Every weekday until Halloween , I ’ll be offering up trivia treats about sweets you ’re likely to chance on October 31 . Or , in today ’s eccentric , October 31 , 1900 .
2 ) Popular flavourer during that meter period included orange tree and lemon juice , rise , peppermint , love , vanilla extract , molasses and sugar .
3 ) 30 percent of Zea mays everta in the U.S. is sold at circuses , movies , fairs and baseball game game .
4 ) I was all set to tell you that the with child popcorn lump ever made lives in Sac City , Iowa , weighing in at 3,100 pounds . But it turn out that the phonograph recording was clear in 2006 by our neighbors in Lake Forest , Illinois . Lake Forest is dwelling house to the Popcorn Factory , a company that take a shit about 1,000,000 pounds of popcorn every year . The Lucille Ball took employee two days to make and follow in at eight ft in diameter and almost 24.5 feet in circuit . It librate 3,423 pound . ( Continue reading for a photograph . )
5 ) Take this one with a grain of salt ( ha ) , but purportedly the popcorn ball was incidentally invented in Nebraska during the " Year of the Striped Weather . " During this yr , there was blacken hot sunlight cover part of a farm and torrential rainwater on the other part ( those of us conversant with Midwestern weather know that this is entirely potential . ) The sun made the corn daddy and the rainwater washed the syrup out of the sugar cane . Because the farm was on a hill , syrup flow down into the clavus and it rolled into a big ball of deliciousness . Hmmm .
Yesterday : M&M ’s . Friday : Candy Apples . Thursday : Tootsie Rolls . Wednedsay : Snickers . Tomorrow : Sixlets , Candy Corn and Swedish Fish . Plus a handsome Halloween game show !
