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Gardening Which grew and tasted 19 different varieties of sweetcorn.
Their favourites were Swift, Lark, Mirai bi colour and mirai 003Y. Their tasting panel favourites were all tendersweet types.

I still prefer Ovation...  :-\

Applause is my favourite - Lark is pretty good too.

Tricia

I like the old corns with their old original corny taste but I also like the newer ones too..too many to mention by name, if it is going on the barbie  the old ones are good, straight from the plant uncooked the tendersweets are wonderful and 3 minutes in a microwave still with it's coat on most of them do well..it depends on what you plan to do with it.

Different tastes fro differnt jobs.

XX Jeannine

silver queen : white
Golden Bantam: yellow
nothing else comes close

Quote from: plainleaf on July 02, 2011, 00:54:23
silver queen : white
Golden Bantam: yellow
nothing else comes close

I've never tried silver queen - how is it different (apart from colour - or lack of it)?

Since Plainleaf has the good taste to choose an old gold, I assume it doesn't taste like a mouthful of sugar?

Tender- and super-sweets are brilliant for farmers and the poor sods who have no other source of sweetcorn - but are utterly pointless for us home growers (yes, I do have a freezer but corncobs are a very poor use of precious space).

Sadly, the world seems to be full of people who actually believe advertising ::) - to the point where they don't even think to test the alternative.

Hard to imagine - but you have to believe the evidence in the previous posts...

Cheers.

vinlander before Golden Bantam there was no yellow sweet corn. yellow corn was use as animal feed only.

Quote from: realfood on June 30, 2011, 19:56:02
. Their tasting panel favourites were all tendersweet types.

Tendersweet are my most productive of my two but as long as they produce the goods i have no complaints.  (Ain't a fussy eater 8))