How do you eat your sweet corn?
I've always ate it horizontaly in rows and so did every one I thought.The first time my girlfriend saw me eat it that way she told me I was doing it wrong. Your supposed to eat it going around the ear. Obviously it taste the same no matter how you eat it. What do you think?
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26 Comments:
I learned to eat corn from the cartoons, you eat it in rows and work your way around, at the end of each row a typrwriter bell sounds and you hit the carriage return and continue. ;-)
huneybumper at 11:11AM on 08/14/08
like huneybumper said, without the typewriter sounds ;)
if you eat it around the ear, when you put it down into the corndish (or whatever you use to hold your corn), any butter drippings latch onto the gnawed up part, which is wasteful!!
Southern_bella at 11:27AM on 08/14/08
I just kind of bite randomly wherever my mouth feels like biting. It usually works out pretty well.
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Chew on That at 12:04PM on 08/14/08
I definitely go around the ear in segments. I start at each end, and finish with the juciest parts in the middle!
ChristineB at 12:36PM on 08/14/08
I cut it off the cob.
ChelleyD01 at 12:42PM on 08/14/08
I'm a horizontal eater, and have never seen or heard of people eating it vertically. Weird, you learn something new everyday I guess.
bobcatsteph3 at 1:11PM on 08/14/08
chew chew chew down the rows, never stopping for air until you get all the way to the end...butter dripping off your chin...bits of corn stuck in your teeth and on the corners of your mouth...twist the cob a rotation, begin again....chew chew chew down the row.
hint: boil your sweet corn with a dash of sugar in the water. yum.
Another yummy variation on grilled corn: Grill in husk, then instead of butter, spread a little mayo, sprinkle with Anchote chili powder, some grated parm cheese, and a squirt of lime. Sounds crazy, but it's delicious!!!
juliebugsmama at 2:02PM on 08/14/08
I am really weird when snacking on corn: I like to twist the kernels off one by one. I don't know where I picked up this habit, no one I know does this.
If I'm eating corn on the cob with a meal, I will go around the cob.
marieinla at 2:16PM on 08/14/08
horizontal rows with typewriter noises in my head (ha ha), but also (and mostly) I cut it off the cob and use it in other things. Mostly the "other things" include "eating the entire pile before it gets to the fridge" because I love corn.
jcmeloni at 3:53PM on 08/14/08
Eat your corn before you eat anything else, eat a horizontal row, then start just above or below where you stopped - takes too much time to go back to the end where you started. This is NOT a typewriter people! R_L_R_L until every kernel is gone and you've sucked all the buttery juices. Take occasional breaks to roll it around in any melted butter remaining on your serving dish (I have corn dishes) if you need air and more buttery goodness. If you ever get your fill, then move on to other dishes, but eating only corn is perfectly acceptable. After all, you can get most of the other stuff anytime!
PerkyMac at 4:31PM on 08/14/08
I'm a vertical girl for the most part, only horizontal on occasion. And I wouldn't dream of putting anything on a perfect cob of sweet corn. If it needs butter or salt its not worth eating! :D
SugarNSpice at 4:44PM on 08/14/08
I can't believe this post. It seems kind of inane. I mean, it's corn! It's delicious! You eat it. There are rules for this??? That's news to me.
That being said, Penzey's 4/S is very good on corn, but this is not relevant to the question of the method of eating corn; it's just a nice alternative to regular table salt.
PAWriter at 4:57PM on 08/14/08
@PAwriter ~ Not Rules. Just Style. ;-)
izatryt at 5:22PM on 08/14/08
@PAWriter: sometimes we just like to have some fun. Join us.
Blue Iris at 6:11PM on 08/14/08
I like it to cool just a little so the butter clings better. Then a little salt and freshly ground black pepper. Eat left to right, rotate up, left to right. Repeat. Typewriter noises optional. When the corn is pretty much gone, roll the cob in the butter, salt and pepper that dripped off and suck the cob.
A little sugar in the cooking water is a great tip. It keeps the corn crisp.
Calichef at 6:52PM on 08/14/08
Anyway, I eat my corn with reckless abandon!
izatryt at 8:31PM on 08/14/08
Ok, if we're talking style, then, my husband (and his uncle and his dad) all eat it in the most ridiculously haphazard fashion possible. I think it's genetic, along with their tendency toward serial sneezing.....
PAWriter at 9:36PM on 08/14/08
Always horizontally, from left to right...to me, the vertical way seems messier and less efficient:-)
brooke29 at 10:32PM on 08/14/08
Not to sound like an idiot, but how does one actually eat COTC vertically?
izatryt at 10:37PM on 08/14/08
The cob itself isn't vertical, that would pretty funny to see actually. I eat it up and down around the cob and then move on instead of going across the cob.
SugarNSpice at 12:55PM on 08/15/08
Typewriter style, like in cartoons!
srhcb at 6:10PM on 08/15/08
FYI: The average ear of corn has 800 kernels, always arranged in 16 rows. There is one piece of silk for each kernel.
srhcb at 6:12PM on 08/15/08
I made the typewriter noise while eating corn with my 4 year old niece. Just to show you how much times have changed...she has no idea what a typewriter is. When I tried to explain it to her she said, "Oh! like my computer! Can it do noggin.com?" Anywho, she still thought the "ding!" was a hoot.
wookie at 6:28PM on 08/15/08
bobcatsteph3 wrote:
Another yummy variation on grilled corn: Grill in husk, then instead of butter, spread a little mayo, sprinkle with Anchote chili powder, some grated parm cheese, and a squirt of lime. Sounds crazy, but it's delicious!!!
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I've had corn just like the above mentioned. It looked crazy when the Mexican vendor was making it up on a stick, however my father said he'd had it before and it was great. He was right, it was absolutely fabulous!
RV Michael at 8:40PM on 08/15/08
RE: wookie: "....she has no idea what a typewriter is."
You would have to have a very wide mouth, or the corn very short ears, to remove the kernals like a laser printer!
srhcb at 8:58PM on 08/15/08
I prefer mines cut off the cob.
sassylady at 12:37AM on 08/16/08