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"Winter corn"? (Long shot!)
Dec. 21st, 2012 08:17 amOne of the things I love about RPing is when I learn new things through it. I get to research things I usually would have no reason to! Thistle is a farmer now, and ICly the farm he works on just finished harvesting carrots, so I needed a new crop for them to plant. "Winter corn" seemed the logical thing, so I went with that.
Then I visited google to learn all I could about it...
Apparently there's no such thing as "winter corn". I swear I've heard the term used all my life, but google tells me corn doesn't grow in the winter in this part of the world (it can't handle frost at all). So where did I pick up the term "winter corn"?
Pre-googling I had thought that winter corn was a type of corn more used for animal feed than for people, if that helps.
Has anyone else heard of it? I wonder if I picked it up in some fiction book and it stuck in my head as real...
(This isn't an issue for the RP; since it's a fictional land, corn growing in winter can exist just fine. It's just odd because I thought "winter corn" was as much of a real thing as dogs and schools and such. It's strange as heck to find out there's really no such thing. HOW DID IT GET INTO MY BRAIN?!)
Then I visited google to learn all I could about it...
Apparently there's no such thing as "winter corn". I swear I've heard the term used all my life, but google tells me corn doesn't grow in the winter in this part of the world (it can't handle frost at all). So where did I pick up the term "winter corn"?
Pre-googling I had thought that winter corn was a type of corn more used for animal feed than for people, if that helps.
Has anyone else heard of it? I wonder if I picked it up in some fiction book and it stuck in my head as real...
(This isn't an issue for the RP; since it's a fictional land, corn growing in winter can exist just fine. It's just odd because I thought "winter corn" was as much of a real thing as dogs and schools and such. It's strange as heck to find out there's really no such thing. HOW DID IT GET INTO MY BRAIN?!)
