Twins (Matthews) vs Tigers (Paddack): 8/5/25, 5:40pm

[Aggies7]

I’m rioting if I go to a cookout and someone puts peaches and cream on my corn on the cob 

[Tlaker]

1 minute ago, Aggies7 said:

I’m rioting if I go to a cookout and someone puts peaches and cream on my corn on the cob 

It’s a type of sweet corn….. yellow and white kernels! The best sweet corn I’ve ever had and I have lived in sweet corn alley for almost 70 years. It’s a relatively new type but still puts all other sweet corn to shame 

[Aggies7]

1 minute ago, Tlaker said:

It’s a type of sweet corn….. yellow and white kernels! The best sweet corn I’ve ever had and I have lived in sweet corn alley for almost 70 years. It’s a relatively new type but still puts all other sweet corn to shame 

lol I misread that badly 

[Tlaker]

1 minute ago, Aggies7 said:

lol I misread that badly 

Well we all are a bit giddy about the new best Twins team we ever had! It’s understandable 😀

[RpR]

9 minutes ago, Tlaker said:

What about peaches and cream?

I have been growing corn for fifty plus years, and while I generally avoid the super sweet stuff that comes out of current frankenstein garden labs, I have planted and grown probably every open pollinated and 88 percent of the F1 corn out there.

Peaches and Cream is a good variety; but while for some years I grew a Lot of multi-colored corn types, now I am going back greatly to the old school ones I started with.

I have two gardens and genrally plant from six to ten different vatieties of sweet corn.  One that I had found to be an exceptional hybrid was Bodacious but disappeared about 7 years ago.

Country Gentleman and Argent are two of my favorites at this point.    I always put salt and sugar in the water. as that was how I was taught, 

I also love to eat corn , uncooked , straight off of the cob, there variety makes a huge difference, and the new super sweets work real well.

 

[USAFChief]

Sweet corn is yellow. 

The white **** is godawful.

And that peaches and cream half breed abomination is only slightly less awful

Sweet corn IS YELLOW!!!

[RpR]

8 minutes ago, Tlaker said:

It’s a type of sweet corn….. yellow and white kernels! The best sweet corn I’ve ever had and I have lived in sweet corn alley for almost 70 years. It’s a relatively new type but still puts all other sweet corn to shame 

Peaches and Cream hit the market before you were a rug rat.

[Aggies7]

This has really been an amaize-ing conversation 

[Tlaker]

1 minute ago, RpR said:

Peaches and Cream hit the market before you were a rug rat.

No doubt, I guess….. but it had lousy marketing until mom and pops grew it small acres in Iowa and have sold it through the roof in the last decade at road side stands 

[Tlaker]

1 minute ago, Aggies7 said:

This has really been an amaize-ing conversation 

I see what you did there 

[Tlaker]

5 minutes ago, USAFChief said:

Sweet corn is yellow. 

The white **** is godawful.

And that peaches and cream half breed abomination is only slightly less awful

Sweet corn IS YELLOW!!!

Lololo…. boy have you been missing the boat Ensign, er I mean Chief!

You need to come to SWEET corn country…… central Iowa. Grimes in particular 

[Tlaker]

12 minutes ago, RpR said:

I have been growing corn for fifty plus years, and while I generally avoid the super sweet stuff that comes out of current frankenstein garden labs, I have planted and grown probably every open pollinated and 88 percent of the F1 corn out there.

Peaches and Cream is a good variety; but while for some years I grew a Lot of multi-colored corn types, now I am going back greatly to the old school ones I started with.

I have two gardens and genrally plant from six to ten different vatieties of sweet corn.  One that I had found to be an exceptional hybrid was Bodacious but disappeared about 7 years ago.

Country Gentleman and Argent are two of my favorites at this point.    I always put salt and sugar in the water. as that was how I was taught, 

I also love to eat corn , uncooked , straight off of the cob, there variety makes a huge difference, and the new super sweets work real well.

 

This is fantastic info RpR(btw, no offense but maybe change your moniker in this day and age) any way what happened to Bodacious? How did it disappear?

[Vanimal46]

26 minutes ago, Tlaker said:

Peaches and cream sweet corn is the best! Maybe it needs too long of a growing season for you Norsks updere.

Highly recommended with us Iowegians!

