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Illustration for riddle: You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. — Can you figure out this riddle?

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

Corn

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!

Common Wrong Answers

“Potato”

While you might peel a potato (throwing away the skin) and cook the inside, you do not eat the outside afterward; instead, you typically eat the cooked inside.

“Egg”

With an egg, you throw away the shell (the outside) and cook the inside, but you don't throw away the inside after eating the outside; you eat the inside instead.

“Watermelon”

In the case of watermelon, you eat the inside (the fruit) and throw away the rind (the outside), which is the opposite of the riddle's process.

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