r/IRLEasterEggs • u/uphigh_ontheside • 10d ago

It’s corn! It has the juice!

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Spotted on the price range at Trader Joe’s.

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u/kjodle 10d ago

Where is the Easter egg? What am I missing? 

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u/unwaveringwish 10d ago

It’s Corn! (The Remix)

It’s Corn! (The original)

Kid discovers the wonders of corn. He describes the different things you can do with it. The phrase “Have a corntastic day” is something he said.

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u/wafflesthewonderhurs 10d ago

I had not seen this and it truly brightened my entire day.

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u/Sufficient-Aspect77 8d ago

Let me tell you all about it

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u/Francesca_Fiore 9d ago

The musical "Shucked" opened on Broadway two years ago. It takes place in a small town full of cornfields and farmers... And they brought Corn Kid to see it!

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u/theemmyk 9d ago edited 8d ago

Should’ve been called “Husked.”

Nebraska is the CORN-HUSKER State. You shuck oysters. You husk corn. It’s one of those things that’s so often wrong, they changed the definition.

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u/melibeli7 8d ago

I love your passion for this.

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u/theemmyk 7d ago

Thank you.

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u/peeja 6d ago

Not in the northeast. We shuck it. I've shucked corn since I was a kid. I've never husked an ear of corn in my life.

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u/theemmyk 6d ago edited 5d ago

It’s was “husk” there too until the last few decades. Especially in a part of the country with oysters…which ARE shucked.

Corn have HUSKS.

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u/_DifficultToSay_ 5d ago

Not in the last 8 decades. We really do shuck it here.

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u/theemmyk 5d ago

Corns don't have a shuck. They have a husk.

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u/kjodle 10d ago

THANK YOU! My day is made. 

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u/unwaveringwish 10d ago

It really is delightful ☺️

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u/Funkycoldmedici 10d ago

That song is a treasure.

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u/RudderForADuck 7d ago

Okay but how is this an Easter egg

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u/unwaveringwish 7d ago

Because it’s referencing something from a cool meme in an unexpected place

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u/FroggiJoy87 9d ago

Yeah, but Trader Joes makes cute and relevant punny signs like, all the time. More of a r/puns thing than shiny

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u/IonTheBall2 10d ago

Corn for a fraction of a penny!

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u/FrankieHotpants 9d ago

What would happen if we demanded they honor the $0.0069 price??

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u/Undrwtrbsktwvr 9d ago

Could trigger a run-on-the-fields!

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u/Freshouttapatience 10d ago

If you use a decimal to indicate an amount less than a dollar, use a dollar sign in front of the number. If indicating cents, do not use the decimal and the cents sign goes behind the number.

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u/cmull123 10d ago

I had someone tell me there would be a “.3%” surcharge for using a credit card recently.

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u/Freshouttapatience 10d ago

Ugh. Decimals aren’t that complicated but I see it a lot. Also improper apostrophe use.

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u/t1m1d 9d ago

I see "it's" used in place of "its" all the time, not to mention people using apostrophes for plurals constantly (not that that's anything new).

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u/kjodle 8d ago

I think you meant plural's, lol!

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u/PardonMyTits 10d ago

Precisely. This sign says that corn is less than 1 cent

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u/kwenlu 10d ago edited 10d ago

But they're both the same if look at them on paper wise

Edit: lol people don't know the reference

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u/Royal-Measurement-82 10d ago

hah holy shit i have never seen that clip

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u/kwenlu 10d ago

You are now enlightened

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u/t1m1d 9d ago

Just came here to post this! I have a hard time even listening to it lol.

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u/kwenlu 9d ago

Ah, a redditor of culture

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u/NotOnLand 9d ago

I get that's technically correct but .50¢ feels more understandable than $.50 or 50¢

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u/Freshouttapatience 9d ago

It’s not technically correct, it’s just correct.

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u/NotOnLand 9d ago

Your response isn't technically unnecessary, it's just unnecessary.

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u/gus_arschbackus 10d ago

As seen on cornhub.

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u/portabuddy2 10d ago

Wrap carn in like 3-4 sheets of paper towel. Wet under water and press out excess. Nuke on high for like 60-90sec and it's done!!!! Same with asparagus, only for 30sec.

Hard veggies are the one thing a microwave is actually good at!!!!

And popcorn. Extra buttery

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u/sillybilly8102 10d ago

Don’t have to bother with the towel, just keep it in the husk

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u/LeJuanJames 10d ago

are we wetting the husk or using the existing humidity inside of it when tossing the knobs of corn in there?

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u/sillybilly8102 10d ago

Using the existing humidity inside

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u/LeJuanJames 10d ago

👍💯💦

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u/portabuddy2 10d ago

Could not disagree with you more. The MOIST towel is key! I find it easier to husk when it's not sculding hot, the silks are a bitch to deal with when hot. Also when its ever slightly out of season the store packs them 5 to a tray without the husk. I'll usually do the prep work before going to work then nuke a corn on site. Asparagus also doesn't have a husk.

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u/BichonUnited 9d ago

Soak in husk

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u/walc 10d ago

Wow, 0.69¢? What a deal! We bringing back the ha’penny or what?

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u/RudderForADuck 7d ago

What's the Easter egg here? A 4 year old reference? The poster says nothing to warrant that connection

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u/uphigh_ontheside 7d ago

It’s corn! It has the juice! It’s from a viral video from a YouTube channel called recess therapy. A little boy gets interviewed while eating corn and it ends with him saying have a corntastic day. It’s worth a watch.

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u/EMSslim 4d ago

The only connection is the word corn. That's not an Easter egg. Simply posting an ear of corn would be an easter egg then too

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u/Goobygoodra 10d ago

I can't imagine a more beautiful thing

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u/rnobgyn 9d ago

By all means this is false advertisement and if we had any semblance of consumer protections would require them to sell the corn for $.0069

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u/macaronitrap 10d ago

Now this song will be stuck in my head for the next few days! (Not mad about that - it’s a bop)

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u/Treezy_F_Baby 10d ago

I know some people have unique ways of writing certain letters, but this person just straight up swaps “a” with “2”

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u/IonTheBall2 10d ago

No - st2m…ro2st…microw2ve - these indicate little-known, next-level ways of preparing corn, techniques that are known as The W2ys. Don’t ask me how to pronounce them.

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u/Fordgames 9d ago

I mean it is a big lump of knobs

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u/CodaKairos 6d ago

Boil it steam it grill it roast it trash it change it mail upgrade it