Corn

[tagliatelle]

Flowers

 

[AdmiralAK]

pop corn

 

[themacko]

on the cob.

 

[scruffy]

Are we talking about corn in the N. American sense of maize, or in the German (and possibly British?) sense of grain in general?

It makes all the difference in the world, you see.

 

[themacko]

I'm a dumb American, I only know one type of corn that's the yellow things that grow in rows and you toss on the b-b-q. WTF is maize?

Oh well I guess I do know about corn in cereal...

 

[scruffy]

the yellow things that grow in rows and you toss on the b-b-q.

That' maize alright. I prefer it boiled to roasted, but maybe I just never had it done right. Anyway, I'm pretty sure 'corn' means any sort of grain at all (including corn/maize) in Britain, and I know Korn is grain in German.

Since nobody seems to know exactly where Herve is from (and he tends to keep a body guessing) although consensus is it's a Benelux country, I figured we'd better get this settled once and for all, since corn seems pretty central to the discussion, and Einstein once said something along the lines that if he were given an hour to save the world he'd spend 55 minutes defining the problem, and I'll just shut up now and go pet my cat.

 

[edX]

the fellow american should also know about corn as in bad humor, cornball as in goofy, and corny as in more bad humor. but the text of the message was "flowers". must be corn squeezings. mighty fine stuff if you can tolerate the burn.

Flower Power to you too herve!!!