Corny Foods - by Curt Tomasevicz

As many people celebrate this holiday season, food becomes the focus of a lot of social gatherings. Thanksgiving is, of course, centered around the meal as well as Christmas dinner. But there are also Christmas parties that include snacks and finger foods. This time of year people’s ovens are busy baking pies, cakes, and cookies.

Since I started working with the Nebraska Corn Board, a lot of my bobsled teammates ask me how much I know about corn. So, since this is the season for food, in Forrest Gump shrimping style, here is my corny list of corn-related foods…

1. Sweet corn
   
   
2. Creamed corn
3. Yellow corn
4. White corn
5. Corn bread
6. Candy corn (still counts)
   
   
7. Corn on the cob
8. Field corn
9. Seed corn
10. Acorn (a food, maybe not corn related)
11. Grilled corn
12. Boiled corn
13. Corn Flakes
14. Corn Pops
15. Indian corn
16. Corn sugar
17. Corn syrup
18. Corn meal
19. Popcorn
20. Corn casserole
21. Corn dogs
22. Cornish Hen (not sure how corn relates)
    
    
23. Corn oil
24. Corn starch
25. Corn chips
26. Corn beef
27. Carmel corn
28. Peppercorn (again, not a corn)
29. Corn chowder
30. Can o’ corn (baseball term for easy pop fly)