{"id":2613,"date":"2015-01-27T04:45:04","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T04:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/52sundaydinners.com\/recipes\/?p=2613"},"modified":"2015-01-27T05:03:46","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T05:03:46","slug":"minute-corn-carcinogen-on-the-cob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/52sundaydinners.com\/recipes\/minute-corn-carcinogen-on-the-cob\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Minute Corn&#8221; Carcinogen on the Cob"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/52sundaydinners.com\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_8609.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2614\" title=\"IMG_8609\" src=\"http:\/\/52sundaydinners.com\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_8609-580x435.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"http:\/\/52sundaydinners.com\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_8609-580x435.jpg 580w, http:\/\/52sundaydinners.com\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_8609-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our &#8220;Stupid Food&#8221; for this month is a vacuum packed pair of perfectly formed ears of<strong> Corn on the Cob<\/strong>.\u00a0 It was picked last year in Thailand, vacuum packed in plastic, shipped across the ocean, shipped to a warehouse somewhere in the US and then delivered to an unrefrigerated shelf in your local grocery store.\u00a0 All for only about a two bucks for a perfect pair.\u00a0 Hey people, don&#8217;t buy this stuff and I&#8217;ll bet they quit manufacturing it.\u00a0 I just love that the lower-left corner says &#8220;All Natural.&#8221;\u00a0 The ingredients are listed as &#8220;Sweet Corn and Water.&#8221; Hmmm. No preservatives.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t imagine that you could blanch or cook two ears of corn, vacuum pack them for a year or two without preservatives and expect them to be edible.\u00a0 Time will tell if this one survives.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hey people, when corn is in season in the USA, buy FRESH CORN.\u00a0 It is worth the little effort it takes to clean and cook it.\u00a0 When it is not in season, hit the freezer isle and pray for an early harvest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/52sundaydinners.com\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_8610.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2615\" title=\"IMG_8610\" src=\"http:\/\/52sundaydinners.com\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_8610-580x435.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"http:\/\/52sundaydinners.com\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_8610-580x435.jpg 580w, http:\/\/52sundaydinners.com\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_8610-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a>This shout-out goes to the good people of Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska and Minnesota.\u00a0 When the package of corn says &#8220;Product of Thailand&#8221; its a long way from home, and it doesn&#8217;t have to be.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/52sundaydinners.com\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Thailand.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2616\" title=\"Thailand\" src=\"http:\/\/52sundaydinners.com\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Thailand-580x435.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"http:\/\/52sundaydinners.com\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Thailand-580x435.jpg 580w, http:\/\/52sundaydinners.com\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Thailand-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our &#8220;Stupid Food&#8221; for this month is a vacuum packed pair of perfectly formed ears of Corn on the Cob.\u00a0 It was picked last year in Thailand, vacuum packed in plastic, shipped across the ocean, shipped to a warehouse somewhere in the US and then delivered to an unrefrigerated shelf in your local grocery store.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stupid-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/52sundaydinners.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/52sundaydinners.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/52sundaydinners.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/52sundaydinners.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/52sundaydinners.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2613"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/52sundaydinners.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2619,"href":"http:\/\/52sundaydinners.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions\/2619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/52sundaydinners.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/52sundaydinners.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/52sundaydinners.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/52sundaydinners.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}