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Customer: Oh, thank you. I thought I’d have to tip you because you’re so cute.
The repartee goes with the deal. Customer comments seldom go unrewarded from a smiling Gil, an unlit cigar hanging from his lips. One corn buyer remembers finding canada goose jacket outlet a worm on a cob.
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Gil Miron, 74, sells other canada goose outlet store uk vegetables raised on his land near Scandia, north of the Twin Cities. But at the peak of summer, customers rush his stand to buy a sweet corn variety called Sweetie.
“They told me it would be lower in starches and more creamy, and it would keep better,” Miron said.
Cradling a brown paper bag stuffed with a dozen, a mom and her daughter elbow their way out of the sweet corn melee.
“Once you’ve tried it, you just don’t try anybody else’s,” the mother says.
Her daughter adds, “It’s very good, it’s really sweet.”
Summer’s bounty fills the farmers’ market table tops. Carrots, beets, beans spill out of boxes into shopping bags. The wealth even brightens the face of dour Nordic types. But they recover and true to character see only the grey lining of summer’s silver clouds.
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By contrast Minnesota is like Miami to Kerio and Svetlana, orginally from Russia.
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Maybe that’s the next genetic breakthrough for sweetcorn plants with leaves as big as rooftops and anti freeze in the stalk for growth in the canada goose coats low light and cold of February. Scientists have already canada goose coaxed genes to bring forth 16, 18 and 20 rows of kernals on an ear, four to a plant. Varieties like Collassal, Jumpstart, Sweetheart, Milk and Honey produce crisp, luscious kernals. Others named Blizzard and Immaculata produce nearly pure white kernals. Dave Davis buy canada goose jacket cheap says to look for corn diversity soon as red, blue and brown kernals harken back to the plant’s Indian corn heritage. What’s next, sweet corn with flavors, and maybe a built in piece of dental floss?
“I wouldn’t say no,” Davis says. “It’s a very dangerous thing to say today that you can’t do it in biology.”
A Mayan creation story says all life springs from corn. The evidence is everywhere eight corn festivals in Minnesota alone, the Corn Palace in South Dakota, and of course, in Nebraska Cornhusker country the mythology is played out on the gridiron.
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