Why did corn never take off in European food to the extent that

>>9202392
Its not filling

>>9202392
Read The History of the Peloponnesian Wars.

It's gross

>>9202392
The corn that Europeans found was much smaller and starchier and required processing to be nutritious. It's only more recently that we've been able to breed the corn we are familiar with

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Some corn varieties look horrible and probably were unappealing until the all yellow type became common.

>>9202392
Because it's a shit tier crop from a nutritional and agricultural point of view. Oh and it tastes bad.

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It has more to do with corn being subsidized in the US that has promoted its popularity.
To compete with sugarcane owning countries, we made it so farmers got to sell their corn for more money than some other crops by ensuring they would get a government check for putting that corn to sale. This encouraged the consumption/production of High fructose corn syrup over cane sugar.

Times have changed and economic sanctions lifted, but the corn subsidy stays.

In South America/Mexico, it's native and the demand is consistent.

Europe has no incentive to push it up, it's garbage nutritionally and growing it irresponsibly can destroy land.

Japan loves it some fucking corn though, so who knows. Likely imported Ameribooism.

Europe literally thought that tomatoes where poisonous for hundreds of years.

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>>9202510
Come to Iowa, you cunt, I'll fuck you up. I'll beat you half to death with an ear of corn, see if you talk shit after that.

>>9202510
This. Corn requires huge amounts of space to grow any reasonable amount of it. The USA can afford to waste thousands of acres for a cup full of HFCS, but the rest of us need to actually feed people.

It was a staple food for the poor in italy in the 1800s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellagra

>>9202392
It needs a longer growing season than you get in most of europe.
Also, what is objectively superior.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixtamalization

>>9202392
They tried but the areas that relied on corn didn't do as well.