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The corn-on-the-cob – or sweet corn corn. For some reason, North/Central Europe – season has all but ended, but throughout never adapted one of the various Native Amerthe area there are still acres of field corn to ican terms for the crop; the Spanish adopted be harvested. Admittedly, this has been a the Native American term, “maize.” rough year for corn, and every other crop, The confusion in words played out into the but thanks to improved agricultural tech20th Century. A story from post-World War II niques, there are fields of corn. is that when asked what Germans needed folIt is pretty difficult to not find an area of lowing the war, some replied, “korn,” meaning American life corn does not impact. That’s grains such as wheat and barley. Americans sort of fitting, as corn is an American crop. Mirrors of Smoke shipped them corn. For much of human history on the by Herman Lensing Another theory of how the crop got its North and South American continents, corn name is the ears’ resemblance to a horn. The and people have grown together. Corn was the grain of Latin word for horn is “cornu.” (The mythical creature choice in America even before Europeans came, and unicorn derives its name from the same root). there were various types of corn grown. That crop had Whatever the word used, the crop from Amerispread from Mexico to both North and South America ca spread throughout the world. Not always quickly. and adaptions were made for climate, soil conditions, In Spain, there was initial resistance because of a fear etc. that eating it would turn Europeans into Native AmeriUnlike most crops grown in America, it was Native cans. My mother more than once related stories of some Americans who introduced the grain to Europeans, and Germans who thought of corn as food for pigs and not not the other way around. human consumption. Today, the crop is used as a food What is interesting about corn is there really is no source around the world and, to some degree, there is a longer a wild version of corn. It was apparently devel- specialization in that. oped from some grain/grass by Native Americans in Flint corn is a primary food crop of Central and Mexico. Their initial plants were small, often with just South America. Popcorn, a sub-species of flint corn, is one ear per stem, and the cobs were about an inch long popped and eaten as a snack. and only a kernel or two wide. Dent corn (aka field corn) is raised primarily as aniDevelopment of the crop was underway before Co- mal foods, for processed foods and industrial use. lumbus’ explorations brought Europe permanently into Sweet corn is used in canning and eating off the cob. contact with the Americas. Besides being a food, corn is also processed into I already know that some are wondering how it can syrup and used as a sweetener in soft drinks, ice cream be stated that corn is an American crop. Most of us heard and some other foods, made into alcohol, fermented into the story from either the Bible or the popular rock op- whiskeys (think Minnesota 13), and as a starch used to eretta, “Joseph and his Amazing Technicolored Dream- help strengthen fabric. Even the paper you are reading coat,” where the Pharaoh of Egypt reference fields of benefits from the crop, as inks are often produced with corn in his dream. corn. Turns out corn is a great example of how a word A recent documentary of “The Field of Dreams” becomes associated with something other than its origi- movie talked about how the corn field became sort of a nal intent. The term “corn” has its roots in Old German character in the movie. through English and meant grain. The term for grain Dependence on the crop is something to think about (used in the ancient initial Bible stories) was translat- when driving between the fields of corn. That would be ed as korn/corn in German and English. When the En- a good time to thank generations of farmers, going back glish/German Europeans came to America the crop was to well before Columbus, for helping grow and develop known as Indian corn – and was eventually shortened to the crop we know as corn.
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