Rotorhead 
09/01/2007, 17:50:57
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Especially among Germans corn is considered unfit for humans to eat. It is strictly feed for livestock. There are the occasional German or Austrian who lives for a while in the US and developes a taste for corn on the cob and, once home, must indulge this little appetite in complete secrecy. These Germans will beg us American service people to buy them corn at the Exchange, but don't let the neighbors know. Hence my question. I don't recall corn in any stricly European cuisine and it took me half of Adam Smith's " The Wealth of Nations" to understand that what he calls "corn" in that book is what we now call wheat. He had to make reference to maize before I decided to ask my prof ( Milton Freidman's son David was the prof for my History of Economic Thought course at UCLA ) what the good Mr. Smith was talking about.
Think that is strange you should have seen how I repulsed a German woman, the owner of a Gasthaus, by drinking cold milk at breakfast. Nein, nein she yelled at me. WTF? Oh, it is supposed to be heated scalding hot and poured on you cornflakes ( Kellogs Cornflakes no less ) but never ever drunk neat as I did. Shame on me! :-)
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