Corn Tax

Remember when you used to buy fresh sweet corn and you were not allowed to pull back the husks to look at the corn? It just was not done. It would be like peeling back the wrapper on a pack of baseball cards to make sure you didn’t get another Billy Ripken card when you needed the Cal Ripken one. You’d get thrown out of the store for doing that. Grocery stores had those double swinging saloon type doors at the back of the produce aisle. And the doors had those little windows at the top. If they caught you peeling back husk the produce man would bust through those swinging doors like the Dodge City Sherriff in a western. He’d be on you like flies on…….corn.

Nowadays, people pull back the husks and nobody does anything. Nothing. So, yeah, you start digging through the fresh corn and half of it is half peeled. And, no, I’m not gonna buy the one that’s half peeled. No way.

There is an easy solution here, you know. Simply charge extra for the half peeled corn. That’ll stop them in their tracks. After the shoppers start behaving themselves the policy can be, um, “repeeled”. Heh!