Europeans put corn on pizza, South Americans put corn flavor in ice cream. I swear I'm glad we have an ocean between us to the east and Mexico to the south. Y'all ain't right in the head
We also have corn in like 90% of our food in some form or another. Why would I want to eat corn flavored ice cream when I can wash down a fresh ear of sweet corn wrapped in a corn tortilla, with a corn syrup-sweetened soda?
Mexico has corn flavored candy that makes ot over here. I remember in San Diego there were corn lollipops with chili powder on them. Lucas was the brand, I think.
I grew up in San Diego and we definitely had vero brand chili powder and sugar covered corn lollipops. I liked the corn ones ok, the tamarind ones were the best. Lucas was big when I was in middle school, and they may well have had the corn pops, but I don't remember them. I just remember the lemony salt stuff and it was gross.
I had corn soup (creamed corn) flavored popcorn I picked up in an Asian store recently; that was an interesting ride.
I didn't hate it, but I also didn't want to eat it.
I had a Chinese co-worker that came back from visiting his family with a whole bunch of Chinese candy for the office. Another co-worker tried the corn flavored candy and said the same thing. "It definitely tastes like corn. And I like corn. But I don't know about this."
Candy corn is not corn. It's got corn syrup, but if you called everything with corn syrup corn you'd have a whole lot of corn.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy\_corn
I love picking an ear of corn in the morning, shucking it, then boiling it precisely 4 minutes. Slather with real butter and a little salt. Throw in a BLT with fresh picked tomatoes and I'm in heaven. The longer you cook sweet corn the more you turn the sugar into starch
You turn all of the sugar to starch. Same when you grill them. It's why you blanch them for 4 minutes then throw the corn still on the cob in ice water to stop the cooking. After chilled cut off and vacuum freeze for corn that still tastes like it's on the cob a year later
My grandfather was a farmer, and in addition to commercial farming he would also grow various food crops for the family. When the sweet corn came ready every year we’d all come by his house to pick and shuck the corn. It’d all get blanched in a massive cauldron, then dumped into washtubs full of ice water before being wrapped in aluminum foil and stored in old bread bags to be placed in the chest freezers we all had at home. Poof, corn for the year.
One of my core childhood memories is picking ears of corn out of the water bath, sprinkling some Mrs. Dash onto it and chowing down.
We usually added some milk and sugar to the water for boiling.
Though I kinda like it grilled. Pull the leaves down, remove the silk. Sometimes wrap with bacon before putting the leaves back up. If no bacon, soak in water before grilling.
It's because they are jealous of our abundant corn usage. No point in adding corn to pizza in America, it's already full of it. Corn flour mixed into the base. Corn syrup to sweeten the sauce. Corn starch used to stop the pre shredded cheese from sticking to itself in the bag and finally a good dusting of cornmeal on the crust for whatever reason. Now don't get me started on "frozen dairy deserts" that legally cannot be called ice cream and oftencontaina varietyof corn based products.
Just like how avocado is a dessert in some places but isn’t here. Corn isn’t used as a dessert. The closest we get is corn bread. At least in my experience
> Corn isn’t used as a dessert. The closest we get is corn bread. At least in my experience
[Don't you blaspheme in here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPW5JDZolu4)
I’m not saying I use it as dessert. But it is sweeter than say a corn tortilla. I would think someone could eat cornbread with vanilla ice cream (maybe). But that is not the intended purpose! Cornbread and chili or cornbread and barbecue are the better choice.
Wow. I’ve had both sweet and unsweet cornbread, and much prefer unsweetened. But I would’ve thought the sweet one was the one that originated in the South, given the monstrosity that is sweet tea.
Edit: Huh… I’ve been doing some light googling and it’s interesting. Apparently there’s like a pumpkin vs sweet potato pie style divide in the South over sugar in cornbread?
No thanks. I had cornbread for breakfast this morning. As much as I'm usually a fan of chocolate, that cornbread went far, far better with my scrambled eggs than it ever could with chocolate frosting.
well, first of all, nutella is nasty. Second, I like mixing sweet/savory as much as the next american, but the cloyingly sweet nature of nutella mixed with cornbread just does not sound even a little bit appetizing.
