Corn Free?

We went grocery shopping with Mom one day and asked her if we could buy some corn on the cob.  She said no, that by the time we were done shopping we'd have more corn in our basket than we would know what to do with.  We were confused; they don't have corn on the cob in all the aisles! 

Mom told us to read the labels of the different items we wanted to buy.  We found she was right!  We found corn products in almost everything we love: hotdogs, sour pickles, lemonade, roasted peanuts, chocolate milk, and even in our ketchup.  We found it harder to find items without corn in it!  Mom said this makes us educated customers, and now that we know, our challenge is to try to buy as few products as possible with corn in it.  She said we should try going "corn free" for a day to see if we can do it.  We wonder if we can; as we looked around the store, that might not be possible!  Give up ketchup?  Oh, that will be hard to do!

According to this Missouri website, over 4,200 items in our local grocery store has some sort of corn in it.  The website claims it's even in toothpaste!   We checked ours, but couldn't find a list of ingredients on the tube.  We will have to check the next time we go grocery shopping with Mom, and we'll ask our dentist when we see him next week. 

The website says corn is in fireworks too!  We wonder, when we were celebrating the 4th of July, watching the fireworks burst in pretty colors high in the sky, were we really watching corn?  And if we were, wouldn't it have been funny if it popped like popcorn?