sweet corn

noun, a kind of corn with kernels having a high sugar content (COD)

“I was always raised on- you just go out before lunch, picked the sweet corn, and that’s the way you had it, so if it was fresher than that it’s still growing.”

“I had sweet corn this past week … It was beautiful.”

“The nice part about the sweet corn, that was sort of just extra spending money. That’s the way we looked at it was it gave us some extra income, and it just bought you things you wouldn’t have been able to buy just on salary from the farm alone so, yeah.”

“When corn is ready to be harvested, like sweet corn, you can just go along and give the ear a quick snap, and it’ll just pop off, so you can be doing two rows at the same time, just snap snap snap, and then they’d be coming along with- used to use front-end loaders with the big wide boxes.”

“We grew sweet corn. We grew a fair bit of sweet corn, at one time about ten acres of sweet corn. We’d get up and pick 1000, 1500 dozen in the morning, and before we started chores you’d get up and 3:00, 4:00 and go out and pick sweet corn, and then when you got done doing that, somebody’d be sorting that and bagging it, and then you’d go at it and start milking the cows.”