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5	[[caption-width-right:350:OM NOM NOM NOM DING]]
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7	You've probably seen it during UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation. Here, a character eats a strip starting at one end of the corncob, along its long axis (takka takka takka), reaches the other end (ding!), rotates the corncob a few degrees and returns to the starting end (kachunk!), repeat. This action [[DontExplainTheJoke mimics typing on an old-fashioned mechanical typewriter]] with moving carriage. They then continue in a different spot.
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9	This trope [[ForgottenTrope doesn't seem to be used anymore]] (and if ever used today, kids would ask [[WhatAreRecords what the sounds are]]).
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11	Compare RapidFireNailBiting, which may also use a typewriter sound effect, and BuzzsawJaw, where the sound effect is (or at least can be) a buzzsaw. See also RhythmTypewriter.
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13	Mind you, [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant this trope is not about]] [[ExtremeOmnivore people eating typewriters]].
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15	!!Examples:
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19	[[folder:Advertisements]]
20	* Walkers used to run adverts for their "French fries" (basically long, thin potato-based snacks) where they were eaten like this (though without the ding).
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23	[[folder:Film -- Animation]]
24	* Templeton does this in the fairground scene of ''WesternAnimation/CharlottesWeb''.
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27	[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
28	* Rare live-action example in Creator/CharlieChaplin's ''Film/ModernTimes'', where Chaplin is strapped into an automated eating gizmo that presents the corn this way.
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31	[[folder:{{Literature}}]]
32	* In ''TheGirlsGuideToHuntingAndFishing'', the narrator says her older brother normally eats corn on the cob this way, but the first time he brings a girlfriend home from college he's suddenly too adult to do it in front of her.
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35	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
36	* A downplayed example occurs in an episode of the 1975 version of ''WesternAnimation/FilmationsGhostbusters''. Kong asks Spencer to grab him a hot dog on his way to the office. After being given his hot dog, Kong uses a typewriter to help him put mustard on it.
37	* An episode of ''Happy Endings'' concludes with Alex proudly displaying a corn cob on which she's spelled out Dave's name.
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40	[[folder:Theatre]]
41	* One of the many wacky inventions introduced by comedian Ed Wynn in his stage shows was a typewriter reconstructed for eating corn on the cob, complete with carriage return bell.
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44	[[folder:Visual Novels]]
45	* In ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney 2: Resolve'', Juror No. 5 in "Return of the Great Departed Soul" eats several cobs of corn while making typewriter sounds.
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48	[[folder:Web Animation]]
49	* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': In Pop's Barbecue Smoochie, the "Corn" button gives Pop a corn cob that he eats this way.
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52	[[folder:Webcomics]]
53	* [[Webcomic/{{Nedroid}} Beartato]] demonstrates, [[http://nedroid.com/2012/07/summer-corn-guide/ complete with DING!]]
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56	[[folder:Western Animation]]
57	* ''WesternAnimation/OutOfTheInkwell'' features a literal example of this trope with the corn being attached to a typewriter.
58	* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', Wakko did this once, complete with Leroy Anderson's "The Typewriter" as accompaniment.
59	* One [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Porky Pig]] cartoon when Porky was a farmer had chickens getting into his cornfield and doing this.
60	* Used in the Westernanimation/ClassicDisneyShorts ''Mickey's Trailer'', ''Donald's Cousin Gus'' and ''Pueblo Pluto'' (the latter case used with Pluto biting on a buffalo bone).
61	* Franchise/ScoobyDoo has done this several times with corn on the cob.
62	* Tom does this with a rib in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry''.
63	* Happens on the ''WesternAnimation/SanjayAndCraig'' episode "Tufflips' Tales of Terror" during the "Haüs of Vings" short when the duo eats the roof of said "haüs".
64	* In the opening sequence of ''WesternAnimation/TinyPlanets'', one of the protagonists eats a corn cob like this before setting out on the day's adventure.
65	* The Nazi goat ("A Beowulf in sheep's clothing") in the WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck cartoon "Scrap Happy Daffy" does this to a pile of tin cans in Daffy's scrap yard.
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