Princeton’s corn lady, Vivian O’Connor, is back in business for another season.
O’Connor has been delivering fresh Chilliwack corn to Princeton residents and visitors for several years, selling it from the parking lot adjacent to the Chevron gas station.
She insists Triple Sweet Jubilee corn is variety that made Chilliwack corn so famous.
“It comes from a farmer in the deep dark Chilliwack. He grows absolutely the best corn ever. His family has been in agriculture for eons and they’ve been careful to preserve this strain of corn.”
As O’Connor works part-time, she makes one corn run per week, on Thursdays. She brings 100 dozen and usually sells in out in two days. “I don’t believe you can call it fresh after three days, so anything after that goes to my chickens.”
Chilliwack Julibee corn is the kind O’Connor first tasted at the Pacific National Exhibition (PNE) when she was a child. “It was on sticks and dipped in melted butter. There was always line-ups for it. I still remember my first bite of one and it was always the first place I spent money when attending the PNE.”
Her favourite part of being the local ‘corn lady’ is seeing the seniors faces light up and hear their stories of eating Chilliwack Jubilee when they were young. “The other thing is how to many cool people I’ve met while sitting in the parking lot. You’d be amazed.”
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