Well, somebody did! 

I have always used heating pads for sore muscles or cramps. When I moved in with Steve I had a bout with cramps that wouldn't go away and my heating pad was nowhere to be found. I was clearly struggling when Steve said: Want a Corn Coddler?

To which I replied: Huh?

Come to find out, Corn Coddlers are the best soothing devices ever! And apparently folx from the Midwest know their comforting, corn-based devices!

It's a pillow filled with feed corn that you heat up in the microwave for a couple of minutes and you get a half an hour or more of comforting, moldable, steamy heat exactly where you want it. 

So different from those plastic, plug-in-the-wall heating pads I had been using forever, you can sit anywhere and it molds to your body perfectly!

When a close friend of ours was heading into surgery, we decided we'd make one just for her. She chose the fabric and we made it happen.

And now she's using it too! 

She's from New England, so she had never heard of a Corn Coddler either. And when I Google Corn Coddler, I don't get anything like this awesome heating pad, so I'm just wondering if this was just a Steve and his family thing...

In any case, these are awesome and I totally recommend them for muscle aches, cramps, or just some general huggy-based comfort.