Unusual foods -
Corn Smut
Corn smut is a fungal disease that sometimes affects corn ears. Usually, farmers in the United States treat smut like an undesirable disease and make every effort to eradicate it.
In Mexico, however, the smut is prized and farmers who find their crops infected with it are happy because they know they can sell their crop for a higher price.
Ustilago maydis is the Latin name for the smut that causes the corn kernels to grow large and distorted. In the maturation process the kernels become filled with the characteristic dark, powdery spores of the fungus.
Smut corn has been prized since the Inca and Aztec times, but only recently has the taste grown significantly in the United States; programs that allow farmers to cultivate smut corn are just starting across the country. “It tastes a little like mushrooms, and it’s great in scrambled eggs,” swear recent American devotees.
Corn Smut
Corn smut is a fungal disease that sometimes affects corn ears. Usually, farmers in the United States treat smut like an undesirable disease and make every effort to eradicate it.<<<
And soon we do not have corn for cornmeal and animal feed.
Sorry, smut is something you burn to keep it from spreading.
LOL, but then you knew I wouldn’t like it.