On this episode of Let’s Get Real, “If You Have Time to Listen to This, You Have Time to Make Popcorn“… I go way back in time to visit my pretend BFF, Laura Ingalls at her Little House on the you-know-where…Seems that back then in Laura’s day, folks didn’t spend their days sitting on their tushies grazing on Foodiness™ snack foods and sucking on sippy cups of sugary water. They had actual, real work to do. And no internet. Yet oddly, no snack food products were to be found for at least another 50 years…Funny, because they were burning up gazillions more calories than us, and you’d think they would have needed to be cramming fistfuls of cheezy poofies and veggie doodly-doos into their mouths full of crooked, yellow teeth all day long for sustenance. But according to my thorough research (watching TV) the only real snack food they had was popcorn, and they had to MAKE it themselves! There were no whale oil-powered microwaves, yet.
Popcorn’s been eaten in the Americas since ancient times, and almost every day since then at my house. So come with me down the rabbit hole, past the museum of outdated, obsolete, popcorn making technology, and into my popcorn lab, as we go deep into the Foodiness-filled realm of the new world’s oldest snack. Don’t forget your dental floss…