Talk:Staple food

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[edit] Staple (cooking)

Typical example of wiktionary term. Pfortuny 16:50, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)

• Merge with Staple food, redirect, and then list Staple food here. Anthony DiPierro 17:09, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)
• Delete. These are not staple foods and should be added to Staple food. They could be added as types of food to Food David Thrale 22:58, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)

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I am redirecting Staple (cooking) to this article, but without merging the text, as it was disputed. It went as follows:

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A staple is a common cooking substance. Some staples include:

• Flour
• Sugar
• Butter/Margarine
• Eggs
• Salt
• Baking soda
• Baking powder
• Vinegar
• Vegetable oil
• Yeast
• Cornmeal
• Rice
• Buckwheat
• Lard

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[edit] Please add Maize and Corn to this list of staple foods

I'm not an expert; however, Maize (the grain) and Sweet Corn (the vegetable) should be prominantly added as two staple food items on this page. With respect to corn you have corn starch, corn meal and corn syrup which are significant ingredients to many manufactured food products. In the USA, the UK and other places, the poorer folk grow corn in their cornfields and eat corn a lot more than rice, which is listed very prominantly here.;) --Ermeyers 01:07, 27 July 2006 (UTC)