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- From: narxtc@casc.math.uh.edu (Noah Ramon)
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- Subject: Re: Culinary Peculiarities
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 19:04:59 GMT
- Organization: UH Dept of Math
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- In article <1k64l4INN6eb@gap.caltech.edu> lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
- >
- >Don't forget blue corn. Real popular with the yuppies these days. I guess
- >they've never encountered the stuff on the stalk. You see, maize is
- >susceptible to a really disgusting fungus known as smut. Used to be, when you
- >found a cornstalk infected with smut, you burned that part of the field. Now
- >you leave it alone, hoping it'll infect the rest of the crop, since smutty corn
- >sells at several times the price of the healthy stuff.
-
- I can't go in a Whole Foods Market (a local helth/yuppie supermarket) without
- seeing those chips, but I wil say that (A) I don't mind them, (B) I don't
- know how dangerous they are (although I assume the FDA has checked into the
- matter), and (C) I can't taste any difference between them and regular corn
- tortilla chips.
-
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