Me So Corny

I love me some sweet corn. And at this time of year here in the midwest, the grocery stores and farmers markets are practically overflowing with it. There's nothing better to me than biting into a crisp, juicy ear of sweet corn dripping with butter (not margarine, not oleo, not "vegetable spread," but real live BUTTER). Just shuck an ear or two, pop it into some boiling water with some salt and sugar, and boil it for six minutes. Six minutes only, y'all, and it'll come out perfectly cooked every time. 

Heaven.

Anyway, needless to say, we've been having a lot of corn on the cob around here lately. I'm sure everyone but me is already getting sick of it (too bad, suckas!). In fact, the other day I got proof that at least one person in this house is over it already.

I was digging in the kids' toy box looking for a lost pacifier when my fingers brushed up against something really nasty-feeling. Bumpy and cold. What the ... ?

Come to find out, it was this:


OMG! Barf-o-rama!!!

Apparently one of my little anklebiters decided that he didn't want his corn, and stealthily deposited it into the toy box, where it proceeded to morph into the delicious-looking moldfest in the photo above.

Dude, couldn't you just have fed it to the dog?



  


Comments

  1. Sweet corn is my favorite, too. And Iowa's is the best. Especially the peaches and cream variety. I planted that in our garden this year and last year. Like you said, everyone else gets sick of corn on the cob by mid-July though, and I could eat it every day, all year!

    I just realized that I can read your blog from work because you have your own domain name--it's not blocked! Suh-weeeeet!

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  2. Coming from another Iowa girl, I (just last year) learned that you can microwave corn on the cob. Wrap it in a wet paper towel, 2 minutes per cob and perfection. Seriously, you will never go back to boiling water again.

    And OMGosh, you should see some of the stuff I find in Henry's closet!

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  3. Barf me out the door! Out here in the Great Pacific North West we only grow feed corn and have to have the good stuff shipped in. (that i've seen, I could be wrong) But I do love me some sweet corn, you are so right it has to be real butter! But whats with the suger?? Never heard that before...I'll have to try it...and for only 6 min.

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  4. That's gross! But I LOOOOOOOOVE sweet corn! I'm from Indiana and the rest of my family is from IL (quad cities through Rockford). We all love corn :)

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  5. Oh, corn! I love it. That's why summer is the best. I love my corn grilled. I haven't tried adding sugar to the water, good idea though.

    Gross, gross, gross toybox find. It's kinda like finding half a tuna sandwich under the sheets in my boys' bed. Yuck!

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  6. I LOVE corn on the cob with butter too! Now I reaaaly want to go get some corn! Yum! That's hilarious he hid it in the toy box!

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  7. ugh, wonder how long it's been sitting there...

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  8. Mmmm...yummy! I just love finding stuff like that.
    And if it doesn't make its way to the toy box but instead actually gets eaten...it comes out the other end looking just the same as it went in. Now I've made you barf again....

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  9. Now that is creative, you have got to give them that.

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  10. LOL, you never know what's hiding in the depths of a toybox! Aside from the picture, you've made me hungry for more corn-on-the-cob. (And I think adding the sugar to the water is a southern thing.)

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  11. What a waste of a good piece of corn. *Sigh*

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  12. Eww. That's like finding bird carcasses under the bed from the cat. Not pretty.

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  13. i love sweet corn!

    and that is gross! bleh!

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  14. That is just gross. Plain and simple. I think that it should have made it's way to the dinner table so the boys could decide who had to eat it. (i.e. whoever stashed and dashed)

    Of course, that may constitute as cruelty. But whatevs.

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  15. LOVE that title!

    Our corn isn't really in season up here till about August. Sads for me.

    (BTW - my Le Creuset goodies arrived yesterday! Thanks again!)

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  16. Hmmm, you haven't trained your children very well. They should know by now, ALL leftover food goes to mom and mom alone! And corn on the cob is my fave veggie - I pretty much eat it machine gun fast!

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  17. I love corn, too!

    Thank goodness you found that before you got a bug infestation.

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  18. Ick! What a rude surprise!

    But now I' hungry for corn on the cob....

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  19. Eeek gross!

    My kids have been known to throw food in their toy chest too :/ I once found an old orange.

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  20. Please don't feed it to the dog! My wife the veterinarian has had to remove pieces of corn cob stuck in dogs. :(

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