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Show " Firt Popcorn Popcorn made Its debut at the first Thanksgiving dinner In the United States., " f . It happened thus: At the close pf the open air feaat Quadequlna, brother of Massasolt, Indian snchemi nodded to one ot his attendants; The befenthred brave left the long oak table.; went to a clump of nearby shrubbery and returned with a deer skin bug. This he opened ,over the table,; pouring before the astonished colonists several bushels bush-els of "popped" corn. . The English hosts of the Indians never had seen or tasted the delicacy deli-cacy before, ft was as new and unique to them as tobacco was to I Sir Walter Raleigh. |