The zen of corn on the cob

[unixronin]

Comparative corn-eating styles:

• I start at the small end and eat kernels in a continuous spiral until I reach the large end.
• cymrullewes starts at the right end and eats in a row to the other end, then indexes à là typewriter and works in the other direction.
• Goose starts at the big end, eats a continuous ring with sort of rapid squirrel nibbles, then indexes over.
• Pirate just sort of attacks hers at random as she rotates it, leaving it looking as though it's been savaged by a ferocious chipmunk.
• Wen gives hers to Goose to eat.  :-)

(Crossposted to caerllewys)

Comments

[drdemure.livejournal.com]

Typewriter style, but I hit the return carriage and start again from the right. As for butter, I prefer to butter it with a stick in the wrapper. Does anyone remember when they sold margarine in sticks? Do they still sell margarine in sticks? But I'm a real butter gal. Oh, and then I salt the crap out of it. As I do nearly everything.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

"That's the low-price spread." -- Tom Clancy (of the Clancy Brothers, not the author)

I've never bought margarine. My mother used to buy the stuff, and I always thought it was nasty.

Ironically, New Scientist reported a couple of years ago that margarine, introduced as a healthier and less expensive alternative to butter, is actually more damaging to your health than butter is. It's all those hydrogenated oils.

[drdemure.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my dad went on some weird health kick in the seventies which involved margarine, decaf coffee, dehydrated onions and lots of bananas.

None of those things are good for us now. I wonder if he still swallows handfuls of vitamins and then feels safe to eat whatever crap crosses his plate.

[bfudlmint.livejournal.com]

Remember when margarine was white and came with coloring packs you had to add to it yourself to make it look like butter?

Why are bananas bad for you?

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Coloring packs......?!?

This is something that never made it across the Atlantic. (Thankfully.)

[bfudlmint.livejournal.com]

According to Wikipedia, the color capsules were caused by laws inacted by the dairy lobby.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margarine

[drdemure.livejournal.com]

I don't remember anymore. They might not be bad for you, but they apparently aren't as good for you as everyone has always thought.