Truth is, here in Wisconsin and the Midwest, it's been a very hard sell.
But we've sold a lot of them to people on the East Coast and the West Coast. Sothman, who is nothing if not a clever marketer, is glad you asked. During a telephone interview from his home in the Badger State, Sothman explains the inspiration for the Popcorn Fork came to him as he sat in a movie theater years ago. You know they weren't washing their hands, and when they came back in, they were putting their hands all over the chairs. Sothman worried those seats were virtual petri dishes teeming with others' germs, which easily transferred to his own hands.