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Dent corn is useless. At least you can make bread from barley.

by ohiovr 4y ago

yellowapple 4y ago
Pardon? I reckon you've never heard of cornbread or corn tortillas, 'cause both of those are made primarily from dent corn. You might specifically be referring to yellow dent corn, since that's currently mostly used for animal feed, fuel, and plastics rather than human consumption, but I'd hardly call that "useless", either - even assuming it was somehow entirely inedible and not just less palatable than other sorts of corn.
- ohiovr 4y ago
  That's the kind my state grows. So I'm not going to eat it as I know what it tastes like. What kind of dent corn is grown in your state?
  - yellowapple 4y ago
    > That's the kind my state grows. So I'm not going to eat it as I know what it tastes like. In the event of nuclear armageddon you might be more inclined to acquire that particular taste - or at the very least figure out that yes, even yellow dent corn can be used to make bread and tortillas. I know it ain't as tasty as the sweet corn you're probably used to, but it's still edible and provides nutrition.
    - ohiovr 4y ago
      Oh I wouldn't disagree. I've done a lot of thought about the red horseman and the consequential black horseman. People, when they get hungry enough, will eat leaves, sawdust, even each other.
  - tomcam 4y ago
    Written like someone who not only hasn’t gone through a rough spot or three, but who has not even considered what life is like in less privileged parts of the world. It’s good to be you.
    - Trouble_007 4y ago
      Ok, I had to look it up 'Dent Corn' : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dent_corn https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dent_corn
- pixl97 4y ago
  If you just attemp to eat the yellow dent without further processing you're going to have a bad day, with that said nixtamalization isn't that hard to do. A bigger issue is that dent corn is a hybrid, it has to be farmed from seed corn and produces no offspring of its own. You better hope central Iowa and Illinois is still around in that case. The massive amount of fertilizer and assorted chemicals that allow dent to be so productive are likely to be on fire and the natural gas needed is likely going to have is own transport issues.
  - yellowapple 4y ago
    Sure, but the broader context is around what's already planted or harvested; even if you'd have to plant something other than dent corn later on, existing stockpiles are still useful even for human consumption.
- mickdeek86 4y ago
  Still I get a chuckle when I see people stealing corn from a field (I guess the Bible says you should let people glean) thinking they're getting corn on the cob. Especially when sweet corn is 10-50 cents/ear where I'm from.

Dent corn is useless. At least you can make bread from barley.

by ohiovr 4y ago

Dent corn is useless. At least you can make bread from barley.

Pardon? I reckon you've never heard of cornbread or corn tortillas, 'cause both of those are made primarily from dent corn. You might specifically be referring to yellow dent corn, since that's currently mostly used for animal feed, fuel, and plastics rather than human consumption, but I'd hardly call that "useless", either - even assuming it was somehow entirely inedible and not just less palatable than other sorts of corn.

ohiovr 4y ago
That's the kind my state grows. So I'm not going to eat it as I know what it tastes like. What kind of dent corn is grown in your state?
- yellowapple 4y ago
  > That's the kind my state grows. So I'm not going to eat it as I know what it tastes like. In the event of nuclear armageddon you might be more inclined to acquire that particular taste - or at the very least figure out that yes, even yellow dent corn can be used to make bread and tortillas. I know it ain't as tasty as the sweet corn you're probably used to, but it's still edible and provides nutrition.
  - ohiovr 4y ago
    Oh I wouldn't disagree. I've done a lot of thought about the red horseman and the consequential black horseman. People, when they get hungry enough, will eat leaves, sawdust, even each other.
- tomcam 4y ago
  Written like someone who not only hasn’t gone through a rough spot or three, but who has not even considered what life is like in less privileged parts of the world. It’s good to be you.
  - Trouble_007 4y ago
    Ok, I had to look it up 'Dent Corn' : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dent_corn https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dent_corn
pixl97 4y ago
If you just attemp to eat the yellow dent without further processing you're going to have a bad day, with that said nixtamalization isn't that hard to do. A bigger issue is that dent corn is a hybrid, it has to be farmed from seed corn and produces no offspring of its own. You better hope central Iowa and Illinois is still around in that case. The massive amount of fertilizer and assorted chemicals that allow dent to be so productive are likely to be on fire and the natural gas needed is likely going to have is own transport issues.
- yellowapple 4y ago
  Sure, but the broader context is around what's already planted or harvested; even if you'd have to plant something other than dent corn later on, existing stockpiles are still useful even for human consumption.
mickdeek86 4y ago
Still I get a chuckle when I see people stealing corn from a field (I guess the Bible says you should let people glean) thinking they're getting corn on the cob. Especially when sweet corn is 10-50 cents/ear where I'm from.