Conquer Club

Dukasaur wrote:

DirtyDishSoap wrote:Mushrooms and anchovies, I'd rather eat wiener

I love mushrooms and anchovies!

I'll take your mushrooms and anchovies. You can eat my wiener.

2dimes wrote:Haven't you claimed to go to New York?

Symmetry wrote:

2dimes wrote:Haven't you claimed to go to New York?

The state or the city? I lived in the former, and have visited the latter a fair few times. Sweetcorn is nice upstate- ripe, shucked, and on the cob. On pizza it's just dumb.

Dukasaur wrote:

Symmetry wrote:

2dimes wrote:Haven't you claimed to go to New York?

The state or the city? I lived in the former, and have visited the latter a fair few times. Sweetcorn is nice upstate- ripe, shucked, and on the cob. On pizza it's just dumb.

Do they put it on pizza as just kernels, or actual cobs?

Sign painter wrote:Sweet Corn! Fresh Fruit. Homemade pies. Seafood

2dimes wrote:So I just had to rage delete my comment to cause you to switch to better trolling?

I can't tell if I'm wining or losing here.

Everyone wins with that last post though, so either way I'm going to enjoy the good stuff like ordering a pizza with corn on it to my buddy's house without telling him.

Is there corn in Britain that has another name besides "sweetcorn"? You would almost never see it worded that way here until it's used to lure you to a particular road side stand.

Sign painter wrote:Sweet Corn! Fresh Fruit. Homemade pies. Seafood

Symmetry wrote:

Dukasaur wrote:

Symmetry wrote:

2dimes wrote:Haven't you claimed to go to New York?

The state or the city? I lived in the former, and have visited the latter a fair few times. Sweetcorn is nice upstate- ripe, shucked, and on the cob. On pizza it's just dumb.

Do they put it on pizza as just kernels, or actual cobs?

Every pizza in both NYC and upstate has to have a full cob of sweetcorn.

Thanks, Obama!

If you're eating non-cob 'za, it's probably illegal.

mrswdk wrote:I don't think the word 'corn' is used here except as part of the words 'sweetcorn' or 'popcorn'. I wasn't aware there were any other types of corn, although Wiki says there are apparently. If someone said to me 'do you like corn?' I'd have no idea what they were talking about.

mrswdk wrote:I don't think the word 'corn' is used here except as part of the words 'sweetcorn' or 'popcorn'. I wasn't aware there were any other types of corn, although Wiki says there are apparently. If someone said to me 'do you like corn?' I'd have no idea what they were talking about.

1British The chief cereal crop of a district, especially (in England) wheat or (in Scotland) oats.
‘fields of corn’

1.1 The grain of a cereal crop.

1.2North American
another term for maize

2informal Something banal or sentimental.
‘the film is pure corn’

mrswdk wrote:"American food"

mrswdk wrote:I don't care what the dictionary that refuses to accept new words are actual words says, a wheat field is a wheat field not a 'field of corn'.

1. uncountable noun
Corn is used to refer to crops such as wheat and barley. It can also be used to refer to the seeds from these plants.
[British]
...fields of corn.
He filled the barn to the roof with corn.
regional note: in AM, use grain

Corn Laws

Corn laws, 1794-1846, set duties on grain imports into Britain to protect British agriculture from outside competition. (In Britain, "corn" is the name for CEREAL CROPS.

3 British : the grain of a cereal grass that is the primary crop of a region (such as wheat in Britain and oats in Scotland and Ireland); also : a plant that produces corn

Corn

[corne]

Any GRAIN such as BARLEY, OATS, RYE, WHEAT, but probably not RICE, nor the so-called INDIAN CORN that only became commercially available towards the end of this period in Britain. Sometimes PULSEs like BEANS and PEAS may also have been included. This generic meaning can clearly be seen in such records as 'In Corne and Catall' [Inventories (1543)], in which the grain was distinguished from the livestock. However, the term was often applied locally to the grain most commonly grown in that district so that in much of England it indicated WHEAT. This gives rise to records like 'Corn and Lent Graine now Growing' [Inventories (1723)] in which 'Lent Graine or LENT CORN would have been understood to mean BARLEY and/or perhaps OATS. Other records that have similar meanings are 'Mallt & corne in ye house' [Inventories (1634)], and 'Corne, Malt, and Oates' [Inventories (1723)].

B1 [ U ] UK (the seeds of) plants, such as wheat, maize, oats, and barley, that can be used to produce flour:
a sheaf of corn
grains of corn
​

[ U ] mainly US UK usually maize a tall plant grown in many parts of the world for its yellow seeds, which are eaten as food, made into flour, or fed to animals:
corn-fed chickens
the corn-growing areas of the Midwest
​

[ U ] mainly US UK usually sweetcorn the seeds of a particular type of maize plant, eaten as a vegetable

mrswdk wrote:You said 'British English'. It doesn't matter what your dictionaries say, I'm telling you what British people say.

This is like the time someone I know in China kept on trying and trying to tell me that British people say 'beancurd' and not 'tofu', because that's what her dictionary told her the English was. Didn't matter how many times I told the bish that everyone says 'tofu', she wouldn't believe me.