Does anyone here call regular milk "sweet milk"?

That's crazy-talk.

Does anyone here call regular milk "sweet milk"?

No! But my tia who was born in Mississippi but spent most of her life in the Rio Grande Valley in TX did. I guess the rest of her family did too but her use of it stuck with me because it was in her cheese sauce recipe (that we now call Cheese Devil and have at almost every family event).

Sweet milk to distinguish from butter or sour milk!

I call it sweet corn, as does everyone in upstate NY, I think. I assume to distinguish it from cow corn, with the darker tassles.

"Sweet corn" must be used to distinguish it from "field corn." Of course, now there's "supersweet corn," which is what I'm shopping for tomorrow, specifically, the Mirai variety, which is supposedly so good that you can eat it raw. (They've been raving about it on WGN radio for a few years now, so I figure I'll check it out and see how good it is.)

Fall raspberries are now available, as are the last of the peaches, so I'm going to pick some of those up at the market out in Harvard as well. They only have one apple available right now, though they are picking two others tomorrow but they won't be available until Friday. It's an hour-plus drive there, so I'm not going to head back there until more apples are available, most likely in October.

According to Alton Brown, sweet corn begins converting its sugar to starch as soon as it's picked, so fresh-picked corn is the way to go, the fresher, the better.

The repairman for the washer is currently on the phone with the moving coordinator people, trying to decide whether the noise (that didn't start until the washer was shipped cross-country) is a result of the move, and consequently, whether the movers will pay for it.

Today has been a stressful day. I'm almost looking forward to my 5:15AM flight tomorrow.

The doctor told my father who discussed it with us.

Ah. They don't do that anymore, do they?

More corn trivia: Did you know that you can tell if a field of corn is too dry just by looking at it as you drive by? When corn experiences a shortage of water, the leaves curl up to reduce evaporation of the water in the leaves. When that happens, you can mostly only see the bottom of leaves, which are lighter in color than the tops of the leaves you normally see.

My brain is just full of farmer-trivia....

According to Alton Brown, sweet corn begins converting its sugar to starch as soon as it's picked, so fresh-picked corn is the way to go, the fresher, the better.

When I was little, my Dad would only go to pick the corn once my Mom had started boiling the water.

We used to have a garden back in Pennsylvania where we grew corn, so it would go from 100 yards from the back door to the pot. And it never tasted sweet to me, while everyone around me was going, "mmm, so sweet, it's delicious." It was just acidic and bitter.

I still think you all are participating in a huge conspiracy to hide the fact that fresh corn tastes like pants and none of you want to admit that you got taken in when your parents said, "Try this, it's sweet!"