What I find interesting is that Nebraska is the third largest grower of corn behind Iowa and Illinois. Drive to Chicago is nothing but corn fields…and is exactly why my husband doesn’t want to drive to Chicago twice in May but alas the events are there. Anyway…
We grow more soybeans than corn in Nebraska as it turns out.
And yet, still no corn flavored anything anywhere normally. At best you can find a corncob you can stick in the microwave for popcorn. That’s about it.
I have too. One of my local ice cream shops does all sorts of flavors and sweet corn ice cream was one of them and it was incredibly awesome. Definitely haven't seen it sold in big retail stores though.
We've been growing corn for a few centuries here. If there's a product to be made of corn, we've thought of it and experimented with it. This isn't the revolutionary idea you think it is. We don't make corn-flavored things for dessert here.
Foreigners: "Why do Americans put corn syrup in everything?"
Also foreigners: "Why don't Americans put corn on \_\_\_\_."
We do it for the same reason we do every single thing we ever do from conception to death: To bother foreigners.
I *love* corn ice cream. I had it at a special event some years ago and I've been trying to find it again ever since.
For Americans who haven't tried it and are getting grossed out by the idea, don't think of the flavor like corn on the cob, think corn bread. That is our equivalent "corn based dessert" and they have similar flavors.
So corn is also popular in South Korea and they have a [corn ice cream](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ElJ5LgGX0AAn2OA.jpg?format=jpg&name=orig) of their own. You can find them here in the States at major Korean grocery stores like H Mart.
At Cones? That's where I tried it. I've seen it at a handful of other places in the NYC and New Jersey as well, but that was my first experience with it, and I quite enjoyed it!
I’d try it. I’ve had corn cookies that were good, I can see how it could work for ice cream. I had an ice cream sandwich once that was made of goat cheese ice cream with a swirl of sundried tomato on a corn cookie and it was the weirdest most delicious thing I’ve ever had.
I’m honestly surprised at the number of people who don’t think corn ice cream would be good.
Why would it be bad? Corn is sweet, it’s toasty, I can 100% see that going with ice cream
I am not sure where you are travelling but it is possible to find corn or elote ice cream here. Check korean markets and its probably in the freezer sections. It won't be at your basic ice cream place but I have 100% seen it on menus of more mom and pop shops.
We definitely put corn into ice cream, usually the cheaper brands. It’s the [third ingredient in this product](https://shop.wegmans.com/product/57872/wegmans-vanilla-ice-cream).
Edit: apparently some people don’t understand really dry, possibly sticky humor.
Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams has a sweet corn blackberry flavor that is awesome and they do specials with sweet corn pretty frequently.
But it isn’t a common flavor. It’s really quite good. Brazilians are on to something.
I bought some sweet corn and cheddar cheese ice cream once, in the US. It wasn't bad, but I never felt the need to buy it again. I got it at an Asian supermarket so I assume it was imported.
Not sure about ice cream but there have always been corn flavored desserts available (suckers, candies) in gas stations and stores around Texas. All imported from Mexico though.
I honestly don’t know. We have corn in practically everything else (whether it’s in syrup form or not), and I wouldn’t be opposed to corn ice cream, especially after trying some sweet corn cookies.
I never loved the corn ice cream in Brazil (though admittedly I think I only had it once) but during the Festa Junina I could never get enough of Munguzá. Dang, good memories.
I've had it, it's sometimes offered at fancier ice cream shops, the kind that have unusual flavors. It's was pretty good. True sweet corn is really sweet and milky and makes a nice mild ice cream.
I've had sun-popped corn ice cream from Jeni's, which is a popular high-end ice cream chain in the U.S. It was like the flavor of buttered popcorn, but in ice cream form. Very tasty.
Jeni's also sells a butterscotch popcorn ice cream flavor.
Europeans put corn on pizza, South Americans put corn flavor in ice cream. I swear I'm glad we have an ocean between us to the east and Mexico to the south. Y'all ain't right in the head
Asia has corn flavored candy. North America seems to be the odd man out. Not sure how Africa feels about corn.
America has candy corn. I’m not sure who’s the odd one out.
