In Central America and Mexico, an ear of corn, on or off the plant, is called “elote” (from the Nahuatl elotitutl, meaning tender cob). This term is also used in Mexican and Central American communities in the USA
In the Southern corner of South America (Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Paraguay and the Andean State the term for elote is choclo, which comes from the quechua word chuqllu. In Valenzuela...
