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Examples

  • Maybe the Mexican attachment for the white elote is alma.

    Corn on the cob in Mexico 2003

  • Order either an elote, which is corn on the cob smothered with mayonnaise, fresh white cheese, chile powder, and lime, or an esquite, which is corn in a cup with the same concoction.

    Brave New Traveler 2009

  • So when I smell a freshly made corn tortillas baking on a comal, or taste the wonders of a perfectly made tamale, or the crunch of a taco filled with carne deshebrada or carnitas, or buy a steaming "elote" covered with butter, or lime and chile, I want to thank all those ancient ones who slowly and methodically engineered the little wild grass into what it is today.

    **Seeds of Grass** 2003

  • Sweet Corn Ice Cream In Mexico, it's common for ice cream vendors to take advantage of corn's natural sweetness by making helado de elote, or corn ice cream.

    Gold Rush Sara Dickerman 2011

  • This is what we had today for our comida which started with a homemade sopa de fideo and also frijoles con elote.

    Another wonderful meal, muy mexicana 2009

  • This is what we had today for our comida which started with a homemade sopa de fideo and also frijoles con elote.

    Another wonderful meal, muy mexicana 2009

  • This is what we had today for our comida which started with a homemade sopa de fideo and also frijoles con elote.

    Another wonderful meal, muy mexicana 2009

  • This is what we had today for our comida which started with a homemade sopa de fideo and also frijoles con elote.

    Another wonderful meal, muy mexicana 2009

  • This is what we had today for our comida which started with a homemade sopa de fideo and also frijoles con elote.

    Another wonderful meal, muy mexicana 2009

  • This is what we had today for our comida which started with a homemade sopa de fideo and also frijoles con elote.

    Another wonderful meal, muy mexicana 2009

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  • spotted this in looking up fire corn emojis.

    Grilled corn.

    August 30, 2017

  • corn-on-the-cob

    January 6, 2019