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Bugle chips, are just the recycled taps that they use for the stalks.

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[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

IIRC there has been speculation that teosinte was originally cultivated for their stalks which were juiced much like sugar cane. Only later when a mutation got rid of the rock hard seed coat did it become a grain crop.