January 19

How I Celebrated

I have been eating my box of Captain Crunch since I bought it a while ago at the dollar store (quite a good deal, eh?) but I have been saving the rest just to eat today. I also thought I would eat one of my favorite recipes of popcorn, hurricane popcorn. It isn't the store bought super expensive and delicious very processed one, it is just a version I found on the internet with Aloha shoyu, furikake, and rice cracker mix. Oh and dont forget the real butter (unsalted because the soy sauce is already salty. ENJOY :)

Diet Helpers 

• Sugar Free

  Plain with no additives, of course!

• Gluten Free

  Corn is gluten free!

• Vegetarian

  Yes! 

Recipes

• This is how you can make microwave popcorn with a brown paper bag (very inexpensive).
• Here is a kettle corn recipe
• Did anyone else used to get popcorn balls when they went trick or treating?
• Try at home hurricane popcorn recipe! It is how I do mine now. Much cheaper.

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History

Punchbowl
I did not realize that popcorn was a specific kind of corn. I guess I used to think that  the regular kernels were dried? But I never heard of anyone growing/ producing their own popcorn either.

Merchandise

I don't remember when it was, but when I tried kettle corn, I thought it was the best popcorn ever (probably because it was new. I had that same experience when I first had cream soda too). The most I have ever spent on popcorn is probably whenever I get the real Hawaiian Hurricane popcorn packs. So expensive, but so delicious.

Also, who freaking buys popcorn at movies still? Talk about throwing money away...
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Restaurants

• Here are some popcorn restaurants in LA (you know, like popcorn chicken)
• There is a popornopolis in Universal Studios, but I think this is the gourmet stuff they have at costco.
• I remember going past a store like this in the mall as a kid with all these different colors and flavors of popcorn.

Other Things to Celebrate Today

• Oatmeal Month
• California Dried Plum Digestive Health Month (Prune Breakfast Month)
• Hot Tea Month
• National Soup Month
• Bread Baking Month
• Candy Month
• Egg Month
• Meat Month
• Wheat Bread Month
• Fat Free Living Month
• Be Kind to Food Servers Month
• Healthy Weight Week
• Hunt for Happiness Week
• International Snowmobile Safety and Awareness Week
• International Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
• National Activity Professionals Week
• National Fresh Squeezed Juice Week
• National Handwriting Analysis Week
• No Name Calling Week
• Sugar Awareness Week
• Week of Christian Unity 
• Archery Day
• Confederate Memorial Day
• National Gun Appreciation Day
• Rid the World of Fad Diets & Gimmicks Day
• Robert E. Lee's Birthday
• Tin Can Day
• World Day of Migrants and Refugees