Since a small ear of corn only has 85 calories, eating an entire cob won't ruin your diet. A small ear of boiled, yellow corn is about 5.5 to 6.5 inches long. A medium-sized ear of yellow corn goes up to 99 calories, while a large ear has 113 calories.
Foghorn Leghorn's accent and style are based on the long-running radio character Senator Claghorn (who appeared in It's a Joke, Son! (1947) voiced by radio comedian Kenny Delmar.
George B. Hutchinson, author of The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White, speaking about James Weldon Johnson's way of incorporating black vernacular speech and styles of black preaching in his book God's Trombones (1927).