cob
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Some are molded into corn on the cob, celery and rhubarb shapes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
Corn on the cob may not be cheap, nor will corn-fed beef.
From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2026
Ribs, hot dogs, fried chicken, corn on the cob, watermelon slices.
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2025
Pedersen broke down her options while sitting on a pinkish firepit and curved bench made from cob.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2025
It’s seafood night, and Mom is making her special crab boil: crab legs, corn on the cob, andouille sausage, crawfish, jumbo shrimp, and small red potatoes.
From "Watch Us Rise" by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan
You can caramelize the corn in a skillet, but if you prefer it with a late-summer-smoky-char, cook the shucked cobs on the grill before cutting off the kernels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
It looks like charcoal, but the black briquettes are actually made from plant waste: millet and sesame stalks, palm fronds and cobs.
From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026
Above, a large skylight is adorned with hundreds of suspended corn cobs, their illuminated forms offering one of the few sources of light in the dark and moody, monochromatic space.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2024
"Some of the horses were standing in water - our big cobs were up to their knees in it," she said.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2024
That’s a perfectly safe strategy in Mexico’s mild climate, but in Canada a disastrous one that would guarantee the plant’s being killed by autumn frosts before it had produced any mature corn cobs.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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