Popcorn Kernal Expansion
Years ago, maybe 1989 or 1990, I worked in a movie theater and came up with a process to be used in conjunction with our regular system for popping popcorn. This process would increase the sized of the popped kernal by 50% or so and require very little in the way of setup or equipment. So what ever happened to that idea?
I only remembered it after seeing a 1978 Orville Redenbacher commercial where he compared the finished volume of his popped kernals to that of another popcorn company's.
My system basically involved a caddy attatched to the side of a popper holding 2 kernal containers. ther is only a slight slowdown in the popping process and training takes all of two minutes for the process to be explained to someone already familiar with using a popper.
This idea is probably only interesting to movie theater geeks and popcorn affecianados. But with rising corn prices it might be an option for movie theaters to reduce their overhead on popcorn prices while providing the same volume for the customer.
Over the years there have been many inventions or inovations, and I'm not tooting my own horn, some may have been useless, but the ones that could have been put into production never saw the light of day beyond sketches in notebooks. Notebooks lost or resigned to storage boxes, packed away like the arc in the last scene of Indiana Jones. Some were drunkenly thrown into bonfires or stolen by ex-girlfriends the only remanants of the lost ideas are forgotten conversations with friends.
Part of the reason this has been weighing heavily on my mind is that the other day in the book store I came across a book in the science section titled simply Hydrogen.
The first book I ever wrote was called hydrogen. It was a nonfiction look at the many interesting aspects and uses of this exciting atom.
I loved that first book of mine and used to think about it the way we remember losing our virginity. I couldn't even pick the book up off the shelf even to read the dust jacket. So I stood there in the science section of Borders looking like I was waiting for the short bus to take me back to "camp".
Popcorn Orville Redenbacher Hydrogen Inventions Chris Miller Writing
I only remembered it after seeing a 1978 Orville Redenbacher commercial where he compared the finished volume of his popped kernals to that of another popcorn company's.
My system basically involved a caddy attatched to the side of a popper holding 2 kernal containers. ther is only a slight slowdown in the popping process and training takes all of two minutes for the process to be explained to someone already familiar with using a popper.
This idea is probably only interesting to movie theater geeks and popcorn affecianados. But with rising corn prices it might be an option for movie theaters to reduce their overhead on popcorn prices while providing the same volume for the customer.
Over the years there have been many inventions or inovations, and I'm not tooting my own horn, some may have been useless, but the ones that could have been put into production never saw the light of day beyond sketches in notebooks. Notebooks lost or resigned to storage boxes, packed away like the arc in the last scene of Indiana Jones. Some were drunkenly thrown into bonfires or stolen by ex-girlfriends the only remanants of the lost ideas are forgotten conversations with friends.
Part of the reason this has been weighing heavily on my mind is that the other day in the book store I came across a book in the science section titled simply Hydrogen.
The first book I ever wrote was called hydrogen. It was a nonfiction look at the many interesting aspects and uses of this exciting atom.I loved that first book of mine and used to think about it the way we remember losing our virginity. I couldn't even pick the book up off the shelf even to read the dust jacket. So I stood there in the science section of Borders looking like I was waiting for the short bus to take me back to "camp".
Popcorn Orville Redenbacher Hydrogen Inventions Chris Miller Writing
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