Talk:Corncob

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what part of the plant is this?[edit]

Can't we have this mentioned for all foods eg carrot is a root so this should be mentioned on the page, similarly for this food too (cob). Charles.2345 (talk) 08:40, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ureferenced and WRONG[edit]

One sentence in the first part of the article gets it right. The cob is the inner part of an ear of corn. The Captions on the photos are/were wrong. They are not corn cobs. They show ears of corn. --Aflafla1 (talk) 19:41, 9 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Ping User:Aflafla1, finally fixed the photo-captions, per WP:NORUSH. :-) Also found some sources for about half of the industrial-usage-section, please see below. 75.108.94.227 (talk) 13:35, 28 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The images I added were different from the ones Aflafla1 was questioning. — Earwig ^talk 20:19, 28 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I figured. :-) Also, I'm not positive that every dialect of English uses "corn cob" in exactly the same fashion... I have only ever heard the ones with kernels-still-attached called ears of corn, or more simply, corn. But at least one of the refs I found below, spoke of corncobs when speaking of the kernels-of-corn-still-attached-to-the-cob state of the plant. Maybe it is a regional variation, or maybe Canadian/British/Australian dialect uses the terminology slightly differently? In any case, I think the photos and captions are now reasonably non-wrong, at present. Good work. 75.108.94.227 (talk) 07:09, 30 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Looks fine to me. I don't have a reference, nor did I add the statement, but I will confirm that corn cobs can be used as a mild abrasive. It is quite suitable for removing lichen from stonework. Aflafla1 (talk) 01:05, 31 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

sources[edit]

These are just a smattering. There are at least half a dozen hits on google scholar with triple-digit cite-counts about the various uses of corn cobs, industrial and agricultural.

p.s. As a linguistic note, corncobs are the part which is left after you pull the ears off the cornstalks, husk them of surrounding leaves, and remove the corn-kernels. You end up with a short somewhat-thick dowel-shaped object, which has a "foam-filled" central cylindrical core. The cob is not edible, except as a fiber-additive to cattle feed or somesuch. Humans eat the corn-kernels. When eating corn on the cob, the leftover thing inside the corn-kernels, is the corn cob. 75.108.94.227 (talk) 13:27, 28 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]