The thing here that has me wondering is a raw corn kernel being posited as a Nork evildoing. The corn kernel is in the shape I’d expect it to be; it goes right thru the GI tract coming out pretty much looking the same as when it went in.
I’m trying to figure out if it is the “raw” part they found really awful. A lot of people eat raw corn kernels, usually a bunch of ‘em, in fact. They are edible.
Maybe I’m missing something?
There’s no doubt the guy was malnourished and in bad health due to diet, terrible living conditions and bad treatment, but raw corn kernels in & of themselves are not sinister killers.
Young immature corn, yes could reasonably be eaten raw. After corn reaches maturity it hardens and becomes difficult to bite off the cob.
I have never known anyone to do it routinely. The only instances I have ever heard of it being done is stories my mother told me of hobos during the depression stealing corn out of her parent’s fields and eating it as they walked the train tracks next to their fields.
A few older farm folk are the only people I know that have ever said that they have eaten raw corn. And they told me you have to catch the corn at just the right time to make it palatable.
Of course modern hybridized sweet corn probably has a longer ‘sweet spot’ for eating it raw. It would be interesting to know if NORKs have stolen many of our hybridized grain seeds.
The CIA should grab those corn seeds and do DNA test on then to see if they are Monsanto or ADM corn hybrids.
They are sinister if a few kernels from one cob [if that] is the only thing in his stomach and the only thing in his intestines are worms. Maybe with his ride-alongs eating the corn, he may be one guy from whom corn does not escape intact.