A) I hate getting the kernel skins stuck in my teeth. This happens when eating directly from the cob. I spend dozens and dozens of minutes picking, flossing, and sucking my teeth to get them clean. I'd prefer to shave the kernels off with a knife.
If I must eat from the cob:
B) Cobs with husks attached-- you get these at festivals and fairs. Sometimes they're so frickin' delicious you have to just put up with the A) issues. I'm eating it like a dot matrix printer prints on its drum, from one end to the other, rotate a bit and do it again. Cuz it's hard to rotate more with the damn husk in the way.
C) Cobs without husks-- family gatherings with plastic utensils that couldn't shave a cob in any circumstances. Start at the left end and spin the cob until that section is clear; move slightly right, repeat.
So I'm a pragmatist. And this post had me spending far too much time analyzing and posting about my corn eating habits.
This brings up the issue of handedness: stem in the left hand, or stem in the right hand? I'm guessing you're right-handed, thus the left end is the pointy tip of the corn?
I eat corn exactly as you do in (C) (more or less in columns; clear a column of all corn, then shift over to the right exactly one mouth width). The difference though is that I hold it with the pointy end to my left and the stem end to my right, but I start at the pointy end. I'm left-handed.
A) I hate getting the kernel skins stuck in my teeth. This happens when eating directly from the cob. I spend dozens and dozens of minutes picking, flossing, and sucking my teeth to get them clean. I'd prefer to shave the kernels off with a knife.
If I must eat from the cob:
B) Cobs with husks attached-- you get these at festivals and fairs. Sometimes they're so frickin' delicious you have to just put up with the A) issues. I'm eating it like a dot matrix printer prints on its drum, from one end to the other, rotate a bit and do it again. Cuz it's hard to rotate more with the damn husk in the way.
C) Cobs without husks-- family gatherings with plastic utensils that couldn't shave a cob in any circumstances. Start at the left end and spin the cob until that section is clear; move slightly right, repeat.
So I'm a pragmatist. And this post had me spending far too much time analyzing and posting about my corn eating habits.
Hi, I'm delinka, and I eat corn.