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Default Are we (USA) the only ones who eat corn on the cob?



"l, not -l" > wrote in message
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> On 8-Jul-2010, sf > wrote:
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>> On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:00:41 +0900, Orpheus99 >
>> wrote:
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>> > Do you eat it side-to-side like a typewriter or around the cob? Do you
>> > 'clean' the cob or are there still sporadic kernels left behind?

>>
>> That's a good survey question!
>>
>> I eat mine from left to right and no kernel (or partial kernel) is
>> left behind.

>
> While in the Army, serving in Vietnam, we had a rule - no man left
> behind -
> unless he was an officer. The concensus was, you always left a Colonel
> behind 8-)


So, was that the errr concesus......

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