055 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixtamalization

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 22 20:44:34 2017 No.9203069 >>9202392 They tried but the areas that relied on corn didn't do as well.

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