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So which state has the best cobs? I'm fond of the ol' Jersey cobs, myself. Fresh and green and white on the inside, yum. But other cobs are OK too.
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^^NJ's soil is known for enhancing the sweetness of whatever is grown in it.^^ There is a South or Central American fruit that looks suspiciously like a cob but it is green and the kernels are concave rather than convex. I cannot remember the name of this fruit, but I want to taste it. It is a cob imposter, albeit a mediocre one.
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Nessus posted:So which state has the best cobs? I'm fond of the ol' Jersey cobs, myself. Fresh and green and white on the inside, yum. But other cobs are OK too. The best cobs go into the best corncob pipes - which are made right here in the fine state o' Missouri.
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| # ? Jan 4, 2013 13:34 |
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Viridiant posted:Hello, friends. I know there's a lot of negative feeling towards cobs in this thread, but I would just like to say that some negative experiences with cobs can be avoided with proper cob etiquette.
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therattle posted:Tell me, friend, can one use a hedgehog as a cob holder? I do not recommend using hedgehogs as a cob holder. Please observe this educational video on the matter. As you can see, hedgehogs can barely manage two kernels of a cob. It also seems to shrink away from the second one at first, perhaps remembering a traumatic experience with a skewer styled cob holder. THIS IS THE SECOND ANIMAL MADE OF SHARP POINTY THINGS THAT HAS SHOWN EVIDENCE OF AN AVERSION TO SKEWER STYLED COB HOLDERS, DO NOT USE SKEWER STYLED COB HOLDERS. Squirrels demonstrate proper cob holder practice in this video. Little Red Tractors attached to a vertical object, in this case a tree, are the preferable method of cob holding. You will notice how the tiny tractor holds the cob at a slightly diagonal position for the convenience and safety of the cob eater. Were this squirrel's hands injured in the preparation of the cob? NO. His hands are obviously fine as you can see he is practicing the All Hands On Deck method of cob eating with expert proficiency. In case you were wondering, the video is addressed to cats because cats are notoriously bad mannered when it comes to eating cob. Observe this cat eating cob. Do you see it? He is using cob skewers! Do not do as cats do. This cat could have been seriously injured in the preparation of his cob. He should have listened to the nice man in the background of the video's beginning. I would certainly not do that either. To summarize: - Use little red tractors attached to a vertical object as a cob holder. - Do not listen to cats, they do not know what they are talking about. Viridiant fucked around with this message at Jan 4, 2013 around 14:49 |
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Beanzor posted:I may be outing myself as a BTW these socks are great for corns.
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| # ? Jan 4, 2013 15:59 |
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I once pitched a movie about farm corruption where the main protagonist was the only honest farmhand. Unfortunately, cobs are a hot button issue so I guess COB LAND will have to be put on the back burner for now.
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| # ? Jan 4, 2013 16:25 |
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I actually used to smoke out of cobs back in my pipe smoking days with a dude named Pete Cobb. Ended up quitting because one day Cobb smoked his cob too much, went cob wild, and keeled over dead from a stroke. Last I heard they're making a movie about him called Its All Gone Pete Cobb.
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My favorite form of corn is popcorn, which has nothing to do with cobs. I can safely say that I am a neutral party as far as cobs go.
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| # ? Jan 4, 2013 18:43 |
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Viridiant posted:I do not recommend using hedgehogs as a cob holder. Please observe this educational video on the matter. As you can see, hedgehogs can barely manage two kernels of a cob. It also seems to shrink away from the second one at first, perhaps remembering a traumatic experience with a skewer styled cob holder. THIS IS THE SECOND ANIMAL MADE OF SHARP POINTY THINGS THAT HAS SHOWN EVIDENCE OF AN AVERSION TO SKEWER STYLED COB HOLDERS, DO NOT USE SKEWER STYLED COB HOLDERS.
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| # ? Jan 4, 2013 18:52 |
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I had a terrible Cobb salad over the holiday season. After that negative experience I doubt I'll ever eat another Cobb.
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MustelaFuro posted:^^NJ's soil is known for enhancing the sweetness of whatever is grown in it.^^ The monstera! It apparently tastes like a pineapple, so it is the opposite of corn.
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That old brown prairie that had been so dry for so long was very muddy, boggy and sticky. We’d pull one truck out and get another stuck in. 
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| # ? Jan 4, 2013 19:24 |
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Eating off the cob means getting huge chunks of the fibers wedged between my teeth. It hurts. 
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| # ? Jan 4, 2013 19:38 |
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At least this thread isn't about gorb control.
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| # ? Jan 4, 2013 19:49 |
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You can only speak up like this in winter, you know- when cobs are not in season and there are no ears listening. Otherwise you go into a corn maze and never come out.
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| # ? Jan 4, 2013 19:52 |
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I actually can't say as I've had any negative experiences with cobs. (There is a madman threatening me with a cob in the house. Call the corn police!!!)
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| # ? Jan 4, 2013 20:21 |
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This thread. This thread is my negative experience with cobs. Corbs, on the other hand....I loving love corbs.
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| # ? Jan 4, 2013 20:44 |
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 I've never had a negative experience with Cobs. They bake their bread every day, and the stuff that doesn't get used is picked up by the food bank. The pumpkin scones and hot-cross buns are amazing.
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| # ? Jan 4, 2013 21:17 |
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I always lose my cob skewers that are mini cobs.  
