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I’m a typewriter. I have a sister and a grandson who are both lathes.
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… counting the days till the Amish produce stands have fresh sweet corn…
Typewriter. I even “ping” when I come to the end.
Roasted over an open flame and then flavored with mustard seed oil, salt, chili powder, and fresh lime.
Shucked before roasting?
Me too.
I answered “lathe,” but I do both. I think I usually do a row across like a typewriter, then continue as a lathe after laying down that first groove. ETA: Actually, now that I think about it, I think I usually only go halfway across to start. Then when I finish the first half, I lay down another line across and lathe.
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How do I butter corn on the cob?
butter a piece of white bread and roll the corn cob on the bread.
Yummy…
I’ve done the mixed mode like that. The size and shape of the ear can make a difference. If it’s very conic where the kernels rapidly dwindle in size down to the small end, I’m more likely to lathe the fat end first. And sometimes while typewritering I just get to a spot where I want to switch to lathe for no reason I can recall. I’ve seen someone do it in a helix, lathing and typewritering simultaneously.
And in the writing of that, I realize I always eat left to right. Is everyone doing that? Where written languages go right to left is that how they eat their corn? Do left handers eat right to left?
I don’t know if I’ve ever noticed. But last night I ate it right to left. I’m right-handed and only speak English.
I also wondered how I prefer to orient it. Small side on the right or left? I think however it’s put in front of me is how I accept it.
Typewriter for me.
I always put the small end to the right, and I eat it from right to left. I’m a right-hander.
I’m a Smith-Corona; or possibly an IBM Selectric III.
Both. First a line across like a typewriter, then circles like a lathe. The initial pass gives me a starting point for my upper teeth, so they grab more corn each pass thereafter.
Lots and lots of pepper, little if any salt.
BTW, in Europe I was surprised to find corn on the cob - in cans! Yep - a large can with four little cobs stuffed in there. You yanked them out and heated them up. (Sort of the same size and shape as those small ones you can buy in the frozen food section here in the US.)
Yup, yup, and yup. And yup.
My wife is a lathe, and my kids take the scattershot approach. Philistines.
And we use a Buttergirl.
ETA: I misread that- I eat from left to right.
Like a lathe. I often can’t finish the whole cob, so I eat the best part first. The best part is toward the narrow end, where the kernels are small, tender and sweet. Then if any of the cob goes to waste, it’ll be the tougher, starchy kernels at the broad end.