Things I Love About Nairobi: The Corn Cob Mystery

This post is the first in a series I will be calling "Things I Love About Nairobi". The corn cob mystery has been troubling me ever since the first week I arrived in Kenya. Everywhere you look, there are corn cobs laying on the ground. You can imagine the ankle rolling hazard this becomes in such a dense city. With so many corn cobs, I started to look around for people actually eating corn on the cob. To this day, I have seen hundreds of corn on the cob sellers but only one person actually eating corn on the cob. One person, hundreds of corn cobs. Are corn cobs some sort of ancient styrofoam, an accumulation of this one person's habit over the years? Is there an underground, corn-on-the-cob-eating fight club that only takes place in the alleyways and shadows where I can't see? Whatever is really behind this mystery, it is just one of the intricacies that I love about this city.