About Sweet Corn / Green Corn
Sweet corn (also called green corn) is harvested when the kernels are soft and sweet, making it ideal for eating. If you grab an ear of field corn and try to take a bite, you’ll probably break your teeth. It’s hard and dry (and only tastes good to cows, chickens, pigs, turkeys and some wild animals). INFORMATION BELOW FROM 1800s COOKBOOKS The seeds of the maize plant, or Indian corn, especially the variety known as sweet corn, are eaten as…