Monster’s Favorite Snack is Popcorn
Join us on January 19 as we celebrate National Popcorn Day! Buttered, salted, kettled, drizzled with caramel, popcorn is one of those snacks perfect anytime, anywhere. It’s great on the go, in the theater, or in your living room! Just be prepared to dig some of it out of your teeth.
from National Today
It’s time for popcorn to step forward from the food line and get its just deserts…
I joke, but popcorn is a beautiful snack, and is quite versatile. Drizzle some caramel on it and it does make a nice desert.
Popcorn is my go to snack, afternoon or evening, hot or cold, rain or shine. It’s probably the healthiest snack I eat too. It’s not too high calorie and it’s a decent source of dietary fiber.
Monster says, “Popcorn rocks!”
If that’s what Monster is going to say, do you think he’s been eating too many hulls?
Love is sharing your popcorn.
Charles M. Schulz
Make Yourself Some Popcorn
Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show.
David Gerrold – Screenwriter
I’ve lived most of my life in the midwest, so I know corn, and I love popcorn. But, I’m not exactly accustomed to talking much about popcorn, generally I just eat the stuff, so we’ll have to see what I can find to discuss.
Corn was likely first cultivated as a domesticated crop something around 9,000 years ago. But, it wasn’t until 2012 that archaeologists unearthed the earliest known evidence of popcorn. The location was Peru, and the find: 6,700-year-old corn cobs covered with puffed kernels.
It’s said that the wild grass Teosinte was the precursor to corn, that selective breeding did the rest. Of this fact I have no doubt, so it is a failure of my own imagination when I have difficulty picturing that transition.
When I look at Teosinte, and then at a modern hybrid ear of corn, it seems my imagination needs to stretch.
Just in time for National Popcorn Day, a new study says that people in what’s now Peru were eating the snack 2,000 years earlier than thought. Coastal peoples were preparing corn-based foods up to 6,700 years ago, according to analysis of ancient corncobs, husks, tassels, and stalks recently unearthed at the Paredones and Huaca Prieta archaeological sites on Peru’s northern coast.
National Geographic
I’ve always thought that the key to a good sex life is variety. That’s why God gave me two hands. Humans love sex, we need sex, it’s how we connect, it reminds us we’re alive, it’s the third most basic human need, after food and good movie popcorn.
Billy Crystal
What do you want on that popcorn?
Life is a great big beautiful three-ring circus. There are those on the floor making their lives among the heads of lions and hoops of fire, and those in the stands, complacent and wowed, their mouths stuffed with popcorn.
Christopher Hawke
What about toppings (and coatings) on your popcorn?
I generally like my popcorn straight up, lightly salted. I love buttered popcorn but haven’t had any of the heavily buttered stuff since my heart attack. Can you blame me? If I live to be 80, then I’m going back to the buttered stuff, but not a moment before!
I don’t particularly care for caramel corn, it tastes like burnt sugar on stale popcorn. Girl on the other hand, actually likes carmel corn, but has difficulty eating/chewing it.
I never really understood eating “Cracker Jacks” at the ballpark. Does burnt sugar taste better outdoors?
Have you ever pondered the miracle of popcorn? It starts out as a tiny, little, compact kernel with magic trapped inside that when agitated, bursts to create something marvelously desirable. It’s sort of like those tiny, little thoughts trapped inside an author’s head that―in an excited explosion of words―suddenly become a captivating fairy tale!
Richelle E. Goodrich
Popcorn’s Bane – The Microwave
I would like to touch briefly on the topic of microwave popcorn.
I asked girl her opinion of popcorn from the microwave, and she indicated that she was not a fan. She also commented on the microwave popcorn’s flavor, it tastes very “chemical” to her.
I agree all around.
My worst popcorn experience in recent memory came the day of my heart attack. I’m diabetic, and the long day in the cardiac catheter lab caught me more than 24 hours since I last ate. The kitchen was not open, and my blood sugar was low, so they brought me a sugar pill. I’ve never had to take a sugar pill – ever – so I talked the nurse into making me a bag of microwave popcorn.
It was god-awful microwave popcorn. It had an odd chemical taste, which was likely a rancid fat. It was terrible. I could not eat it, and had to say so. I think I ended up with some cheese and crackers from the vending machine downstairs. Compared to the rancid tasting microwave popcorn, the cheese and crackers actually tasted pretty good!
Don’t Forget Buddy “the Wonderdog”
Oh, I do have one more thought to add, it’s time to give Buddy “the Wonderdog” his due.
Buddy loves popcorn. I mean he really loves the stuff. Really, really really!
On a normal day, asking Buddy to sit can be a hit or miss proposition. But, if you have even a single kernel of popcorn, he’ll snap to attention, like a private at inspection with a full-bird colonel. His “sit” is worthy of the Westminster Kennel Club if you’ve got popcorn in your pocket.
No popcorn? You might, maybe, get a sit if you ask multiple times. And the sit you will get looks more like an impertinent adolescent slouching against an alley wall than anything kennel club worthy.
