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eubI got a box in the mail from my grandmother. A very light box. Inside was popcorn, "White Mountain Kettle Corn" to be exact.
I don't know why I like it. It's distinctly sweet, think caramel corn but much less so, and still salty like salted popcorn; this is not a combination I tend to like. Chocolate-covered pretzels, for example, are a waste of both chocolate and pretzels as far as I'm concerned. But I like this stuff. (Dee doesn't particularly.) It's really very tasty. I'll suck down a bowl of it in five minutes, and feel the urge for another. Wait, what am I doing? My god this stuff is addictive.
At this point I fall down the rabbit hole. You see, I'm not the only addict. I google up "kettle corn", and there's dozens of sellers with creepy lines like "the final evolution of popcorn", and a kuro5hin on addiction and how "k-corn" makers rule the earth, and an equipment company with the motto "spreading the addiction".
And www.whitemtnkettlecorn.com is online too, and sells by mail. But while I may in my day have bought some moderately gratuitous things through the mail, I'll be damned if I'll be responsible for the shipping through the mails of a fully popped -- fully inflated -- fully stuffed CHOCK FULL OF AIR -- of a popped box of popcorn.
I don't know why I like it. It's distinctly sweet, think caramel corn but much less so, and still salty like salted popcorn; this is not a combination I tend to like. Chocolate-covered pretzels, for example, are a waste of both chocolate and pretzels as far as I'm concerned. But I like this stuff. (Dee doesn't particularly.) It's really very tasty. I'll suck down a bowl of it in five minutes, and feel the urge for another. Wait, what am I doing? My god this stuff is addictive.
At this point I fall down the rabbit hole. You see, I'm not the only addict. I google up "kettle corn", and there's dozens of sellers with creepy lines like "the final evolution of popcorn", and a kuro5hin on addiction and how "k-corn" makers rule the earth, and an equipment company with the motto "spreading the addiction".
And www.whitemtnkettlecorn.com is online too, and sells by mail. But while I may in my day have bought some moderately gratuitous things through the mail, I'll be damned if I'll be responsible for the shipping through the mails of a fully popped -- fully inflated -- fully stuffed CHOCK FULL OF AIR -- of a popped box of popcorn.
