"Germans use the word 'fressen' to describe the act of an animal feeding, as opposed to 'essen' for a human eating. Eating corn from the cob is pure 'fressen'." Boutard, Anthony. "Beautiful Corn: America's Original Grain from Seed to Plate". 2012. Gauss, Hilbert, Noether, etc. Not a kernel of truth to the rumor that they ate corn, much less on the cob. --- Joke about German cooking and corn: "My German grandmother boiled corn on the cob for 24 hours, and it was still hard in the middle." At 01:09 PM 1/16/2019, rcs@xmission.com wrote:
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--- Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 08:20:10 -0500 Subject: Math preference / corn-eating correlation debunked? From: Thomas Colthurst <thomaswc@gmail.com>
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with no statistical significance in the difference according to chi-squared.
-Thomas C