Went to the grocery store the other day to replenish my stocks of some of life’s little necessities like facial-quality personal hygiene tissues and trimethylxanthine solutions. On my way past the shelves of canned vegetables my gaze was arrested by a small sign displaying a great—nay, shockingly—low price for canned corn.

I happen to be a great fan of canned corn, so I scooped up several cans and was just about to resume my leisurely stroll down the aisles when I noticed that I’d inadvertently picked up two different kinds of corn. In my cart next to the bottles of Night Train lolled cans of "Canned Corn" and "Super Sweet Canned Corn". Since there is still an ample supply of sugar to be mined from the kids’ Halloween haul, I figured I didn’t need any extra, and started putting the cans of Super Sweet back on the shelf.

Reading the ingredient label on the back of the last can, I was surprised to find it contained only corn, water, and salt. No sugar. Wondering what the difference between the two kinds was, I picked up a can of the plain stuff to discover it contained corn, water, sugar, and salt. Wondering if this was just some labelling screwup with the store brand, I examined the name-brand cans; they, too added sugar to the cans designated simply "Corn", while "Super Sweet" or "Sweet" contained only the dash of salt.

Am I alone in finding this dichotomous?