You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?
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Answer: Corn on the cob
The trick here is that "inside" and "outside" swap meaning halfway through, and your brain doesn't notice the switch until it's too late. First you shuck the husk away and cook the cob with its kernels still attached — that husk was the outside, tossed before cooking. Then, once it's roasted or boiled, you eat the kernels right off the cob, and the cob itself, now the leftover "inside," gets thrown away. So the outside becomes garbage, the inside becomes dinner, and then a brand-new inside becomes garbage again. It sounds like a contradiction only because we assume "inside" and "outside" refer to the same layers the whole time. Corn on the cob quietly has two skins to shed — the husk and the cob — and the riddle just relabels them at the perfect moment to trip you up.
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