We had corn on the cob last night with dinner and up until then I thought that there was really only two ways to ways to eat it.

The first method involves eating the coring around the cob. You start at either the right or left end, eat one complete circle around the cob, then move right or left to start the next circle. This is the round the cob method.

Second, and this is the method I favor, I call the typewriter method. You start at one end and then eat clear across the cob until you get to the other side. Rotate the cob and repeat.

Alex introduced me to the third method last night. Complete and utter randomness is the only way to describe his method. A bite from the middle, then rotate slightly and take a bit from the left. Turn it the other direction, find a suitable patch of corn, take another bite. This method seemed to work well for a while but then he ended only having a patches of corn left that he had trouble getting to. His ingenious solution to this problem, get another cob of corn and let Mom finish the half eaten one.