re: #628 ggt
I read cornsilk and thought, at first, it was some new byproduct of corn production the food nazi’s were going to protest.
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After you extract the corn sugar you can polymerize the remaining long-chain sugars, spin them into fiber and make stuff like carpeting or clothing. Thus, “corn silk” - an alternative to wearing caterpillar spit which has been getting good PR for thousands of years.
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