Anyway, you can take the girl away from the farm, but....well, you know the rest:
FF
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Roastin' Ears
And don't you dare call them Corn on the Cob. Any self-respecting person who has roots in the corn belt knows that these here are called "roastin' ears". I always think of a farm wife, not unlike my grandmas or the mister's grandma, loading a big roaster with ears of corn for the hired men, hungry from a morning's work from the field and ready to eat dinner, not lunch. Farmers don't eat lunch at noon or dinner in the evening. No, no, no. The noon meal is always dinner and the evening meal is supper.
Anyway, you can take the girl away from the farm, but....well, you know the rest:
Anyway, you can take the girl away from the farm, but....well, you know the rest:
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I did not know that. I've been calling it Corn on the Cob since I could talk. Love it, too.
From now on, they're Roastin' Ears. Lee will think I've lost it, or am channeling Ma Ingalls.
My Kansas grandma always called the noon meal "dinner" - and she also fed the starving farm hands too. Thanks for the bit of nostalgia!
Really?! It's not corn on the cob?
I've now lived in Iowa for nearly 15 years and it just goes to prove... you can take the girl out of the city, but ya' can't take the city out of the girl.
Thanks for visiting me!
-Darcy
I'm originally from northern Indiana. For years, I've called it "Corn on the Cob", but I remember my family calling them "Roastin' Ears". When I lived in New England, it was called "Corn on the Cob". In Mass., we called the bi-color "Butter-Sugar Corn". Five miles away, in New Hampshire, it was called "Honey-Butter Corn."
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