I’m working hard to bring corn to the forefront of dinner plates and menus. For many years, corn has taken a backseat to steak, hamburgers, pork chops, and chicken, coming in a distant 10th place to mashed potatoes, french fries, baked potatoes, or even rice. Broccoli, string beans, and the ‘new’ upstart, edamane, outstrip corn by miles in vegetable popularity contests.
Somehow, corn has become the black sheep of vegetables, reluctantly dropped on to dinner plates in homes across the world when there are no alternatives. Children and adults alike push the kernnels around their plates with forks, hoping to make them disappear.
In my effort to champion corn–as a stand-alone meal OR as a side, I encourage you, nay, I insist that you buy the delicious new corn medley (Baby Gold and White) from Birdseye pictured below and try it. Help me to bring corn back to the head of the class.
Friends, to be clear, I’m not talking EARS of corn here–we all know that corn on the cob has the #1 spot as best summertime vegetable locked up. In this post, I’m talking niblets. Let’s band together and fight the good fight. Your efforts can help to create a Corn Renaissance, if you will–where we can all revel in corn’s cellulose goodness.
To kick things off, I ate 1/2 of a bag of corn for dinner last night–no meat, no starch rice or potatoes, JUST CORN, and you can too. Now who’s with me?!? Good luck on your mission and God speed.
“…no starch, JUST CORN”
Corn is a starch.
I’m not trying to be a pain in the butt, it just comes naturally. 
oh pipe down, spidey. let’s not get technical here…it’s a VEGGIE!!!!!!!!!!!!! now go spin some webs or save some children from burning buildings and stop tormenting me.
Warning: more technical stuff.
Corn is in everything. It’s scary-scary! King Corn. And with so much being (subsidized and) grown to produce ethanol, other crops such as rice and wheat are being crowded out, hence the current shortages.
Plus, too much corn in your diet can really wear the teeth down (couldn’t readily find any anthropological photos on the web of eroded dentitions of Native Americans with maize-intensive diet).
If you need the reassurance of seeing it on your plate, maybe you can find some dishes that have a trompe l’oeil portion printed right on them?
Lecture over. Pop-tarts, anyone?
I adore corn, however, I am insulin resistant – so I should not eat it by itself.
I like barbecued corn… I love it dripping with butter, and as you chomp through it like bugs bunny on speed with butter dripping off your chin….
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*hmmmmmmmm*
I’m liking the allsorts too!
Gonna have to pass on the niblets, babe. It’s cob all the way.
Unlike many other vegs, corn looks cheerful and sunny….more power to your fork….well you can’t eat it with your knife!