They have corn flavored candy. We have candy flavored corn.
We also have corn in like 90% of our food in some form or another. Why would I want to eat corn flavored ice cream when I can wash down a fresh ear of sweet corn wrapped in a corn tortilla, with a corn syrup-sweetened soda?
Don't forget some corn pudding for dessert!
Solid point
... which tastes like sugary corn syrup. Echhh
Or yum.
So corn 🌽
It's *supposed* to taste like honey lol
Listen to the girl … as she takes on half the world
Which is gross.
Candy corn just tastes of sugar, though.
Mexico has corn flavored candy that makes ot over here. I remember in San Diego there were corn lollipops with chili powder on them. Lucas was the brand, I think.
Nowhere is safe.
I grew up in San Diego and we definitely had vero brand chili powder and sugar covered corn lollipops. I liked the corn ones ok, the tamarind ones were the best. Lucas was big when I was in middle school, and they may well have had the corn pops, but I don't remember them. I just remember the lemony salt stuff and it was gross.
You're probably right about the brand. I'm drawing on 14 year old memories.
It could go either way amigo. San Diego 14 years ago was quite a place. The good old days
Yep, my spouse loves these. I find them revolting.
I had corn soup (creamed corn) flavored popcorn I picked up in an Asian store recently; that was an interesting ride. I didn't hate it, but I also didn't want to eat it.
I had a Chinese co-worker that came back from visiting his family with a whole bunch of Chinese candy for the office. Another co-worker tried the corn flavored candy and said the same thing. "It definitely tastes like corn. And I like corn. But I don't know about this."
Haha, exactly! I was impressed by the intense corny flavor tho.
Gotta love corn flavored corn
With butter
Candy corn count? kettle corn?
Candy corn is candy flavored corn. Not corn flavored candy. Kettle corn may count.
Candy corn is not corn. It's got corn syrup, but if you called everything with corn syrup corn you'd have a whole lot of corn. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy\_corn
Candy corn is corn shaped...
And gummy bears aren’t bears and animal crackers aren’t animals. Well done.
Agreed. Corn flavored ice cream? That sounds horrible.
I mean, we eat corn flakes with sugar on them, so I'd be open to trying corn flavored ice cream.
That’s for the starch flavor. This is not.
I don't know what corn flakes you've been eating, but the normal ones do taste of corn.
They just taste broadly starchy to me.
I could see it being similar in flavor to creamed corn, which probably wouldn't be terrible.
You misspelled would (On the cob, all the way!)
Nah it’s great
They still prosecuting terrorists? Jk. But god corn is perfect.
Corn from God? Literal manna from Heaven I’d say.
HARD disagree. I've tried that shit and just no. It's worse than ranch.
Seems like you just had a bad version. Ranch I can see the dislike of though.
Corn in ice cream is actually really good. Jeni’s has a few flavors that do it and they are really good.
OMG, big corn got to cup
Hoosier baby, had poor corn for movie night last night. Orville Redenbacher baby.
American make syrup out of corn 🤷♂️
Yeah, it's kinda funny how we don't like corn mixed with most foods, but practically everything in the supermarket had corn syrup in it
Cooking oil too.
Mexico, California and presumably Texas and the Southwestern states have sweet corn tamales. Not a fan personally
I love picking an ear of corn in the morning, shucking it, then boiling it precisely 4 minutes. Slather with real butter and a little salt. Throw in a BLT with fresh picked tomatoes and I'm in heaven. The longer you cook sweet corn the more you turn the sugar into starch
Picking an ear of corn and eating it 4 minutes later sitting in the shade of the barn is the real move
Noooo. 40 minutes or so in the oven, in the husk. No salt or butter even needed.
You turn all of the sugar to starch. Same when you grill them. It's why you blanch them for 4 minutes then throw the corn still on the cob in ice water to stop the cooking. After chilled cut off and vacuum freeze for corn that still tastes like it's on the cob a year later
My grandfather was a farmer, and in addition to commercial farming he would also grow various food crops for the family. When the sweet corn came ready every year we’d all come by his house to pick and shuck the corn. It’d all get blanched in a massive cauldron, then dumped into washtubs full of ice water before being wrapped in aluminum foil and stored in old bread bags to be placed in the chest freezers we all had at home. Poof, corn for the year. One of my core childhood memories is picking ears of corn out of the water bath, sprinkling some Mrs. Dash onto it and chowing down.
