"Quappelle" means "who calls?" When you call family and friends to a corn roast, they'll come a running.
The important thing about corn is that it be sweet corn, grown for human consumption, rather than feed corn.
Next in importance is its freshness, for the natural sugar in the corn becomes converted to starch as time goes on.
Corn should be eaten before it is 8 hours off the stalk.
The third important feature is that it not be overcooked.
Corn on the cob should be boiled no morethan 10 minutes, so that the edible kernels are still tasty and crunchy, not soggy and tasteless.
Only the kernels need cooking; the cobs are discarded.
Fresh, sweet, shucked corn, boiled 10 minutes, rolled in melted butter, sprinkled with salt and pepper, mounted on corn picks at either end, or held in the fingers, is so deservedly popular that it might almost be called a national dish.