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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I always peel back a bit to check. I'm picky about The quality of the food i eat and I've come home with too many crappy ears of corn not to. (I don't seem to have the touch for just "feeling" bad spots.) I don't generally husk it in the store unless there's a bin and I'm headed straight home to cook it.

For the PP who made the Skittles analogy, sorry but it's not the same at all. Skittles are made in a factory and designed and checked specifically so every bag comes out the same. A "bad" bag would be very very rare. Not so for corn at all.[/quote]

I cut open the tomatoes to make sure I get one that's not too grainy.  Sometimes it takes 5-6 before I find a good one.  This is not rude in any way, shape, or form.[/quote]

Again, not applicable.  [b]You can examine a tomato pretty well by just feeling and looking at it, and you have a pretty good idea of what you're going to get.[/b]  With corn you can't even see it if it's in the husk.  You run a decent chance of coming home with a bunch of crappy corn.  Buying an extra 1-2 ears isn't necessarily enough.  Also, unlike a tomato, peeling back a small edge of the corn does not make it unusable.  (And anyway, if it looks OK, you buy it.)

Do you have any more analogies to share?  [/quote]

As I and countless other posters here have said, you can examine an ear of corn pretty well by feeling it through the husk as well.  Now, you may not be competent enough to do so, but maybe I'm too incompetent to examine a tomato just by looking at it from the outside.[/quote]

Well I guess you guys are just going to have to put up with my "rudeness" because I'm certainly not going to stop peeling.  In fact I'm going to do so this afternoon.  I love corn so much.  Hate away.  [/quote]

Maybe I'll see you there.  I'll be the one hacking away at the tomatoes, trying to figure out which one's extra juicy!  If the manager comes by and tells you to stop being a rude pain in the ass, I'll be the first one to stick up for you![/quote]

I crack eggs to see if they are fresh sometimes it takes about 8 or 9 before I find a good one.  I also open bottles of wine to make sure it is good.  One time it took 7 before I found one that I liked.  Sometimes my wife licks all the ice cream to see which is good.[/quote]

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