care for a cup of corn?

There's this weird food phenomenon in Kuwait- the corn stand. We had one in our school cafeteria until the ministry came in and shut down most everything in the canteen. Rumour has it there was some scuffle with the US embassy and the ministry got angry so they came in and closed down most of the food operations on our campus. That's another story.

Anywhere you go, you can find a corn stand. It is usually a small cart, like a moveable hot dog stand or some such thing. The corn stand offers corn heated in a slowcooker, then put in a bowl and mixed with butter, lemon juice, salt, pepper and cayenne pepper, if you like. Then it's scooped into a styrofoam cup and off you go with your cup of corn. It's a great snack to tide you over for a couple hours. I love this stuff for whatever reason. Oh, butter and salt, that's why.

Here is a more elaborate version of a stand, as it's in the cosmopolitan area near the corniche by the Scientific Centre: