you might have convinced me if you hadn't used bulgur-wheat and if you hadn't used "com" qua "com", because it wouldn't have been shortened in that particular way
if, instead, you said it was a misinterpretation of "corn," it would have been more believable
"but Siobhán," you say, "none of those are corn!"
while "corn" is generally interpreted to mean maize in modern English, historically it was the word for a single kernel of a cereal grain, and also meant anything small in roughly the same general size as a kernel of grain, thus, for example, peppercorns or barleycorns
I don't know off the top of my head if it was ever used for lentils or other legumes
but it's similar to how "apple" was a generic term for a firm round tree fruit that didn't have a specific name established rather than the fruit of Malus domestica specifically
it's why we call them pineapples; originally, "pine apple" (two words) referred to pinecones, for at least a couple hundred years before Westerners were even aware the Americas existed, but John Smith (yes, the John Smith associated with the Jamestown colony) used it to refer to the yellow-fleshed tropical fruit (which, I learned recently, is a cluster of berries that become one big fruit), perhaps because of the Spanish word, piña, or the French phrase that Gonzalo Hernández Oviedo (whose use of "piña" is the oldest attested) also used, pomme de pin, i.e., pine apple, to describe it
and all of that is true, because I enjoy shitposts, I love explaining stuff like the above even more
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