It's low-maintenance and they put corn syrup into everything
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
Here are the three most Jedocesque things I have ever written on this website:
I spent quite a bit of time as a kid in grain silos with a rope around my waist knocking corn encrustations off the walls with a monkey wrench. So I know that field corn is great ball pit material. Very smooth and slithery and pleasant to touch, would love to roll around in some right now.
I spent a much smaller but even more memorable amount of time at the bottom of mostly-empty grain silos with a rope around my waist scooping years-old rotted corn out of the bit of the cone-shaped floor where the auger couldn't reach. I used a coffee can, and it took so many trips from the bottom of the silo to the door. The smell is the worst thing I have ever experienced by an extremely wide margin, and I have mucked out chicken coops and rabbit hutches and unloaded hay in feedlots and installed panels in pig barns and worked in a public library for almost a decade. So I know how a corn room could break bad without proper moisture control.
I spent a still smaller but incredibly memorable amount of time as a teen volunteer at the county extension office's farm safety day camp, which included a little model grain bin that would suck a Beanie Baby bear to its horrible death at the flick of a switch. So I know precisely why it is important to keep your head above the corn.
A common First job for farm kids in Australia is working the grain silos/depots during harvest.
It’s dangerous as fuck but they didn’t want to pay, like, a reasonable wage to do it. They would’ve just employed all backpackers (they do it to small extent) but it requires training because it’s a dangerous job. Better to train up the local kids so they can work 5-6 seasons before they find something better
JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
I can't believe you internet freaks are talking seriously about grain entrapment, this has been my running gag about how weird my childhood was with city folk for the past twenty years. I feel oddly exposed.
Blake TDo you have enemies then?Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered Userregular
I mean, I wouldn’t say corn is that easy to cultivate, if that was the case, we’d see other countries grow corn on the scale of America. It’s just due to the money farmers get from the subsidies that the corn lobbies make.
3cl1ps3I will build a labyrinth to house the cheeseRegistered Userregular
Corn grows like an absolute weed in North America, dude. The subsidies started and persist in large part because it is so easy to grow here.
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Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
I walked through some cornfields for the first time ever recently because there are some close to my new house. Thanks to movies I spent the whole time expecting to be jumped and murdered by a hick with some rusty farm hook.
help me out here. Why, exactly, is this so unsettling?
I feel like my parents took me to something like this when I was a kid and I also feel like the corn had some weird dirty texture I didn't like? Maybe we visited a farm, feels pretty likely
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Blake TDo you have enemies then?Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered Userregular
Corn grows like an absolute weed in North America, dude. The subsidies started and persist in large part because it is so easy to grow here.
You wouldn’t need a subsidy if it was that easy to grow. That’s the point of a subsidy.
The subsidy allows them to use correct fertilisers and invest in high quality irrigation and water, so much so you end up sticking it in stuff where it doesn’t belong, such as cows, bread and lollies. So yes. I guess if you want you can say it grows like a weed.
Corn grows like an absolute weed in North America, dude. The subsidies started and persist in large part because it is so easy to grow here.
You wouldn’t need a subsidy if it was that easy to grow. That’s the point of a subsidy.
The subsidy allows them to use correct fertilisers and invest in high quality irrigation and water, so much so you end up sticking it in stuff where it doesn’t belong, such as cows, bread and lollies. So yes. I guess if you want you can say it grows like a weed.
Uh, no shit. The corn subsidy is the biggest waste of money the United States commits to agriculture.
Subsidies for food are primarily a means of stabilizing food prices as a safety net for farmers. After shit like the dust bowl and the Great Depression, not having enough food to feed the country was an actual problem the US was staring in the face of for a while.
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PiptheFairFrequently not in boats.Registered Userregular
I mean, I wouldn’t say corn is that easy to cultivate, if that was the case, we’d see other countries grow corn on the scale of America. It’s just due to the money farmers get from the subsidies that the corn lobbies make.
corn was cultivated as the primary cereal grain in pre-columbian america for literal millennia throughout the entire super-continent at pretty much every altitude
corn subsidies exist as a relic of the dust bowl when we predominately had small family-owned farms to keep them solvent and feeding america during the depression, they continue because the corn lobby is absolutely monolithic and they want free money
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Why do Americans love corn so much??
Corn rules everything around me
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
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... polenta is ok, in small amounts. That's about my limit for corn-based food.
So, a polenta pit is more your speed than the corn barn is what I'm hearing
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corn chowdah is good too
I'd at least dip a toe.
been awful hard on the farm with only big john and emmy lou
That is precisely the mood I was looking for
1:20 is what death in a grain bin looks like
It’s dangerous as fuck but they didn’t want to pay, like, a reasonable wage to do it. They would’ve just employed all backpackers (they do it to small extent) but it requires training because it’s a dangerous job. Better to train up the local kids so they can work 5-6 seasons before they find something better
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Well, we've finally figured out your perfect career.
Construction team of your local government. Building parks etc.
it's easy to cultivate and extremely versatile
Why don’t you just marry it then huh, Pip?
Ya fukin corn lovin, loud talkin son of a bitch!!!
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Satans..... hints.....
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Corn is tall it's true. We could try barley next time if it's easier?
That'd be great, thanks a lot. Tuesday is the best day for me.
I feel like my parents took me to something like this when I was a kid and I also feel like the corn had some weird dirty texture I didn't like? Maybe we visited a farm, feels pretty likely
You wouldn’t need a subsidy if it was that easy to grow. That’s the point of a subsidy.
The subsidy allows them to use correct fertilisers and invest in high quality irrigation and water, so much so you end up sticking it in stuff where it doesn’t belong, such as cows, bread and lollies. So yes. I guess if you want you can say it grows like a weed.
Satans..... hints.....
Uh, no shit. The corn subsidy is the biggest waste of money the United States commits to agriculture.
Subsidies for food are primarily a means of stabilizing food prices as a safety net for farmers. After shit like the dust bowl and the Great Depression, not having enough food to feed the country was an actual problem the US was staring in the face of for a while.
corn's taken
she's married to the sea
corn was cultivated as the primary cereal grain in pre-columbian america for literal millennia throughout the entire super-continent at pretty much every altitude
corn subsidies exist as a relic of the dust bowl when we predominately had small family-owned farms to keep them solvent and feeding america during the depression, they continue because the corn lobby is absolutely monolithic and they want free money
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
bit.ly/2XQM1ke