July 2, 2006

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Corn Poop (Not for Sensitive Stomachs)

As noted in the "Story" section of this blog on the Writers page, I have this thing for poop humor. I am a mature PhD student who should have grown out of this stage by now, but I can't help but find poo a bit hilarious. And I think there are others out there who, in secret, when home alone, could laugh for hours about details of bowel movements.

So when I was thinking of what to write in my first ever EatFoo post, I couldn't help but move toward thinking about poo - again, perhaps because it rhymes with the name of the blog itself. And my topic even has to do with food! Yes, that food is corn.

Interestingly, corn is one of my favorite foods. Thus, I am very familiar with the existence of corn poop. We all know about it. No matter how much you chew, it comes out looking like it did when you first ate it. Well, Brenna Lorenz has compiled answers to many poop questions, including the mystery of corn poop. Apparently, you chew the inside out and digest it, and the outside remains intact. I guess it's like when you have a piece of hard candy in a wrapper that's not twisted, but sealed on each side, and you kind of pop the candy out the end...the wrapper remains intact, just open on the side to let the insides out. Yup, that's what happens to corn. The wrapper in the corn case is indigestable, and thus appears as little yellow specks in your poo.

Posted by Cara Bohon at July 2, 2006 6:26 PM | Comments (2) | EatFoo 1.0 Posts

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