Signs Point to Corn

I may think about corn more than your average person, because I love it so. It tastes good in many of its forms, it's beautiful, and can be pretty funny as a caricature with spindly legs and google eyes. I like corn.

Anyhoo, while thinking about corn I remembered that before I'm too old to enjoy it I want to go to the Corn Palace in South Dakota. Maybe I should devise a corn tour of the state?

Here's my greatest hits of corn:

• Wright's Pink Popcorn, depicting children playing on a see-saw of corn
• Hominy
• The local corn tattoo craze
• Tamal in banana leaf, with olive, chicken and egg
• Big old roadside architecture: Minnesota, Iowa, Ohio

While working at a restaurant devoted to Louisiana Gulf cuisine my bosses received a gift of moonshine, which I assume is corn too. Interesting, but not my favorite.


I also like oats, but they're just not funny.