You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?

Why this works

This riddle plays with the different parts of corn and how we consume it. When you "throw away the outside," you're referring to the husk of the corn, which we remove before cooking. After cooking, we eat the kernels on the outside, but the cob—the inside part—gets discarded. The clever twist lies in how the roles of "inside" and "outside" change depending on the stage of preparation and consumption!