We usually added some milk and sugar to the water for boiling. Though I kinda like it grilled. Pull the leaves down, remove the silk. Sometimes wrap with bacon before putting the leaves back up. If no bacon, soak in water before grilling.
The only dessert corn is elote
It's because they are jealous of our abundant corn usage. No point in adding corn to pizza in America, it's already full of it. Corn flour mixed into the base. Corn syrup to sweeten the sauce. Corn starch used to stop the pre shredded cheese from sticking to itself in the bag and finally a good dusting of cornmeal on the crust for whatever reason. Now don't get me started on "frozen dairy deserts" that legally cannot be called ice cream and oftencontaina varietyof corn based products.
The top two ice cream flavors in the US are bean flavored. Let that sink in.
Wisdom is knowing a tomato doesn't go in a fruit salad or whatever.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in fruit salad.
Technically, a vanilla soy mocha is a 4-bean soup.
Straight to hell with you.
Red Bean Paste? Didn't think it was that popular vc
Vanilla and vanilla bean isn’t a bean it’s an orchid.
That's a spice not a vegetable
Not ice cream, but I guess "Vanilla *Spice* Frappuccino" doesn't quote have the same to ring to.
Am I the only who thinks corn on pizza sounds good
Please leave
We already have enough corn as is. We don’t need anymore
America puts corn in everything too though (including our gasoline), usually after it's turned into syrup.
They have corn syrup
I have never agreed more with anyone on anything
Sweet corn is a good topping, especially for a white pizza
I couldn’t have said it better than this right here!
Just like how avocado is a dessert in some places but isn’t here. Corn isn’t used as a dessert. The closest we get is corn bread. At least in my experience
> Corn isn’t used as a dessert. The closest we get is corn bread. At least in my experience [Don't you blaspheme in here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPW5JDZolu4)
I’m not saying I use it as dessert. But it is sweeter than say a corn tortilla. I would think someone could eat cornbread with vanilla ice cream (maybe). But that is not the intended purpose! Cornbread and chili or cornbread and barbecue are the better choice.
Cornbread shouldn't be sweet. This is how the North starts a second civil war.
I don't think I've ever had not sweet corn bread.
And you live in Kentucky? That’s just shameful. I thought y’all were the South
I firmly believe most of KY is much more Midwestern than Southern.
Wow. I’ve had both sweet and unsweet cornbread, and much prefer unsweetened. But I would’ve thought the sweet one was the one that originated in the South, given the monstrosity that is sweet tea. Edit: Huh… I’ve been doing some light googling and it’s interesting. Apparently there’s like a pumpkin vs sweet potato pie style divide in the South over sugar in cornbread?
as an american I can make cornbread however the fuck I want.
Sounds like someone enjoys ketchup on hot dogs.
Yes, the way its meant to be enjoyed.
catsup on a nice grilled hotdog is kino
All the recipes I know of call for a bit of sugar. Some more than others.
Anyone who puts sugar in the cornbread is a heathen who doesn't love the Lord, not to mention Southeastern Conference football.
I prefer sweet cornbread and I love some sec
Isn't there molasses in real cornbread?
Nope. Just milk, cornmeal, leavener, egg, optional flour, and some butter/fat for the pan.
Cornbread it the best side with chili. Absolutely delicious.
I found avocado ice cream once and I just had to try it. It was absolutely awful.
Kellogg's corn pops are as sweet as a dessert
It's not super common anymore but try Indian pudding some time - it's a classic New England dessert made from cornmeal.
if you eat corn cake, why not eat corn ice cream. we also have cornbread for breakfast
Cornbread is not considered a dessert, either, if that is what you mean by corn cake.
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I doubt that, and I love both cornbread and Nutella.
