Mutant Sweetcorn ???

I shall have my first corn on the cob this year for dinner tonight ... compliments of my friend who grows veggies and I help eat them!

However, on husking the one a while ago, I discovered not one but two, yes, TWO ears of corn in the husk ... is this where baby sweetcorn comes from ????????? :rolleyes:

 

Possibly LOL. :D

I see it didn't get pollenated.

 

Pray tell pete, how do you (note I don't say "we") know it didn't get pollinated?

Is it because it's white and not yellow? Aren't the little Chinese teeney weeney corns whitish? I have to know the answers to these important questions because my friend will want to know these answers. How will he know a "girl" corn from a "boy" corn? Will he need a paintbrush or will a feather boa suffice? :rolleyes: He knows less about these things than me ... so you can just imagine ...

By the way, the corn was ace, having been picked today, smothered in Azorean butter (a bit like Cornish or Welsh but not quite so rich) and lots of black pepper. I even marginally cooked the little blighter and it was tender but tasteless ... a bit like the little Chinese ones! :D

 

Perhaps I was wrong, from the pic it looked like the corn hadn't formed, perhaps it had but was not ripe, unlike the main cob. :rolleyes: