[Pontiac]

A lot of people eat raw corn kernels, usually a bunch of ‘em, in fact. They are edible.

Young immature corn, yes could reasonably be eaten raw. After corn reaches maturity it hardens and becomes difficult to bite off the cob.

I have never known anyone to do it routinely. The only instances I have ever heard of it being done is stories my mother told me of hobos during the depression stealing corn out of her parent’s fields and eating it as they walked the train tracks next to their fields.

A few older farm folk are the only people I know that have ever said that they have eaten raw corn. And they told me you have to catch the corn at just the right time to make it palatable.

Of course modern hybridized sweet corn probably has a longer ‘sweet spot’ for eating it raw. It would be interesting to know if NORKs have stolen many of our hybridized grain seeds.

The CIA should grab those corn seeds and do DNA test on then to see if they are Monsanto or ADM corn hybrids.

[LouieFisk]

I think the “eat raw everything” caveman diet gang would have it that raw. I believe it’s also a thing among some health huts.

There’s also this, a short clip from the 1983 movie “War Games”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btZi6EiIXbY

[American in Israel]

I eat raw corn on the cob all the time, it is my favorite way to eat corn. Pretty tasty.

[Dr. Sivana]

The CIA should grab those corn seeds and do DNA test on then to see if they are Monsanto or ADM corn hybrids.

Great idea! If the NORKS are illegally using Monsanto seeds the country will be overrun with lawyers and blizzards of legal documents in no time.

[piasa]

Being from Illinois we ate raw corn all the time but yes, there is a prime window for it- after the silks turn brown and before the husks begin to from green turn yellow... you open it and jam a thumbnail into the kernels to see if they still drip milky juice.

Indians thought it such a big deal that they held the Green Corn Ceremony in the season.

So we planted it two weeks apart to keep it coming...

[super7man]

stories my mother told me of hobos during the depression stealing corn

Not to be picky, but hobos were migrant workers who lived by a pretty high standard of ethics, as opposed to tramps. As a kid, I used to visit the hobo camps in Redding CA. My cousins and I would talk to them around the campfire about where they had been, where they were going and what they did. They seemed to appreciate the conversation and after about an hour, we would ask them for money to do downtown and play pool. They always gave us some money.

I do not know if hobos exist today.