The Challenge
So I’ve decided to see if it’s possible:
I’m not going to eat corn for a month.
In any form. Starting today.
That means no corn-fed hamburgers. No corn-sweetened juice. No corn-oiled salad dressings. Not even my beloved mono- and diglycerides! Frankly, I’m not sure if I can do it. Corn is in nearly every food that comes from a restaurant or a package, and I’m going to be in my home kitchen for less than half of November. The waiters are gonna love me.
I will make one exception to the rule, and allow myself to eat corn on the cob, fresh, as nature intended it. It’s not that I think corn is bad, but the ubiquity of processed corn is a measure of how industrialized our food system has become. And trying to live outside the corn kingdom — without going broke — should make the next 30 days pretty interesting. Think of it as Super Size Me… in reverse.
But I’m not the only one who gets this question about whether I’ve changed my diet.
Ian? Do you read these posts? Time to put up or shut up, buddy — I dare you to make November a corn-free month too.
And for the rest of you out there? Join the King Corn Challenge…if you think you can make it.