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[–] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What about all of the other varieties of corn? Are they not relatives to each other?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Look, if you keep asking questions, we're never going to get these crappy corn husk crafts finished.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

They're called tamales!

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I just watched the Good Eats episode about corn so I can answer this: Yes, popcorn, hard corn, and sweet corn are all related to each other.

[–] bitwaba@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It's a candy grass.

[–] Floey@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago
[–] frezik@midwest.social -1 points 1 year ago

It's to be thrown back at the asshole who gave you candy corn.

[–] ignirtoq@fedia.io 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I knew of popcorn and sweet corn, but what is hard corn used for today? Animal feed?

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A lot is used for animal feed, but we eat it in corn flakes, corn tortillas, and cornbread, plus it's where they get corn syrup which is in damn near everything. It's also processed into ethanol for both fuel and bourbon.

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

and bourbon.

The most important use of all.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'm about to use it.

[–] bluewing@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

The cause and relief from all our problems.......

[–] bluewing@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

You forgot degradable packing peanuts. Turns out you can modify Cheetos(tm) enough they become viable for packing items for shipment.

[–] The_v@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

All corn varieties are all the same species.

Domesticated corn can also still cross freely with the wild teosinte.

[–] JoMomma@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

All the corn we eat is basically the same, this is referring to the original ancestor to all of them