My husband is the cook in our family, and with summer coming we really enjoy getting corn on the cob from local farms. Today we were out shopping and he told me he needed a “corn pot”. I thought he was kidding. This is the same man who tried to convince me that in order to fix something on the stove that he needed a “stove wrench”.
So began an afternoon of driving around from store to store in search of the elusive “corn pot”.
At one point I told him that I thought he dreamed up the whole thing. Just buy a big pot that the corn will fit in. He insisted that there was a special “corn pot” and nothing else would do.
Yeah sure.
Luckily he stopped at the gas station and appeased me with a frozen coffee drink.
After no less than 5 stores did not have the mythological “corn pot” we headed home, me mocking, and him insisting they make a special pot for making corn on the cob.
So when we got home, he trudged down to his computer and came back with a print-out from Amazon.com with this for sale:
A pot with a picture of corn on it.
Clearly I was mistaken….
**rolls eyes**
About Kim
I’ve always just used my big stockpot.
What makes the corn pot better than a regular pot?
Do you pay extra for the name corn pot?
I have no idea, but I told him we have a big pot, we can put corn in it and call it a corn pot.
We just had corn with dinner tonight and we don’t have a corn pot!
Sure looks like a stockpot to me…lol
Boys are silly :P
We call those a Lobster Pot in New England! I have one in blue
Looks like your average ru of the mill big pot to me…I bet they make the same pot ad slap pictures of lobsters and pasta on it too.
Hmmmm – looks like a lobster pot to me (only maybe smaller????)
I would like to also see this said “stove wrench” never heard of that either!
You say corn pot, I’m thinking Neti pot. That pot looks like an average pot..I think you are right about it being a gimmick! Tell your husband I have some swampland in Florida…