Corn on the cob (known regionally as `pole corn`, `cornstick`, `sweet pole`, `butter-pop` or `long maize`) is a culinary term used for a cooked ear of freshly picked maize from a cultivar of sweet corn. Sweet corn is the only variety of maize eaten directly off the cob. The ear is picked while the endosperm is in the `milk stage` so th... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_on_the_cob
(from the article `vegetable processing`) ...and desilked. Probably more than any other vegetable, sweet corn loses its quality rapidly after harvest. Frozen corn maintains high quality by ... Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/c/142