Word: corns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...From Florida and Texas, where jalapeno popcorn is hot, to the blizzard belt, where maple flavor warms the gullet, new retailers keep popping up across the U.S. There seems to be room for all. For instance, a dozen or more competitors have opened up around the two Garrett Pop Corn Shops in Chicago's Loop; even so, the 33-year-old Garrett's, which sells only butter, caramel, cheese and plain, has seen business treble in the past decade...
Industry analysts attribute the corn craze to Americans' heightened dietary sophistication. Like spuds and spaghetti, nutritionists point out, popcorn is low in calories before the butter goes on; two cups of popcorn have fewer than a medium-size apple. The American Dental Association recommends sugar-free popcorn for snacking. The Illinois division of the American Cancer Society praises popcorn as one of the "eleven things that don't cause cancer." (Among the others: a good laugh, exercise, fruit and vegetables.) Says James Fowler of American Pop Corn Co., Sioux City, Iowa: "If you had asked a lady...
...dieter who became popcorn-addicted in 1980 was Actor Jack Klugman (The Odd Couple, Quincy), who found in popcorn the answer to his craving for snacks. Klugman is spreading the good munch via Jack's Corn Crib, a planned chain that has already opened two outlets in Manhattan and expects to have at least 100 franchised cornporiums in business by 1985. Klugman uses no salt in his recipes and a maximum of 5% sugar. He has brisk competition in New York from Popcorn Paradise, which is adopting a movie-palace lobby decor on a moderate scale...
...cannon, yet still managed to turn back a surplus of $124 million that had been allocated for the GAU8 program. He is proud. Dilger's reward? No promotion. A new, unattractive desk job. In 1980, colleagues say, he quit the service in disgust. Today Bob Dilger, 49, raises corn and cattle on a farm outside Xenia, Ohio...
Though insect infestation might be expected in works of art that sit in storage for several years, the Center's specialists sometimes find more unusual objects. Recently, researchers found a corn plant growing out of the back of a painting by Thomas Jones, an 18th century English artist. "They found that painting in an attic that had been used for feeding hens," says Mary McGrath, an intern in the painting lab. "The seeds had settled in on it and sprouted," she adds...