On Wed, 7 Jul 2010 13:28:44 -0700 (PDT), Nancy2
> wrote:

> On Jul 7, 2:18*pm, George Leppla > wrote:
> > On 7/7/2010 2:02 PM, Nancy2 wrote:
> >
> > > I wasn't talking about chunks of corn on the cob - I see those all the
> > > time. * I was talking about cutting kernels off with a knife and fork
> > > (during the meal) and eating them as one cuts them off. *THAT, I've
> > > never heard of.
> >
> > > N.
> >
> > My grandma did that. *She couldn't eat corn on the cob because of her
> > bad dentures.
> >
> > George L
>
> Apparently, I've never known anyone with bad dentures, at least to
> have dinner with, because I still have never heard of it. I would
> think in that case, someone in the kitchen would be thoughtful enough
> to remove the kernels and serve a dish of "regular" corn alongside
> corn on the cob.
>
Poor fitting dentures were quite common way back when. My mother's
father had a full set of dentures, never complained about the fit and
ate corn on the cob... but his son, my uncle was a dentist so I
imagine they were adjusted until they fit. My father's mother didn't
get hers until late in life and they were just a bridge but she
complained constantly about how they didn't fit right. I remember she
had them adjusted more than once, but I guess her dentist wasn't as
good as my grandfather's.


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