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National Corn on the Cob Day 2025
Something to make traversing this Hump 🐪 Day a bit sweeter, today is National Corn on the Cob Day. How can you beat that?
Vivid Memories
When I was growing up, we went to Musikfest every year, and I have vivid memories of the corn on the cob. I’m going for the concert, but I’m really going for the corn. ~Sabrina Carpenter
Who among us doesn’t have fond memories of sweet summer corn?
Whether it was at a picnic, birthday party or just for dinner, your day always got a bit better when you had some corn on the cob to look forward to.
As much as I detest 🌞 Summer 🔥, I grudgingly admit that I do love the classic flavors of the season.
Fresh fruit, fried chicken, watermelon, iced tea and corn on the cob are seasonal treats that make the heat almost bearable.
There is also something inherently 🌞 Summery 🔥 about things like macaroni salad and potato salad.
I don’t consider eating them during my more favored seasons, perhaps because I’m enjoying something warm in the lovely cool weather.
Even so, I can still eat a cob of corn or two in the most frigid depths of January or February without a second thought.
Corn on the cob is like sunshine on a plate.
Add Milk?
The Best Way to Cook Corn on the Cob!
I don’t know if that’s actually the best way to boil corn, but she’s awfully jolly.
I wouldn’t have thought to add milk to the water. Perhaps it brings out the sweetness of the corn?
The most interesting thing about corn on the cob is how people choose to eat it.
Do you eat rows of corn around the circumference of the cob or do you eat it from point to stump?
Do you eat it on the cob or do you cut it off into the contiguous strips of compacted kernels?
Butter or just a sprinkle of salt?
The important thing about corn on the cob is how it brings a table together.
You can’t be in a bad mood eating corn on the cob. It is inherently smile-inducing.
Creativity on the Cob
I needed a capo – a clamp to hold down the strings – so my daddy made me one out of a corn on the cob and a rubber band. ~Glen Campbell
That’s certainly a creative use of a cob. I always thought the corncob pipes were amusingly creative.
Of course, we don’t smoke pipes anymore. It turns out that inhaling burning plant vapors is bad for you. Who knew?
That was something I remember from childhood. My dad smoked a pipe at home and we used to buy him aromatic tobacco blends for birthdays and holidays.
Fortunately, he quit the habit once we learned that it was tremendously bad for you and I never took it up.
Even so, I still have the image of J.R.R. Tolkien from the back of my copies of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. The author photo showed him with a big Sherlock Holmes style pipe.
It’s actually a wonder I never took up smoking a pipe since it had such a positive meaning in my younger years.
I suppose that if I am ever able to set aside the data conversion and become a full-time author, I may get a pipe for photos, perhaps a bubble pipe.
While I find corncob pipes comically charming, I find the pipes with the little faces carved to be artistically fascinating.
It’s a bit odd to be so attached to an implement for self-poisoning, but there have been so many emotional touchpoints in my life associated with pipes.
I sometimes find myself tucking a pen into my mouth like it was a cigarette. Most times it’s because I have need of a pen but my hands are busy.
Honestly, I could easily see myself typing with a pipe in my mouth. Not with lit tobacco, to be sure, but I can still imagine that being something that helps me to focus while I’m writing.
Weird, isn’t it? Why should having a pipe in my mouth do anything but make my lips tired?
I can certainly say from experience that having a pen stuck between my teeth, wiggling it like the Penguin’s cigarette holder and doing a low-key Burgess quacking laugh tends to center me.
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Hey, I’m writing a superhero series. You really can’t begrudge me a Penguin laugh.
With a pipe? Who knows?
My associations with pipes are more in the quiet concentration department.
Who knows? Maybe Kelly will buy me a pipe just to make me be quiet…
The Hobbit An Unexpected Journey – Bilbo meets Gandalf
That’s all for today. See you back on Saturday for the American Flag…