NEW YORK — The social media sensation dubbed the “Corn Kid” has done a beautiful thing for Thanksgiving, helping donate thousands of canned goods to those in need this holiday.
Tariq, a 7-year-old from Brooklyn, New York, went viral earlier this year on Recess Therapy professing his unabashed love of corn.
He joined the nonprofit City Harvest to help unload canned vegetables with Green Giant at the Cohen Community Food Rescue Center in New York’s Sunset Park.
The second grader told New York ABC station WABC that he likes corn so much, “because it’s healthy.”
In total, 50,000 cans of corn were packed up for the nonprofit, along with various dried goods and 13,000 turkeys for this year’s holiday meal boxes.
City Harvest works with many local restaurants and markets to save food that would otherwise be tossed out and has rescued close to 75-million pounds of fresh food and delivered it to …