Daily Highlight: The Corn Debate

Which state has the best corn? We dive into a surprisingly passionate debate that has everyone defending their hometown harvest.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The corn arguments start.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
It's just very funny, like that doesn't happen in my world.
I like what's going on in yours. The corn argument.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
It is the corn argument. What is the argument? Okay?

Speaker 3 (00:14):
I live in Jersey, yeah, and I get my corn there,
and the corn in Jersey is fabulous.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
As I said that, someone listening going, no, it's not
it's better here in Iowa.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
Oh really okay.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
And then Lee Schrager now out of here on Long Island,
that way got the best corn.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Hey, you know what, Scotty, I'll go to you, Scotty.
Oh he went to the bathroom. He's never around. I
need him, Scott right way.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
I need to have a corn argument with him and
corn because he's from Long Island, so he's familiar with
the Long Island corn. But now he you know, he's
on the farm. He's on the farm in New Jersey.
Come here, Scotty, Scotty, we're talking about the corn argument. Yes,
you grew up on Long Island, which has spectacular corn,
Yes we do. But now you're in New Jersey, which
has fabulous corn.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
Great corn. I know.

Speaker 4 (00:58):
So I'm gonna always be a Long Island corn guy.
By color.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
Yeap, we buy colored corn in New Jersey, you know, but.

Speaker 4 (01:07):
As sweeter on Long Island.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
It is the water water. Here's scary, is it? Though?
Jersey corn is the sweetest I've ever tasted.

Speaker 4 (01:18):
We could have a corn off.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yes, to be fair, it depends on what farm you
get it from. It depends on the crop that year.
It changes.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Okay, yeah, but you're a Jersey girl.

Speaker 5 (01:30):
Damn to be honest, I kind of I just eat
corn wherever I go.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
I just love corn.

Speaker 5 (01:36):
I was in England in Leads and they had this
little corn like thing and it was delicious.

Speaker 6 (01:41):
You didn't, you don't. You don't know corn at dinner
or Saturday night, I had three ears. I had three
full ears of corn, and I cleaned. I clean Megan's off.
She you know what, people that don't have to eat
corn bother me, Like the corn has to cobs got
to be completely clean.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Yeah, you gotta clean it.

Speaker 4 (01:59):
I'll clean cobs.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
I know you remember that weekend about you Froggy. You're
in Florida. You got a good Florida corn. We do.
But I'm one of those people that cuts the corn off.
The cob.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
That's okay, gets in my teeth too much. Alex is
the same way, and that's okay. I love just saut
it with butter, salt and pepper. That's all you needs.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
It's good. I like the bicolor as well too.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
I hear people text again Connecticut corns the best, Oh,
get out of here. No George's corns the best?

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Oh please?

Speaker 2 (02:31):
It looks like so. I Actually I just googled this
as you're talking about it, and it says that is
the debate. Is it the corn belts Iowa and Illinois
or is it New Jersey. Apparently Sandy Loan has produced
the top tier silver Queen corn. Who Sandy Sandy Loan?

Speaker 6 (02:48):
I think that's that's referring to the soil, not a woman.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Iowa.

Speaker 4 (02:52):
Iowa corn is great too. I will say that.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
I mean in the world, we have the best in
the world. We're the king of corn the US.

Speaker 4 (02:59):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Look at that? Yeah, Daniel in England? Do you think
everything's better in England?

Speaker 6 (03:04):
To me?

Speaker 1 (03:04):
I'll tell you why.

Speaker 5 (03:05):
They have these little kiosks in certain.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
Markets corn kiosks.

Speaker 5 (03:09):
Oh, yes, And you can get like a little corn
cup and it has like Mexican corn or what in
different seasonings.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
And sounds amazing. It was good. You don't know anything.

Speaker 4 (03:20):
I'm still desperately trying to find the corn ice cream.
I mean I missed it in ship Bottom. They had
it the day before. Then it was gone. You didn't
You missed it and you did what? It was a
long of a child in New Jersey. And there's a
place called ship Bottom, ship Bottom, ship Bottom.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
But you said you did something. Anyway, I might skip that.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
Sadi and I back when we had dated, we used
to go on the bleaker street in the village.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
There was a place called Cone Cones had the best
corn ice cream. What happened?

Speaker 4 (03:50):
I know?

Speaker 1 (03:50):
They closed it down? You know why?

Speaker 3 (03:51):
Because we stopped dating. St up right, we broke up.
I remember, we broke up keeping them in business. Iowa
has great corn too, though they do.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
We need a blind taste. We need to have a competition,
blind taste test it.

Speaker 3 (04:06):
I decide once a yeah, But you can't why because
because the corn taste different one day than another.

Speaker 5 (04:13):
Is white corn sweeter than the yellow corn?

Speaker 1 (04:16):
It just depends. It can be. We like our bicolor.
What something can we we have?

Speaker 3 (04:22):
We have lots of stuff in New Jersey. We've got
We've got those those oil oil refineries. Yes, a lot
of garbage we do.

Speaker 4 (04:30):
I always got pork. There's more pigs than people in Iowa,
so let them have the pork we get the corn.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
Does it work that way?

Speaker 2 (04:36):
Ohio would fight you for this too.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
You know, we we grow corn on my farm, but
it's feed corn.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yeah. Well, I accidentally tasted it once. I'm like, what
the hell does that? It tastes different.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
It's yeah, it's very I think cattle love it. Yeah, anyway,
the corn argument. I told you there's a corn argument.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
What if we did this over a sustained period of time,
because it's different every day the corn. So for a
month or just a summer of corn every day we
do a blind taste.

Speaker 3 (05:06):
Well, I eat corn every day. Yes, what's scary?

Speaker 1 (05:13):
I really like cone? What do you like about corn?

Speaker 6 (05:15):
Ever?

Speaker 4 (05:16):
Sence?

Speaker 1 (05:17):
I was sold that cone is real.

Speaker 4 (05:19):
It tasted good.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
I love conee.

Speaker 5 (05:24):
I hope you really have a conetastic day, a corntastic day.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
It's cone. It's awesome. She's right. I like cone? All right? Yeah,
I eat corn every day. You know what I did
over the weekend.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
I did some pistosis ravioli and I did like a
little butter sage sauce with corn and zucchini chopped up,
especially twice. Yeah, thank you zucchini from my garden. So
I didn't get the diarrhea because I knew where. I
know where it came from.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
It's good.