You probably eat your corn on the cob the way most Americans do: you bare your teeth and bite into the row with your cat on your shoulder.
Cat is optional.
But Japanese Twitter user @alovesun went viral this week when he tweeted about a new, exciting way to eat the vegetable/grain/fruit:
北海道移住して一番驚いたのはとうもろこしのこの食べ方でした。 pic.twitter.com/1iqn8EhMbD
— アラブ三郎 (@alovesun) June 25, 2017
Translation: “The thing that shocked me the most after moving to Hokkaido was how they eat corn.”
For those of you wondering, yes, corn seed really is a grain, a vegetable, AND a fruit.
Step by step, you have to:
1) Create some space by taking out a row of kernels;
2) Place your thumb over the neighboring row of kernels;
and
3) Push the row toward the new space you’ve created.
Buzzfeed even shared a video about it:
Your corn cob will end up looking like this:
Some on Twitter weren’t convinced.
I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t gnaw their corn cobs like a zombie with a fresh forearm
— Justin Wright (@JustinJWright22) July 19, 2017
These life hacks seem like more work. How is that easier than just picking it up and bitting
— Lachandra Jordan (@SondraBrena) July 20, 2017
Others offered alternate methods.
This is how I eat my corn only I use my teeth so it goes straight into my mouth without unnecessary extra handling.
— Buyu (@Buyu) July 19, 2017
Just use a knife lol faster and you don’t need to wait for the corn to cool
— Mohit Whabi (@mohitwhabi) July 19, 2017
But this Twitter user was mighty impressed.
Your corn technic is very strong. Props…
— Charles DeArmon (@BadChizzle) June 26, 2017
And so are we! Let’s raise a cob to no more corn in our teeth!
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