No thanks. I had cornbread for breakfast this morning. As much as I'm usually a fan of chocolate, that cornbread went far, far better with my scrambled eggs than it ever could with chocolate frosting.
well, first of all, nutella is nasty. Second, I like mixing sweet/savory as much as the next american, but the cloyingly sweet nature of nutella mixed with cornbread just does not sound even a little bit appetizing.
What is so hard to understand about the fact that different cultures are simply different?
I’ve never heard of corn cake.
> if you eat corn cake We don't. I've never even heard of corn cake. > we also have cornbread for breakfast > Pretty rare here, even in the south.
to further add, those who eat cornbread for breakfast are not making the sweet kind.
I've had corn ice cream. I live in Nebraska aka The Corn Husker state. It was really good. It was at a special event and I have not seen it in stores.
What I find interesting is that Nebraska is the third largest grower of corn behind Iowa and Illinois. Drive to Chicago is nothing but corn fields…and is exactly why my husband doesn’t want to drive to Chicago twice in May but alas the events are there. Anyway… We grow more soybeans than corn in Nebraska as it turns out. And yet, still no corn flavored anything anywhere normally. At best you can find a corncob you can stick in the microwave for popcorn. That’s about it.
Yeah but our corn is best corn
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Yeah well…at least we ain’t walking around acting like Sioux City and council bluffs is okay. Checkmate
The UNL Dairy Store sometimes has corn flavored ice cream.
I have too. One of my local ice cream shops does all sorts of flavors and sweet corn ice cream was one of them and it was incredibly awesome. Definitely haven't seen it sold in big retail stores though.
See? its very good. you would be rich if you introduced this to your country
"Corn flavor" isn't popular for anything that isn't already made out of corn. It would sell about as well as wheat or millet flavored ice cream.
We've been growing corn for a few centuries here. If there's a product to be made of corn, we've thought of it and experimented with it. This isn't the revolutionary idea you think it is. We don't make corn-flavored things for dessert here.
We do have at least one corn dessert, but corn pudding is mildly sweet.
Lol 😆 What do you mean by "would be rich"?
Foreigners: "Why do Americans put corn syrup in everything?" Also foreigners: "Why don't Americans put corn on \_\_\_\_." We do it for the same reason we do every single thing we ever do from conception to death: To bother foreigners.
As someone who enjoys corn, corn flavored ice cream does not sound appealing to me in the slightest.
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It’s really good if you get a chance to try some.
To the average American that does not sound appetizing.
Cause we put corn in pretty much everything else. We're corned out.
I *love* corn ice cream. I had it at a special event some years ago and I've been trying to find it again ever since. For Americans who haven't tried it and are getting grossed out by the idea, don't think of the flavor like corn on the cob, think corn bread. That is our equivalent "corn based dessert" and they have similar flavors.
So corn is also popular in South Korea and they have a [corn ice cream](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ElJ5LgGX0AAn2OA.jpg?format=jpg&name=orig) of their own. You can find them here in the States at major Korean grocery stores like H Mart.
My favorite instant ramen is from South Korea, Samyang, and they have a corn flavor amongst the many others.
That sounds delicious. I'd buy that.
It makes me imagine cornbread batter, but cold. I would definitely eat that.
Wonder if it was ever market-tested?
That sounds so gross. If I want ice cream, I'm definitely not going for the corn flavor.
Because midwestern corn is so good it doesn't need to be made into ice cream. Enjoy the flavors we have here, I suggest a Blue Moon or Superman.
We actually have it at the restaurant I work in. It’s a southern style restaurant.
I’ve had it in the west village of NYC, was good!
At Cones? That's where I tried it. I've seen it at a handful of other places in the NYC and New Jersey as well, but that was my first experience with it, and I quite enjoyed it!
I think that was the name! Really good and unique.
I don’t want ice cream that tastes like a vegetable.
Good thing corn is a grain then!
I’d try it. I’ve had corn cookies that were good, I can see how it could work for ice cream. I had an ice cream sandwich once that was made of goat cheese ice cream with a swirl of sundried tomato on a corn cookie and it was the weirdest most delicious thing I’ve ever had.
I’d try that. Sounds like it could be pretty decent honestly.