Go on? Never heard of that combination but now I’m curious 

[Tlaker]

1 minute ago, Vanimal46 said:

Go on? Never heard of that combination but now I’m curious 

You need to back up through the posts 

[RpR]

2 hours ago, Tlaker said:

This is fantastic info RpR(btw, no offense but maybe change your moniker in this day and age) any way what happened to Bodacious? How did it disappear?

The past twenty years, corn hybridization has gone, wild , literally.  I get seed catalogs where new varieties of sweet seed corn, still just have a laboratory number, no name.  I planted one such F1 variety this year.

With the mergers and extinction of so many old seed companies, some fairly new hybrids have disappeared as money people said they did not make enough money. 

 Now hybrids are just that, you do not plant last years seed for this years crops, cost money , time and space to make new seeds.

AT that:

When I was pre-double-digit young boy, my grand parents both who were farmers (and few farms did not have dairy cows) grew a variety call Trucker Favorite Yellow Corn, it was technically a dent corn, but was sweet enough that picked at the correct stage it was quite edible as sweet corn.  ( It was often used pre-dent stage to feed the cows, and had a nick name -  Cow corn.)

GrandMa or GrandPa would go out to the field , pick a dozen, put a lot of sugar, and some salt in the boiling water and boil it for 15-20 minutes.  It was great with a large dab of butter and more salt.

When GrandPa quit milking,  GrandMa got a job at the Glencoe Green Giant during summer sweet corn processing, she came home with a bag of Green Giant sweet corn at .50 a dozen so no more Truckers Favorite sweet corn suppers.

 

 

 

[Tlaker]

4 minutes ago, RpR said:

The past twenty years, corn hybridization has gone, wild , literally.  I get seed catalogs where new varieties of sweet seed corn, still just have a laboratory number, no name.  I planted one such F1 variety this year.

With the mergers and extinction of so many old seed companies, some fairly new hybrids have disappeared as money people said they did not make enough money. 

 Now hybrids are just that, you do not plant last years seed for this years crops, cost money , time and space to make new seeds.

AT that:

When I was pre-double-digit young boy, my grand parents both who were farmers (and few farms did not have dairy cows) grew a variety call Trucker Favorite Yellow Corn, it was technically a dent corn, but was sweet enough that picked at the correct stage it was quite edible as sweet corn.  ( It was often used pre-dent stage to feed the cows, and had a nick name -  Cow corn.)

Grand Ma or Grand Pa would go out to the field , pick a dozen, put a lot of sugar, and some salt in the boiling water and boil it for 15-20 minutes.  It was great with a large dab of butter and more salt.

When Grand Pa quit milking,  Grand Ma got a job at the Glencoe Green Giant during summer sweet corn processing, she came home with a bag of Green Giant sweet corn at .50 a dozen so no more Truckers Favorite sweet corn suppers.

 

 

 

Wow…. just wow! This is so wonderful information! I was kinda blowing smoke about sweet corn…. but I do have grandparents that farmed and I spent a lot of time on the farm with them and I do remember dent corn being served and it was very good many years ago!

Times have changed obviously….

I also remember driving up from Iowa on US 169 to Twins games in the early’60s and driving past a huge Jolly Green Giant plant… maybe St.Peter or ????

any idea?

[Vanimal46]

4 minutes ago, Tlaker said:

Wow…. just wow! This is so wonderful information! I was kinda blowing smoke about sweet corn…. but I do have grandparents that farmed and I spent a lot of time on the farm with them and I do remember dent corn being served and it was very good many years ago!

Times have changed obviously….

I also remember driving up from Iowa on US 169 to Twins games in the early’60s and driving past a huge Jolly Green Giant plant… maybe St.Peter or ????

any idea?

Still there with the Jolly Green Giant sign intact 

[RpR]

7 minutes ago, Tlaker said:

Wow…. just wow! This is so wonderful information! I was kinda blowing smoke about sweet corn…. but I do have grandparents that farmed and I spent a lot of time on the farm with them and I do remember dent corn being served and it was very good many years ago!

Times have changed obviously….

I also remember driving up from Iowa on US 169 to Twins games in the early’60s and driving past a huge Jolly Green Giant plant… maybe St.Peter or ????

any idea?

Le Sueur, Minn. was of the biggest but when Green Giant was sold, closed down, and destroyed in 2016.

