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Beemer said:
Hey @triaddukefan after reading this thread I think my fellow Yankees have pretty much nailed down the best New England foods :)

I myself am very partial to good seafood, for me there is nothing like fresh boiled lobster, steamed clams & mussels. I also love haddock & fluke, usually baked. No sauces, juices or butter. Just give me the fish and I'm happy.

And yes, butter & sugar corn on the cob cannot be beat. Again, no salt & no butter for me. I'm a purist that way.
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Ah.. you didn't take the bait :rolleyes:

But anyway.. sugar on corn on the cob?? :confused::confused::eek::eek::eek:
 
triaddukefan said:
Ah.. you didn't take the bait :rolleyes:

But anyway.. sugar on corn on the cob?? :confused::confused::eek::eek::eek:
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She meant no sugar in the cooking water. Butter & sugar is a type of corn on the cob, the name coming from the pale yellow and dark yellow kernals. When really fresh, the corn is sweet enough without adding sugar to the water.

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Beemer said:
What bait?? I'm a pretty literal person so....????
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don't worry Beemer we'll take out those canes, hopefully there won't be as many empty seats as game 1 in Carolina as we travel well. If it's any consolation I think bruins woulda smoked rangers.
 
Bigboote said:
I am totally with you on butter & sugar corn. There’s nothing like it in Maryland.

As a resident of Maryland, I have to call BS on crab cakes being a New England thing. Yes, they exist in NE, but down here they’re a way of life. Not my cuppa. The list should have just stopped at lobster rolls and clam cakes in the same vein.
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I spent lots of time in the Baltimore/ Meade/DC area. Born and bred Connecticut nut, ask meg. I loved the bushel baskets of crabs cooked dumped on my table and the Annapolis fish houses were great. But MD isn't just the coast--it goes way past the pan handle with lots of farmers selling and growing eating corn.
In Ellington going out of town west were some of the finest white/gold corn God has made. That's Ellington Ct. 13 for a dollar, obviously, that wasn't last fall.
 
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jchusky said:
don't worry Beemer we'll take out those canes, hopefully there won't be as many empty seats as game 1 in Carolina as we travel well. If it's any consolation I think bruins woulda smoked rangers.
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Duh I should have looked more closely at @triaddukefan 's avatar! I feel like an idiot now. But hey, at least I'm not a fan of those jerks! ;)

You've got a good team there though I think you've ridden Sheshterkin a little harder than you should have. Good luck and thanks for beating those damn penguins!
 
overheard while settin on a porch in Woodstock, Connecticut, some years back:
'is that ur cornfield over there?'
'yep.'
'mind if i go over and grab an ear to eat?'
''have at it.'
walks aboot a couple hundred yards over, grabs a big ear after careful selection, takes a bite or three, and spits it out.
'what did i just eat? u said it was corn. that doesn't taste like any corn that i ever et.'

'i didn't say it was sweet corn.'
lesson to self. cow corn is not sweet corn.
and iffn ur putting sugar on an ear of sweet corn, ur doing this all wrong.
it's called 'sweet corn' for a reason. and iffn ur putting sugar on sweet corn and u have one of those zippy sugar monitoring devices attached to ur body, ur really doing it wrong. a persons taste for sugar is one of the easiest habits to change. takes aboot a week or two of discipline, and then, magically, ur done with putting sugar in ur coffee.
 
ClifSpliffy said:
overheard while settin on a porch in Woodstock, Connecticut, some years back:
'is that ur cornfield over there?'
'yep.'
'mind if i go over and grab an ear to eat?'
''have at it.'
walks aboot a couple hundred yards over, grabs a big ear after careful selection, takes a bite or three, and spits it out.
'what did i just eat? u said it was corn. that doesn't taste like any corn that i ever et.'

'i didn't say it was sweet corn.'
lesson to self. cow corn is not sweet corn.
and iffn ur putting sugar on an ear of sweet corn, ur doing this all wrong.
it's called 'sweet corn' for a reason. and iffn ur putting sugar on sweet corn and u have one of those zippy sugar monitoring devices attached to ur body, ur really doing it wrong. a persons taste for sugar is one of the easiest habits to change. takes aboot a week or two of discipline, and then, magically, ur done with putting sugar in ur coffee.
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The sugar withdrawals were the worst, but 2 weeks sounds about right.
 
Beemer said:
Hey @triaddukefan after reading this thread I think my fellow Yankees have pretty much nailed down the best New England foods :)

I myself am very partial to good seafood, for me there is nothing like fresh boiled lobster, steamed clams & mussels. I also love haddock & fluke, usually baked. No sauces, juices or butter. Just give me the fish and I'm happy.

And yes, butter & sugar corn on the cob cannot be beat. Again, no salt & no butter for me. I'm a purist that way.
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I generally don’t like fish, but tautog is amazing if you can get it
 
I had totally forgotten about Indian Pudding. S.S. Pierce sold it in a can. It was wonderful served hot/warm with vanilla ice cream.
 
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