Microwave popcorn

My mom and dad came to visit us...oh..a month ago. They'd been to the famous Madison farmer's market right on the square. What she brought us was...popcorn...on the cob...with a paper bag.

"I just thought you and the boys would enjoy," she said.

I contemplated how cutting the kernels off the cob would be once they'd hardened. My husband already wonders about my knife skills, although I continue to point out that I have all my original fingers.

"You just put the cob in the paper bag and mic it for a few minutes," she said reading my mind. "According to the lady it works just fine."

I had to ponder that awhile. Being a child of the microwave generation I assumed that microwave popcorn was the reinvention of sliced bread. Not that it was as good as Gramma made on the stove but neither is sliced bread.

So I just had to try this and it works! No oil needed. Granted you have to melt butter in a little bowl afterward but Orville has nothing on this.

Why do people buy microwave popcorn again? To save the 30 seconds it takes to microwave real butter?

Today we microwaved the last cob my mother brought us. My youngest son is allowed to eat a little popcorn (with a lot of butter) on his Ketogenic Diet so he walked around with 'a porcupine popcorn' as he called it and ate it right off the cob.

I wish I had a picture of that.