Talk:Baby corn

Thailand citation

Where is the source that most baby corn is grown in Thailand and Taiwan? Having lived in Taiwan for several years I would say that baby corn quite rare compared to in the U.K.. Speaking to some Taiwanese friends they normally associate baby corn with Western food, not Chinese. It's been common in the U.K. for many years and isn't really associated with Asian food. So I don't really understand why it's stated it's an important food crop in Taiwan or that it is primarily used in Asian cuisine (I confess I don't know about Thai cuisine specifically). --Bpf101 (talk) 14:47, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Is baby corn not cultivated in China, then? I was under the impression that it was. Then again, when I buy cans of it at the local Asian grocery, every brand is marked "Product of Thailand," not China.

[1] It is both cultivated in China, and in "authentic" Chinese cuisine... I have no idea why the article originally said otherwise. Janet13 21:45, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the link. Does anyone know how long they've cultivated baby corn in China? Americans do think of it as a distinctively Chinese vegetable, but given that corn is a New World species and the rest of the world didn't know it existed until only about 400 years ago, its use in Chinese cuisine can't go back to antiquity.

Was corn brought to China by Western missionaries in the mid-19th Century, like hot peppers were? I'm becoming quite curious about it.

Not sure... Regular corn, if you believe this [2] "In such a way (Spanish and Portugese expanding global trade routes) maize quickly penetrated Africa, India and China during the 16th century." Baby corn is just the little one, and from looking around other sites (I don't remember where anymore, sorry... try googling "baby corn" +China or something like that), I think the discovering and popularity of harvesting premature corn is a relatively recent one. Janet13 06:43, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Baby corn

Is baby corn not associated with Thai cuisine in the US? Nil Einne 16:53, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

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This can happen when the servers get behind in processing updates. It should correct itself in a little while. -- Beland (talk) 00:22, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

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What happens to the stalks?

Does anyone have a reliable source that says what happens to the stalks when the baby corn is removed? Does the plant compensate by trying growing more ears? If so, how many ears of baby corn can be taken before the plant gives up and dies? Tomer^talk 18:02, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Suggest removing "In Popular Culture"

The baby corn#In popular culture section doesn't, IMHO, have any "notable" entries. I'd suggest removing the whole section.

I've added an {in popular culture} tag for now, but if I don't hear objections, I'll remove the section in a few days. -- Narsil (talk) 19:40, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

In the movie Big, Tom Hanks's character encounters a piece of baby corn and attempts to eat it as a normal, full-sized ear of corn, to the amusement of his female companion.

In the Simpsons episode "Weekend at Burnsie's," the Simpsons eat genetically modified vegetables. Homer complains that the corn is the same size. Marge replies, "That’s baby corn."

Hearing no objections, I removed the "In popular culture" section. -- Narsil (talk) 18:57, 18 June 2009 (UTC)