The other day my wife noticed I eat corn-on-the-cob spiral-like...

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...whilst she eats it like a typewriter carriage.
48 years together.

I just finished eating another 2 cobs today, and I noticed I switched it up between the styles, sometimes during the same nibbling!

I'm doomed now that I'll never eat a cob without thinking about typewriters and the like....

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Team typewriter all the way!

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Of course, but, then I wondered, how many people know what this means? It's not like typewriters are a common thing anymore.

EDIT: Apparently, yes. Some GenZ are "rediscovering" typewriters. In the same way they're interested in film photography.

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Okay. We're doing a spreadsheet. Are you eating your corn by columns or by rows?

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What's a spreadsheet? You mean like the way you scroll TikTok vs. the way you swipe people on Tinder?

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Spiral -like: A1, B2, C3, D4, etc ... Until excel runs out and it wraps up to A2, B3, C4 and so on.

I wonder what percentage of Excel users have ever been to the end of the Excel spreadsheet? Or knows they even have an end? If you've never been you're not missing much, but I won't blame you if you get bitten by curiosity over what's at the final frontier.

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next time you know she is watching, eat it chaotic evil style. bite in random places with gumption.

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does nobody throat the cob and suck all the kernels off anymore?

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Typewriter style never felt natural to me.

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Sausage team, where you at?!

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none are safe from the spiral

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... there are people who don't spiral it?

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Pedants & mathemeticians helix it.

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I don't know what spiral means in this context, but I think I eat it in columns. Bite the middle, finish that column up and down, move over to the next column and repeat

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Perhaps you can compromise and chomp a thread into it.

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