Reply To: Why is corn on the cob not kosher???

Farmers grow three types of corn (I learned this on a trip to a pick your own farm a few summers ago). Flint, sweet and dent, also called field. As Avram said, sweet corn is what you buy at the local grocery to eat off the cob. Flint corn is quite hard and is sold as popping corn and is used as animal feed. Field corn is used to make masa dough (think tortillas) and is also animal feed.