Do people in Europe eat corn on the cob?!
Do people in Europe eat corn on the cob?
Answers:
Good question. Europeans don't eat as much corn on the cob as in the States. I've seen it grilled in Spain and Italy and sold on a stick. The French package it (2 shucked cobs) in a vacuum plastic transparent pack and sell it to the Italians - and the Italians sell it for about 3bucks.... Just too expensive.
There is corn for ever in Europe. The Italians and Spanish grow corn for feed (as so in the US). The Italians for polenta (corn meal) BUT heck - you just don't find corn in the markets or supermarkets for home eating (of corn on the cob).
Finally - you can easily find canned corn but not creamed corn.
Like the first answer they are not big when it comes to corn products of any kind except they use cornstarch for many purposes.
When working as a chef in Canada, I worked at a small intimate french restaurant, one night the owners family was here from France and we serve turnips cooked with a mustard cream sauce a classical french preparation, after the service, we were told by the owners family that turnip, parsnips, corn and certain other veg were considered farm animal feed and were not impressed we serve them animal food.
What we see as every day or ocassional fun foods here are not seen as something for human consumption in Europe or Asia.