should corn on the cob just be called corn and corn that is canned be called corn off the cob?

Question

if we take an apple from the tree it is still called an apple since we do not alter its appearence in any way but if we were to make a sauce out of the apple we would then call it apple sauce same reasoning should be applied to the corn. if corn comes right off the stock it should just be called corn but when the corn kernels are taken off the cob to be canned they should be called corn off the cob.

Answer 1

Maybe it's just me, but I think it's confusing that way XD

Answer 2

Hey, since you ask, I'd say your analogy is false... The apple attaches directly to the tree(branch), whereas the corn attaches to the cob, that in its turn attaches to cardinal structure of the plant: the stalk. A closer analogy would be, perhaps, the grape, or more recently the tomato, where a distinction is made of 'on the vine'. You've got tomatoes, and then you have 'tomatoes-on-the-vine', and loose 'grapes' and 'grapes on the vine'. By that practice, the current distinction between 'corn, and ' corn on the cob' would be a straight parallel and therefore perfectly reasonable. (I.e. for your analogy to be viable, the contrasting distinction would have to be 'apple on the tree', which clearly is absurd in culinary terms. )

(With corn, as with grape and tomato etc, the carrier of the fruit, being the vine or the cob, is a structure only present when the fruit is present. That is not the case with topfruit like apples etc: they attach directly to the permanent structure of the plant, i.e. the tree branch.)

Can't say I've ever had to think about this one before, but thanks for the provocation! :-)

Answer 3

Sam, you pronounced you needed which you will witness an theory like this while it happens? nicely I did. I artwork with kadam1013 (kyle), or "huge TUNA" as i like to call him. i became into there for the genesis in the present day and it became into earth shattering! Tuna is amazingly a guy. while you're thinking what he sounds like. he's a go between Denny from gray's Anatomy and Joe Rogan from concern element. he's super-cool and mysterious like A FREAKIN NINJA!!!!! So sure, as of five/9/07 it is going to perpetually be corn off the cob.

Answer 4

Oh my goodness, you've nearly given me a headache. It's just like pork and beans. Even though there are more beans than pork, pork is still listed first. It's always been called "corn on the cob" when it's still on the cob. I think since the usual way of eating corn, is to have it off the cob, then that is why it is simply listed as corn. I hope I haven't given you a headache :)

Answer 5

That's a comedy routine by the late great Mitch Hedberg... it's the title of one of his comedy albums "Mitch All Together" based on that very joke


.

Answer 6

I don't see y not.