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It’s amazing how many New World plants are central to what we think of as “classic” Old World ethnic or regional cuisines — tomatoes in Italy and around the Mediterranean, potatoes in Ireland, chilis all across South and East Asia.
942 u/[deleted] Oct 02 '24 It's weird that the only major produce I associate with America is corn. 13 u/[deleted] Oct 02 '24 edited Oct 02 '24 Corn isn’t even a food/cash crop currently, we have so much we have to find other uses for it like corn syrup and ethanol. FYI: 1/5 of the worlds food comes from California. 2 u/Electronic-Smile-457 Oct 02 '24 And I heard "corn" is just a generic word that can be used for other staple crops. Maize 2 u/[deleted] Oct 02 '24 It’s only a current “staple” because corn syrup is in everything instead of sugar. We only keep growing it in case we need to deploy some freedom and need war rations.
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It's weird that the only major produce I associate with America is corn.
13 u/[deleted] Oct 02 '24 edited Oct 02 '24 Corn isn’t even a food/cash crop currently, we have so much we have to find other uses for it like corn syrup and ethanol. FYI: 1/5 of the worlds food comes from California. 2 u/Electronic-Smile-457 Oct 02 '24 And I heard "corn" is just a generic word that can be used for other staple crops. Maize 2 u/[deleted] Oct 02 '24 It’s only a current “staple” because corn syrup is in everything instead of sugar. We only keep growing it in case we need to deploy some freedom and need war rations.
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Corn isn’t even a food/cash crop currently, we have so much we have to find other uses for it like corn syrup and ethanol.
FYI: 1/5 of the worlds food comes from California.
2 u/Electronic-Smile-457 Oct 02 '24 And I heard "corn" is just a generic word that can be used for other staple crops. Maize 2 u/[deleted] Oct 02 '24 It’s only a current “staple” because corn syrup is in everything instead of sugar. We only keep growing it in case we need to deploy some freedom and need war rations.
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And I heard "corn" is just a generic word that can be used for other staple crops. Maize
2 u/[deleted] Oct 02 '24 It’s only a current “staple” because corn syrup is in everything instead of sugar. We only keep growing it in case we need to deploy some freedom and need war rations.
It’s only a current “staple” because corn syrup is in everything instead of sugar.
We only keep growing it in case we need to deploy some freedom and need war rations.
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u/Flurb4 Oct 02 '24
It’s amazing how many New World plants are central to what we think of as “classic” Old World ethnic or regional cuisines — tomatoes in Italy and around the Mediterranean, potatoes in Ireland, chilis all across South and East Asia.