One of the best things about Long Island is all of the vegetable stands that sell lots of fresh stuff. We went to one that was a huge operation that had everything. A corn maze where you could walk in and get lost. Horse rides for the kids. A petting zoo. A pumpkin patch.
And fresh hot roasted corn. Smothered in hot butter. Nothing better on a chilly afternoon.
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Fall corn is AWESOME!
Our local Lions Club has a huge corn roast stand at the Wisconsin State Fair. They sell many thousands of ears of corn in a ten day period. Their corn is one of the reasons why I still go to the State Fair, even though much of it has turned into a schlock fest.
They leave the husks on the corn and soak it in salt water overnight, then it goes onto a huge charcoal grill to cook.
When it's done, someone peels back the husks and plunges the entire ear into melted butter. They sell you an ear like that, then you add the amount of salt you want.
I usually buy two or three ears during one visit to the Fair. Good stuff.
Haz, I've eaten your corn..it's the best! They have a corn fest in Sun Prairie, Wi. where they steam it in the husks, real good also. My bride thought I was a pervert the first time we went. You could get a tub o' corn for $2 back in the 80's. You would then take your corn over to a stand where high school girls would shuck it and lather your corn w/ butter!! There was the biggest hunk of butter I've ever seen and all these girls stroking butter on these 8 inch ears of corn...bare handed! You then went over to the salt and pepper tree. They had big salt and pepper shakers tied on strings on huge poles, @ eye level. I wanted to sit near the butter stand to eat the corn and watch more buttering. I was dragged away by my bride. There's also a corn fest in Cobb, Wi. but it's not as good and they didn't have butter girls. As time went on they had the butter girls use latex gloves..just not the same like using a condom just isn't the same. I've not been to the corn fest for probably 20 years now. I'm told there are no more butter girls.
Butter? Wow, those WI girls are classy. At my HS they just used saliva.
Saliva on corn? Did you grow up in Kentucky?
I thought "8 inches of corn" was a euphemism.
Hah! Titus is over on the other thread adding a half inch to his euphemism while throwing in cut mushrooms.
I thought it was the tree crotch that got him started, but it looks as if the peeling, plunging, buttering, huge poles @ eye level and mention of latex gloves over here, may have precipitated his corn fest.
Nothing gets things going like a rousing game of corn hole, eh?
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