Quote Originally Posted by benchman View Post
i heard there are people somewhere down south cook/eat corn as rice. corn with ulam? ano kaya lasa? though gusto ko rin sya matikman
in the 70s there was this story, apocryphal it was, during the palarong pambansa that cebu province team was not faring any good in marathon and track and field which they lorded over the past years because the team director made the mistake of bringing sacks of rice for his athletes rather their usual staple (corn). his runners were sluggish and tired on the field. they were not getting any medal. they could not get in podium. then one of the coaches had the sense of sending a telegram to their provincial education superintendent to send them corn asap. the story had it that, after eating corn, their athletes ran like roadrunner and took the remaining medals in all categories, and was the eventual grand champion.