Having spent nearly all of my 31 summers in the midwest, save for a handful in Germany (this will be my first in New York!), corn on the cob has been a pretty big part of my life. Long drives through Missouri and Illinois when I was a kid, visiting family, Six Flags, Lake of the Ozarks, and exciting sites like the childhood homes of Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln, were seemingly endless rides on highways planted right through countless cornfields. Summer gatherings centered around ears of corn, from finding the "least horsey" of the batch, to new ways of eating the stuff without getting half of it caught in your teeth. Oh, if only we had one of these back in the day, maybe we wouldn't have spent so many hours flossing out corn with sticks of hey after dinner:
It zips kernels right off the cob cleanly and effortlessly! No more corny teeth!! No more messing with a knife, oh, how dangerous. And don't forget to pair it with this. Now I just have one question: do they have corn on the cob in the Northeast??
[$12.75, Amazon]