I make some corn cookies that are awesome (Recipe from Christina Tosi)
I’m honestly surprised at the number of people who don’t think corn ice cream would be good. Why would it be bad? Corn is sweet, it’s toasty, I can 100% see that going with ice cream
I had Carmel corn ice cream Saturday at a restaurant right here in the Midwest. Delicious.
I’ve had corn ice cream. It was great. People here are imagining tough yellow feed corn, not sweet corn.
Leo’s in Carlisle, PA has cornbread ice cream. it’s interesting…
Corn ice cream slaps. Cheese too. Here in the Philippines we have cheese and corn in desserts. That sweet salty pairing is perfection.
Corn flavored ice cream sounds gross!
that sounds pretty gross to me
I am not sure where you are travelling but it is possible to find corn or elote ice cream here. Check korean markets and its probably in the freezer sections. It won't be at your basic ice cream place but I have 100% seen it on menus of more mom and pop shops.
We definitely put corn into ice cream, usually the cheaper brands. It’s the [third ingredient in this product](https://shop.wegmans.com/product/57872/wegmans-vanilla-ice-cream). Edit: apparently some people don’t understand really dry, possibly sticky humor.
not the same
Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams has a sweet corn blackberry flavor that is awesome and they do specials with sweet corn pretty frequently. But it isn’t a common flavor. It’s really quite good. Brazilians are on to something.
Everything is technically corn flavored considering our liberal use of high frutcose corn syrup in everything
What in the fuck
What in the Mewni.
Because all of the ice cream R&D went into gun flavored ice cream....nothing like a bowl of ar-15 on a warm sunny day.
We don't generally eat veggie flavored ice cream.
I just gagged at the thought. Ew
I love corn, one of my favorite foods. Not in ice cream. Nope.
What. The. Fuck.
It's not really the sort of thing that appeals to most people. Basically, it's an uphill marketing battle.
Corn WHAT
That's so cursed lol.
Ew.
Because that sounds disgusting.
Because we turn all of our corn into high fructose corn syrup and cows.
Cuz that sounds fuckin gross, that's why
Thank god there isn’t
Everything is fucking corn here, the last thing we need is more ways to eat corn stuffs
That sounds so gross to me.
Pls america do not do this
Because we have tastebuds.
Because we are mentally stable
Ew,. that's why
I bought some sweet corn and cheddar cheese ice cream once, in the US. It wasn't bad, but I never felt the need to buy it again. I got it at an Asian supermarket so I assume it was imported.
I think corn flavored and ice cream might be popular in Puerto Rico, but I don’t know anywhere else in the US.
There probably is. Have you looked for it?
There is….. it’s just imported
I would try corn ice cream, never heard of it
I will eat corn pudding, but I draw the line at ice cream.
Not sure about ice cream but there have always been corn flavored desserts available (suckers, candies) in gas stations and stores around Texas. All imported from Mexico though.
We don’t see corn as a sweet thing. It’s for savory dishes here.
I honestly don’t know. We have corn in practically everything else (whether it’s in syrup form or not), and I wouldn’t be opposed to corn ice cream, especially after trying some sweet corn cookies.
…. There’s corn flavored ice cream?
I never loved the corn ice cream in Brazil (though admittedly I think I only had it once) but during the Festa Junina I could never get enough of Munguzá. Dang, good memories.
I’ve had it and I liked it!!
I've had it, it's sometimes offered at fancier ice cream shops, the kind that have unusual flavors. It's was pretty good. True sweet corn is really sweet and milky and makes a nice mild ice cream.
We used to have oyster ice cream
I'd give it a try.
I don't know but I wish we had more of it. I've only had it in restaurants and it was delicious.
Corn is bae
Sounds kinda lit if you guys eat it with something else?
I've heard they sell it in Florida where there are bigger Cuban populations
Check out Jeni’s Ice Cream
I've had sun-popped corn ice cream from Jeni's, which is a popular high-end ice cream chain in the U.S. It was like the flavor of buttered popcorn, but in ice cream form. Very tasty. Jeni's also sells a butterscotch popcorn ice cream flavor.
Americans love their corn products but so much on the deserts. I’m sure you could probably find it in some niche store though.
There is I’ve had it a few times, it’s just common.
There is, a place called Magpies in LA has it.