Corn sex is complicated. As Michael Pollan observes in “The Omnivore’s Dilemma,†the whole affair is so freakishly difficult it’s hard to imagine how it ever evolved in the first place. Corn’s female organs are sheathed in a sort of vegetable chastity . . .
via The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2012/07/23/120723taco_talk_kolbert