Secret Kettle Corn Weapon!
Monday, September 1st, 2008
Here’s some news I can’t actually tell you about, but I can allude to it. I’ve found somebody on the Internet who took a keen interest in my daily “plight” and has decided to help me make my life easier! (Or should I say, he found ME on the Internet.) I like to call it my new “kettle corn vengeance weapon”. We’ve got a crack team of German scientists working on it now and hopefully we’ll be testing it out at the Palmdale Skunk Works location. If it actually works, I think a lot of other kettle corn poppers can benefit from it. Preliminary tests of “the gadget” says that it does. I hopefully will be getting my sweaty little hands on it within a week or two.
So the start of the school year has tempered the feeding frenzy at our tent. Sales have slightly dropped off at both our locations because of this. Still didn’t have time to shoot any silly video these past few weeks. I got a couple of ideas to try out.
A funny thing happened when we were setting up our tent in Framingham this week. We get there early and start dragging our crap out of the trailer and start setting up. We notice this woman with a notepad was hovering around our tent and was sort of watching us set up. Uh oh, this can’t be good I’m thinking, only health department officials take interest in what you’re doing before you start popping. Surprisingly, the Framingham health department inspector never showed up this year to check us out.
I approach her and go, “OK, you’ve got a notepad, are you a reporter or a health department official?” She looks at me with a surprised expression and told us she was under orders to from her boss to get a kettle corn vendor for her event. She lived nearby, so she wanted to come down early and plead her case to us. I guess the Olde Manse in Concord, Massachusetts is having a new fair and wanted to get some vendors to sell food there. I guess the guy who runs the place is mad about kettle corn and was determined to get some there for this year.
So how do you like that? Who knew we would be the recipients of special treatment. I bet the bread guy doesn’t get courted for anything like this! I felt like giving her the rock star treatment and demanding a dressing room so we could put our aprons on. Anyhoo…we agreed and we’re popping there early in October.
There’s a whole bunch of stuff happening on the weekends during September. I’ll be updating more on that when it happens.
