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- noun Alternative spelling of
sweet corn .
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Examples
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Why, oh why, does she insist on calling sweetcorn "FEET corn"?
Half Pint Pixie 2008
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This is currently happening on the allotment, where foraging badgers have taken a liking to crops such as sweetcorn!
British Blogs 2009
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Remove the kernels from a couple of large heads of sweetcorn with a large knife.
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A small tin of Green Giant sweetcorn, eaten straight from the tin, is a favourite.
Archive 2009-07-01 Jean 2009
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As a pasta dish which contained neither tuna nor sweetcorn, it was bound to be a marvel, but there were other reasons for falling upon this manna from heaven – or, at least, Highgate.
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Beat an egg white until stiff then fold it into the sweetcorn.
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Now, we settle for onions, runner beans, a few potatoes, sweetcorn, courgettes and pumpkins with a couple of rows of parsnip, swede and fennel.
Jean's Knitting Jean 2009
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A small tin of Green Giant sweetcorn, eaten straight from the tin, is a favourite.
Jean's Knitting Jean 2009
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Sally Jaine, Totnes, DevonThey must have – our four bantams will only eat one variety of cabbage, and a call of "sweetcorn" will have them running faster than you'd think possible.
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You just need to open a can of sweetcorn or pineapple rings.
treeseed commented on the word sweetcorn
Sweet corn (Zea mays var. rugosa), also called sweetcorn, sugar corn, or simply corn, is a variety of maize with a high sugar content. Sweet corn is the result of a naturally-occurring recessive mutation in the genes which control conversion of sugar to starch inside the endosperm of the corn kernel. Unlike field corn varieties, which are harvested when the kernels are dry and fully mature, sweet corn is picked when immature and eaten as a vegetable, rather than a grain. Since the process of maturation involves converting sugar into starch, sweet corn stores poorly and must be eaten, canned, or frozen before the kernels become tough and starchy.
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January 30, 2008