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.
A leghorn is a breed of chicken, and foghorn describes the character's loud, overbearing voice. According to Leonard Maltin the character's voice was also patterned after a hard-of-hearing West Coast-only radio character from the 1930s, known simply as The Sheriff, on a radio program called Blue Monday Jamboree.