[Tlaker]

1 minute ago, Vanimal46 said:

Still there with the Jolly Green Giant sign intact 

Just great! Looked for it all the way….. when I saw it I knew I was getting so close to the glorious green infield of Met Stadium! Wonderful memories of my Grandpa and Dad and uncles and my older brother 

[Tlaker]

1 minute ago, RpR said:

Le Sueur, Minn. was of the biggest but when Green Giant was sold, closed down, and destroyed in 2016.

LeSeur! Yes we used to laugh about well we made it to LeSeur but hold it to Shakeapee! 

[Mike Sixel]

https://www.seriouseats.com/how-to-boil-corn-8678609

 

[Parfigliano]

https://www.tasteofhome.com/article/why-southerners-cook-corn-on-the-cob-with-milk/#:~:text=Boiling corn on the cob,resulting in salty%2C buttery kernels.

[RpR]

28 minutes ago, Mike Sixel said:

https://www.seriouseats.com/how-to-boil-corn-8678609

 

Very interesting; I have read many versions online and while many are similar, the devil is in the details.

I have watch the TV show Cooks Illustrated comes from and I find many of their recipes are fine, for a 500,000 dollar kitchen, but still worth watching or reading.

The new/er sweet corn do not have to be cooked as long as the old Truckers Favorite  days corn did, but my Mother, for what ever reason liked her raw corn VERY ripe.  Dad  used to say, " Your mother likes corn so ripe  it is not even fit for the pigs."

[RpR]

1 minute ago, Parfigliano said:

https://www.tasteofhome.com/article/why-southerners-cook-corn-on-the-cob-with-milk/#:~:text=Boiling corn on the cob,resulting in salty%2C buttery kernels.

THAT, is different!

[Tlaker]

58 minutes ago, Mike Sixel said:

https://www.seriouseats.com/how-to-boil-corn-8678609

 

Wow! This is great Mike is here… Chief was here, and so many other big shots have been here and will be here…..talking about sweet corn!!

So much more fun than talking about this totally inept baseball team and it’s management!

But we will be back, as we always are, but in the meantime… let’s all get together and talk favorite recipes about everything! Huh?

Lets start with the state fish……. Lutefisk!!

 Shoot, I forgot to ask about Squirrel recipes…..

 please…..

[Fatbat]

7 hours ago, Tlaker said:

Wow…. just wow! This is so wonderful information! I was kinda blowing smoke about sweet corn…. but I do have grandparents that farmed and I spent a lot of time on the farm with them and I do remember dent corn being served and it was very good many years ago!

Times have changed obviously….

I also remember driving up from Iowa on US 169 to Twins games in the early’60s and driving past a huge Jolly Green Giant plant… maybe St.Peter or ????

any idea?

Blue Earth MN. There is a museum there now.  We used to haul cattle to the livestock auction back in the 70’s and would try to get dad to divert his route so we could see the giant. 

[Patzky]

11 hours ago, Blyleven2011 said:

Funderburk is coming in , he had his best outing hisclast ho around ...

I thought maybe we had a chance but now I have my doubts  ...

Not related but related to FBs short appearance.. Griffin Jax came in and threw a one pitch out last night. (Sweeper of course)

[Tlaker]

6 hours ago, Fatbat said:

Blue Earth MN. There is a museum there now.  We used to haul cattle to the livestock auction back in the 70’s and would try to get dad to divert his route so we could see the giant. 

Blue Earth! When we would drive from Iowa to TC to see the Twins, we would always stop at a little cafe in Blue Earth and have breakfast.

This was early to mid ‘60s and this little cafe had the best cinnamon rolls I have ever had! The size of a dinner plate and warm….just out of the oven!

One of my favorite memories of going to see the Twins play at Metropolitan Stadium with my Grandpa, my dad, my uncle and my brother. Special times 

[Bodie]

On 8/5/2025 at 1:57 PM, thelanges5 said:

BoSox DFAd Alcala today. 

Surprise!!!!

[Bodie]

On 8/5/2025 at 4:11 PM, Mike Sixel said:

I'd prefer Julien DH over Jeffers. We know what we have in Jeffers.....(I'm not overly confident in Julien, but he needs to bat against every RHP, at DH). 

He needs to be a Rochester Homker...