"Really-Old-Fart" wrote:
Jay Honeck wrote:

You got that right! We just returned from a flight to Davenport from
Iowa City, and I can vouch for the fact that there is huge, lush,
beautiful, tassling corn literally everywhere between here and there.

It's quite a sight, at this time of year, viewing the breadbasket of
the world from above...


Uh, wouldn't that be the "cornbreadbasket"?

I composed a similar response and just before hitting send had second
thoughts and trashed the response instead. I guess I did that because I
thought the witticism to Jay's poetic license would be, ahem, corny.

I mean really, who (besides those of us who were born and lived there) rags
on Lobo for singing about the "wheat fields of St. Paul" in the song "Me
and You and a Dog Named Boo?"

;-)

(Okay - there might be one wheat field in St. Paul - probably near the St.
Paul campus of the University of Minnesota. I mean gee, it's an urban area
after all! The breadbasket for the North American continent is a bit
farther north and west and spreads into Canada for shucks sake! :-))