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A cornjerker is a laborer who harvested crops in times before modern machinery, when sweet corn was pulled or jerked from the stalk. The leaves were shucked off and the golden ears were thrown in a wooden wagon pulled by a team of mules. This was called "cornjerking".
Shuckin' and Jivin': Folklore from Contemporary Black Americans is a 1981 book by Daryl Cumber Dance. [11] [12] "Mr. Shuck ‘n’ Jive" is a song written by Jimmy Webb for Art Garfunkel's 1977 album Watermark. The lyrics refer to an old friend telling far-fetched stories of past glory and their current diminished state.
"I shuck the corn over the bag for the husks, so any silks or pieces of husk fall right into that trash bag. The process is always a little bit messy, but if you have the bags ready and shuck over ...
Corn on the cob is a culinary term for a cooked ear of sweet corn eaten directly off the cob. [1] The ear is picked while the endosperm is in the "milk stage" so that the kernels are still tender. Ears of corn are steamed, boiled, or grilled usually without their green husks, or roasted with them.
Shucking corn can be a big hassle for some, but not for this pup! As Dad holds the ear of the corn, he pulls the husk leaf off of the corn. Farm dog is an expert at shucking corn
Leave messy shucking behind with this microwave corn hack.
"Jimmy Crack Corn" or "Blue-Tail Fly" is an American song which first became popular during the rise of blackface minstrelsy in the 1840s through performances by the Virginia Minstrels. It regained currency as a folk song in the 1940s at the beginning of the American folk music revival and has since become a popular children's song.
Corn, however, was a very common subject of work songs on a typical plantation. Because the crop was the main component of most Africans' diet, [citation needed] they would often sing about it regardless of whether it was being harvested. Often, communities in the south would hold "corn-shucking jubilees," during which an entire community of ...