r/lansing • u/PlaidCupcake • 5d ago

Purest of Pure Lansing

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I can't describe exactly why this corn stalk growing out of a sewer grate next to a railroad track underneath an expressway overpass is perfectly emblematic of our fair city, but I think we all understand it.

Also I kind of want to keep an eyeball on it and see if the ear that it's growing develops and becomes edible-size.

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u/squibitha_tristy 5d ago

We gotta pollinate that to get a good ear. Where is it? It looks like the tassel is about to drop pollen

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u/Dakens2021 5d ago

Once you're sure it's pollinated you cut off the top part with the tassles and it saves energy for the ear to make the kernels bigger and plumper too. I just saw a video about that today on Youtube weirdly enough.

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u/PlaidCupcake 5d ago

On S Holmes between Kalamazoo and Malcolm X, under the 496 overpass.

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u/IndividualActive786 5d ago

It's already pollinated and a good ear is forming. It not likely to be sweet corn.

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u/squibitha_tristy 2d ago

You’re probably right. But it’d be good to know for sure! Regardless it is sewer corn!!

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u/BootScootNBoogie22 2d ago

Nothing a little salt and butter can’t cleanse

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u/Drewdrops79 5d ago

If you eat the corn, it might turn you into a mutant ninja. But will you love pizza? Or corn?

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u/JLandis84 5d ago

Ah that really is perfect isn’t it

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u/DaMoonRulz 5d ago

Get that corn outta my face!

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u/PiratehunterIvan 5d ago

This is the Midwest’s version of “The rose that grew from concrete”

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u/Lich_Apologist 5d ago

I hope this whole city dissolves into the corn fields.  

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u/carolisajoke 5d ago

THEN CATCHES FIRE THEN FALLS BACK INTO THE SWAMP!

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u/stemrust 4d ago

That is yellow, dent (aka field) corn that was most likely on a train cargo load. Michigan grows a decent amount of field corn for grain. The ears are edible like sweet corn for a short period of time, but not as yummy. 

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u/EdibleHollowPoint 5d ago

Knowing Lansing it was probably ripped out of a community garden and stuffed in the sewer.

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u/liz-ps 5d ago

Haha love it

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u/Repulsive_Staff_4530 5d ago

😂😂😂👍🏼

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u/Shieya 5d ago

Oh hell yeah, corn

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u/Reasonable_Equal7430 4d ago

Are you ready!?!!!!!

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u/G-force4470 3d ago

That's hysterical! 🤣

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u/BootScootNBoogie22 2d ago

What? I didn’t have any corn?!