On this day in ...... 1630 (380 years ago today), in what's now the United States of America, English settlers discovered the delights of an indigenous treat, popcorn (left), "when Quadequine, brother of
Massasoit (chief of the Wampanoag tribe), brought a deerskin pouch of the stuff to them." The puffy morsel was called "popcorn" as a derivation from "the AmerIndian phrase 'maize blown up by fire.'"
(Prior February 22 posts are here, here, and here)
