i have these memories of escaping bulgaria into romania and seeing so many corncobs stacked up that seemed to be something to do with local agriculture and i decided it must be to feed to pigs, because in bulgaria and romania, pigs are the staple meat animal
i saw a lot of corn in slovenia too, even ate a bunch of the not quite dried out cobs when i was starving as i ascended the nanos plateau
probably saved my life, when i went back down and got severely fatigued while temps were super low