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| # ? Jan 4, 2013 21:23 |
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ShuckyDucky posted:This is elote - Mexican corn on the cob: What the hell? It only takes three to five minutes to boil a cob to perfection. Why would anyone cook a cob for an entire hour?
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This is wonderful and I love you.
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| # ? Jan 5, 2013 10:12 |
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Spacedad posted:I actually can't say as I've had any negative experiences with cobs. This would never happen if you had a set of good, sharp cob skewers. That's why I say a guard with corn skewers should be posted at every school and cafeteria in the land.
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Its not cornhusking but I remember lying about my age to detassel. Detasseling sucks. You get paid minimum wage (which I admit is a shitload at that age) to walk up and down fields pulling these tassels out of corn so they don't become dead beats that only have sex and don't get a cob. It didn't help that I was loving terrible at it. You have to get up at like 4 or 5 am, go to some designated spot to get on the bus (it is still dark out AND it is your summer vacation). The drive to wherever is always at least one hour, you'd think this is a good thing but you don't get paid for the bus ride. Or you didn't back then. You can try to sleep on the way there but that would open you up to hazing or if you managed to sleep, being groggy for the first hour. When you get there the fields are soaking wet. We weren't told this before hand and I wondered why people had garbage bags with them. It is to cover their bodies. Also, wear gloves and maybe long sleeves. Walking through a cornfield is kind of like walking through a crowd where everyone is holding paper and trying to give you papercuts. My first walk through a field I didn't pull one tassel because I had no idea what that was, I thought I was just lucky. I was completely soaked. A Nebraska summer often consisted of a shitload of humidity, so when it was time for my clothes to dry the humidity kicked in so soon you are soaked from sweat. Just in time for the swarm of bugs and mosquitoes to descend onto the fields. There are a dozen little stories about my time there but the fact is, I quit when I figured out I had just enough to buy a Virtual Boy and one game, which was the SMARTEST decision I ever made. Detasseling did not build any character or teach me respect for "what it takes to pay bills". It made me try to avoid working until my late teens, little did I know it is probably the shittiest job out there which made every other job I had awesome by comparison. This is with six months in a meat processing plant. gently caress cobs.
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Cobs ain't worth poo poo if you don't have front teeth.
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You're my favorite.
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Megaspel posted:Post you are favourite favourite baps. You realize it's "your", right
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I don't respect anyone who eats off the cob. ACAB (all cobbers are bastards).
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I went to the corn palace on a cross country vacation with my parents when I was about 12. I was very surprised that the inside of it was just kind of a lovely flea market, but one vendor had some pogs, and those were pretty popular at the time, so I bought some. I got a pretty sweet slammer IIRC. Can this thread be about both cobs and pogs?
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I had to eat corn on the cob once with just butter and there was no Old Bay. It was terrible.
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I don't know what cobs are used for, but the corn in America is mostly just turned into Mountain Dew syrup. I wanted to make a Cubs joke, since I've had many negative experiences with them, but whatever.
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In regards to the OP, I have visited that same cobstrosity. My parents thought it would be an interesting stop. We were mostly up there to see Sioux Falls, the Badlands, and Mt. Rushmore at the end of it all. That corn palace was multicolored kernel hell for the entire time I was there. I actually do wish I'd gotten some kind of souvenir so I'd remember the place more often/have somewhere so boring it's interesting to talk about in my life's roadmap, but at the time I wandered into the gift shop and just thought "goddamnit it's all corn".AKA Pseudonym posted:People used to wipe their butts with corn cobs. I can't imagine that was pleasant. Pre- or post-kernel consumption? Or even pre-shucking?
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Millstone posted:You realize it's "your", right No I didn't. Thank you are for correcting me. EDIT: Oh what the gently caress I didn't even post in the Gunnerkrigg thread whatever. EDIT: Oh wait I did. FUGK IHATE COBES
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Megaspel posted:No I didn't. Thank you are for correcting me. There is no escape.
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Samsquamsch posted:
In regards to cob bathroom use, I have it on good authority that they were soaked in water so they would be soft. I have many reasons to dislike cobs, but I'm not sure that counts.
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You really are wonderful. There is just no disputing it.
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PlantRobot posted:They don't do the typewriter 'ding' sound when you get to the end. WELL, I GUESS IT'S TIME TO KILL MYSELF THEN
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ShuckyDucky posted:When I was studying Spanish in Mexico, I befriended a young woman from the University of Minnesota. She was a lightning rod for bad luck. Even though she knew this, she insisted in trying food from the street vendors. Yeah, if you're not from there, you should never eat food from Mexican street vendors. My cousins seem to be able eat them like nothing, but I ate on once and ended up sick for days. The non-street vendor ones are delicious though.
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Christoph posted:old candy corn is the worst. I imagine fresh off the cob would be good, though My adviser in college said the same thing. Giving him a small bag of candy corn would literally earn everyone in the class 5 points. When I was little, like 6 or something, I couldn't touch corn on the cob because it was always too hot so my mom always had to give me those holder things with the metal spikes on them. Sometime in the 90's, the spiked ones got phased out and replaced with these lovely plastic corkscrew looking things and they never actually worked unless you way overcooked the corn so it was soft enough to mash the corkscrew into it. Those things were pretty lame corn-holders. The small end of the cob could never hold either type unless the end was cut-off, so that's was a letdown. I had to show my wife how to cook corn on the cob. Before she met me, she would boil the corn for at least 40 minutes, perfect for those plastic holders, but it turned delicious sweet corn into mush. She got all mad when I told her to boil it for 8 minutes, like vermicelli pasta.
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