Kate wrote:

> It seems that way. I tried googling it this morning.
> I found reference to corn on the cob done up in a Mexican
> or other fashion but that was being sold in this country
> not in the country associated with the "flavorings". I know
> many countries have corn on the cob but can't find any evidence
> of them actually eating it off the cob the way we do here.
> There a Columbian stew that has chunks of corn on the cob in
> it but I have no idea how they actually eat that when they
> come to it. It seems quite messy to pick it up and eat it
> the way we do corn on the cob, but then how would you be able
> to eat it with a fork and knife? And even if the do pick it
> up and eat it off the cob, it doesn't count since it's not a
> whole ear.

I know that Mexicans and Peruvians eat corn on the cob, but Peruvian corn is
a bit different than the corn we get in the USA. (It's not from Monsanto,
for one thing!)

Bob