00:02De-tasseling corn, someone said.
00:03It was hell but one of the best paying summer jobs for a 14 or 15 year old.
00:08Well, it was, every one of my friends did it once.
00:12They did that once.
00:13I don't know anyone who did that.
00:14Yeah, no, it was big like we were growing up.
00:18It's like, so different.
00:20No blockbuster and cornfields.
00:22Cornfields, man.
00:23I don't know.
00:24Canada.
00:27Canada.
00:28Canadian rednecks.
00:28Yeah.
00:29How's she going?
00:30De-tasseling corn is what?
00:32Like it's pulling the tassels off.
00:34The husk?
00:35Yeah, the top part.
00:37You had to chop that off or whatever.
00:39Isn't that called shucking?
00:40Yes.
00:41No, no.
00:42It's different.
00:43Shucking is taking the corn off, right?
00:46This is clipping the very top, like the flowering part, I think.
00:52I never did it, so I don't know for sure, but I think they had to.
00:56Two entirely different processes.
00:57Yeah, they had to chop off the very top of the plant.
01:02Okay.
01:03I don't know if it was collecting seed.
01:04Canadian corn versus U.S. corn, I get it.
01:06Clean corn.
01:07Clean, safe corn.
01:09De-tasseling is a crucial step to control pollination and grow hybrid corn, whereas shucking
01:14is the final processing step of removing the outer leaves before eating or cooking.
01:18Yeah, this was something to do with before it would pollinate.
01:20You had to chop off the flower part or whatever would do that.
01:24We don't know about that.
01:25We just know about the final part.
01:26These are all Canadian.
01:27She was ready to eat it.
01:28That was you guys?
01:28That was chucking it in there.
01:30That was like children in the corn.
01:31Exactly.
01:32Honestly, that's what it was.
01:33All of my friends that were young were all in cornfields.
01:37You know, all the guys from Sarnia.
01:41Wow.
01:41They were all doing that, but they all just did it for one year because it was the worst
01:48job of all time.
01:49Yeah.
01:50Apparently, that's what they said.
01:51Horrible.
01:52Yeah.
01:52Yeah.
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