1. I'm a person of the female persuasion.
2. depends.

If it's corn on a stick, I tend to go round & round. If it's corn with a thingamabob on each end one of those nifty special corn on the cob dish thingies where I can have more butter to dip it in, I probably will chomp typewriter style--after taking off my glasses, & hopefully with a lovely soon to be butter spotted linen napkin tied round my neck!