What is the correct way to eat it?

Question:
Or, how do YOU eat it, if you don't want to be all "my way is the right way"

Choices:
From end to end, like a typewriter
Around the circumference, like a beaver
Random bites, like a crazy person
I don't eat corn on the cob, because I hate life. And freedom.

 

I eat around it in sections. Finish off one round section move down the corn cob, eat around it... etc. So um... like a beaver then.

Typewriter style here. I thought it was funny as a kid

I guess I still do

I'd eat MEAT on the cob...but I guess I hate freedom.

*treats friendly meanly*

*trips it up*

*steals freedom's lunch money*

I used to eat it typewriter style, until I realized I didn't have to.

Pass.

I nibble out two horizontal rows (typewriter style), then break off the rows below one at a time with my lower teeth.

This results in consumption of the whole grain, and a nearly perfectly clean cob.

It pleases me.

*waits for Cass to find the thread and complain about the lack of options*

Like a typewriter.

*wonders how Cass does it*

Typewriter style, baby!

 And I, uhm, still make the monster 'nom nom nom' sounds like I did when I was a kid... 

Typewriter style. But the real question is how do you cook it? We prefer roasting it in husk, on a sheet of metal over a wood fire (apple and cherry for preference) with wet burlap covering them.

Yummeh.

ETA: Pappy's Way - cut it all off the cob 'cos he ain't got no teef!

I'm not voting because my option isn't there:
I cut layers off the cob with a knife and then eat it with a fork
it sounds weird, but since the first time I was introduced to this sort of eating I can't do anything else

I chomp and rotate eating it down in a spiral.

and I cook it in the husk on the grill....mmmmm.

quote:

Originally posted by Domitella:
I nibble out two horizontal rows (typewriter style), then break off the rows below one at a time with my lower teeth.

This results in consumption of the whole grain, and a nearly perfectly clean cob.

It pleases me.

this is how I eat it when I'm forced to eat it, for it pleases me, as well. but! I don't like corn on the cob because I hate freedom and prefer my corn decobbed.

Oh and I have a friend who always breaks the stem off - I hate that! I need a handle!

Maize?

I curse it's very existence

but how would we have high fructose corn syrup without it? civilization would come crashing down!

I eat it typewriter style when I do eat it. Because of how tightly packed my teeth are, it is very easy for the corn to become painfully lodged between them. In order to spare hours of flossing and gum infections I usually avoid eating it like this and usually Hooligan cuts it off the cob for me.

quote:

Originally posted by Giabow:
Like a typewriter.

*wonders how Cass does it*

Well, funny you should ask!

I break off every individual grain, if possible - in that case I do it around the circumference as it's easier to get to the grains. If I can't break off the outmost grains, I bite two rows off like a typewriter & then break the remaining corns off by row. This results in the nearly perfectly clean cob Domi described, & in a plate full of individual grains. I mostly eat those right away (& whenever I offer some to other people, they like it too) after putting a little salt over them, but sometimes I put them away (in a tupper or sth) & eat them a day or two later. They're wonderful brainfood then.

Admittedly eating corn on the cob like that takes forever & means I get funny looks the first time, but it's also very therapeutic & soothing. And it gives me lots of time to look forward to eating my corn.

I have traditionally been a proponent of the typewriter method, but recently (within the last year), I have switched to the rotational method.

If I have a method I am unconscious of it.

I have to have corn cob holders though. My wife makes fun of me for this.

She makes fun of me for a lot of things.