Originally Posted by
rhiannonwales
The reason corn syrup is not kosher at Passover is because Ashkenazi Jews are prohibited from consuming corn, rice and legumes during Passover. Living in the NYC metro, we always have kosher Coke around this time of year. You can always tell because instead of traditional red caps, they are another color, usually yellow. It is 10000% percent better.
Correct. Nevermind that corn is indigenous to North America, so had Moses found some corn, he'd likely have eaten it. Nothing in the bible about corn -- they'd never seen the stuff.