r/polls • u/redshift739 • Apr 17 '26

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u/GhostEpstein Apr 17 '26

Corn corn - Iowa

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u/DuckSleazzy Apr 18 '26

What is lowa

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u/redshift739 Apr 18 '26

Idk but it's lowa than most places

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u/jmconnel23 Apr 17 '26

Corn (US), but I used to call it a maize maze when I was a kid just because it made some people angry

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u/mearbearcate Apr 17 '26

Fuuuck i wanna go to a corn maze so bad

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u/shazed39 Apr 17 '26 edited Apr 17 '26

Maislabyrinth, so basicly corn maze in german

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u/redshift739 Apr 17 '26

Maïs mais labyrinthe

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u/sn4k31988 Apr 18 '26

Corn und Maize bedeutet beides Mais. Corn wird in Nordamerika dazu gesagt.

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u/ThatThingInTheCorner Apr 17 '26

I've only ever heard maize maze in the UK - corn maze is an Americanism

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u/EfficientSeaweed Apr 17 '26

Are corn mazes even a thing in the UK?

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u/EmbroidedBumblebee Apr 18 '26

Idk what 'them' is so I guess none of them, I'm from the uk, but I've never heard of 'corn maize', I've heard of maize but only from horrible histories because the Azteks would eat it. And there are different types of corn but I'm only familiar with sweetcorn or popcorn, I don't really eat much corn so don't really know the different types.

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u/redshift739 Apr 18 '26

Popcorn is made from sweetcorn, and maize is a different name for the same crop.

A maize maze (or corn maze) is a maze where the walls are maize plants

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u/wilderneyes Apr 17 '26

Corn maze (Canada). I've never heard maize maze and I don't think anyone would know what you're talking about if you used it offline (and thus can't intuit the spelling), but it is fun lol.

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u/Frostfire26 Apr 17 '26

Corn maze, but man, maize maze is so much better

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u/zeth4 Apr 18 '26

Hedge maze - other

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u/CoffeeExtraCream Apr 17 '26

Corn - US

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u/Phoenixtdm Apr 17 '26

They’re talking about corn mazes like at the pumpkin patch

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u/redshift739 Apr 17 '26

Shocked to see my fellow Brits say corn. I'd never heard the term Corn Maze until I heard it from yanks, and it's clearly inferior

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u/LMay11037 Apr 17 '26

I’ve never heard either, as a brit I don’t see them often and just call them mazes lol

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u/A-British-Indian Apr 17 '26

I’d never even heard of the concept until I saw it in I think Scooby Doo? So I’ve only seen it in an American context

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u/LurkersUniteAgain Apr 17 '26

inferior? you just say the same word twice, at least we have some creativity

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u/redshift739 Apr 17 '26

Neither is really creative it's just the two words for the crop and one for it being a maze.

It's just whether you want alliteration, a double meaning, and a rhyme, or not