Evening star., 1925-09-12
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

country (there wasn't any other kind
had been melting near the fire. Now
the bowl. brimming with fluffy pop
corn, was stirred up, as the salt was
sprinkled in lightly, then the butter
poured over all.
Trickle. trickle, went the butter.
down over the puffed grains, between
the mountains, into the valleys of de.
| liciousness.
Help yourselves, children" said
| Somehow we regard that early init
| alton into popcorn as one of the real
benefits of our lives.
We hope we never become so sue
cessful and dignifled that we cannot
get simple, genuine pleasure out of
eating a bag Of hot buttered popcorn
now and then.
1t must be terrible to be President
and scarcely dare to go along the
street eating out of a buttery bag.
| Think of the sensation it would create.
president eats popcorn out of bag
gets butter on fingers" all the papers
would say.
Whereas you and I, dear readers,
can eat our popcorn as we please and
nobody cares a whoop. If any one
says anything, it is probably only
Don't get that bag on the table," or
You had better wash your hands
now"
OF course, we cannot advocate hot
buttered popcorn for an everyday diet.
AS said before. 1t has little nourish-
| ment and would become a glut on the
market as a daily diet. Now and then,
however, II has no equal in all the
lists of foodstuffs.
Some there are who favored pop
corn coated with sugar, or sirup, and
against them we say nothing. AS for
US, we want it covered with melted
butter, the more butter the better, and
the better butter the better, too
Then we want corn that pops clear
up, all the way through. all around,
| and leaves no hard kernel. What we
liked particularly about the popcorn
man that came along our street was
that he had good popcorn. and popped
II all the way through. A slight shake
of the bag, now and then, and the
largest morsels kept coming to the
top The repetition of this process
| finally left only a dozen or so hard
grains at the nethermost bottom of
the bag.
All. that bag just suited u.s. 1t was
warm to our left hand, with a smear
OF butter showing through, so that we
knew we would get the buttery taste
at the bottom Of the bag, as we'll as at
the top.
That is something you have to look
out for. Some of the popcorn men
have a trick of pouring butter on the
top of the popcorn, but getting pre-
cious little at the bottom, so that you
end up eating dry. unbuttered corn.
1t is like drinking a second cup of
coffee after the cream pitcher is dry.
The art Of eating buttered popcorn,
while not as exacting as the consump-
ton of grapefruit, offers somewhat the
same difficulties, only instead Of
squirting juice all over you one is
very likely to drop a nice huttered
grain right square on his clean shirt.
Here is the way to do it: Hold the
bag firmly in the left hand and with
the right open the mouth of the bag
to its greatest dimension.
Then make a triangle with the
thumb and first two fingers of the
right hand. Insert this triangle into
the bag and pull up several delicious
grains.
Do not be q hog
Too many grains, seized in your
eagerness, will result in the very
catastrophe you are trying to avoid
and will bring upon your innocent,
greedy head dire warnings as to ruin
ing the carpet, the waxed floor and
your state Of health.
Eat rapidly, though. Remember
that popcorn is a great scourer Of the
system. as we'll as cleaner of the teeth,
merits of this truly great American
Itch