Common Corn Smut

Wisconsin Horticulture Division of Extension ^ | 02/29/2024 Revised | Tianna Jordan*, UW-Madison Plant Pathology

[kawhill]

What is common corn smut? Common corn smut is a fungal disease that affects field, pop, and sweet corn, as well as the corn relative teosinte (Zea mexicana).

[DBrow]

There are lots of good recipes for corn smut!

[bigbob]

Smut is bad, mkay...?

[DBrow]

You can buy it canned, in glass, and frozen. Look up huitlacoche recipes.

[TigersEye]

Look at it. Look at the smut!

[TigersEye]

Apparently it has a great nutritional profile.

Foraging Corn Smut (Huitlacoche) & How to Cook It

[ConservativeMind]

We have eaten it in quesadillas.

What we had tasted really good.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Bookmark

[bakeneko]

I thought this was “Common Core Smut”, some sort of communique from the National Educators Association.

[dayglored]

Tom Lehrer - "Smut" (video 1967)

[lee martell]

“I know it, when I see it!!” said the Judge.

[dayglored]

Thanks for posting the “Foraging...” link. Fascinating article!!

[TigersEye]

Thank you! I agree. I’m going to have to find some Huitlacoche and try it out.

[fidelis]

[Responsibility2nd]

There are lots of good recipes for corn smut!

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www.cornsmut.com

[SpaceBar]

Are we being psychologically softened-up for the coming wave of weaponized chicom pathogens targeting our cereal crops?

[tumblindice]

A smutty sino-limerick:
There once was a woman from China
Who kept corn in
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[Bob434]

Hardcore XXX corn smut

[Qwapisking]

So if the summer camp counselor tells you your kids will be introduced to smut during the nature walks should we be worried?

[I-ambush]

A Tennessee lass from Farragut
Asked me to look at her corn smut
When once in the field
I thought she would yield
But she said, “It’s a fungus, you wingnut!”