Corn?

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Originally Posted by Rajun Gardener

I forgot about that one. Corn is so confusing, too many choices and how to know if you'll like it. Peaches and Cream is awesome for cream style corn, all it takes is a little blanching for storage. We in La eat corn maque choux and you can't make that with supersweet corn, It has too much sugar.

Corn/maize is one of my favorite vegetables of historic study the other chilies.
And the only one I know of that doesn't have any wild living relative that even comes close to looking like it but types of teosinte/Zea.
Many of which are endangered.
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/25/s...5creature.html
http://www.pnas.org/content/99/9/6080.long

It truly is one of the (if not the) biggest food mysteries known to man.