Why is it..

...that some foods are so good that the saying, "if you had three hands, you'd probably choke" holds true?

An example...

Popcorn.

Salty, freshly-popped, fluffy popcorn is one of the most delicious snacks.  Especially if you make it on the stove (another trick Mamma Noons taught our family and I passed her knowledge onto my roommates).


Teaching Molly the wonders of stove-top popped popcorn! 
Thanks for taking the picture, Jess! :)

Ellen DeGeneres joked about popcorn in her HBO special, Here and Now, and her observations are dead on.  We (as a society) literally shovel handfuls of popcorn in our mouths as if we have never eaten before.  All rules of etiquette fly out the window and more often than not, we wish we our hands could be bigger, to fit more of that delicious-ness in our mouths.  Ellen jokes that if you drop a piece of popcorn in your lap, on your shirt - anywhere - you never, ever brush it to the ground.  No no, you pick it up and savor every last piece.  An entire bowl of popcorn can be finished in no time, often times before the previews are over when you are at the movie theater.

On the PATH, I (people-watching at its finest) observed a man with a bag of popcorn that he literally scoffed down in less than 15 minutes.  How do I know that?  He opened the bag when we got on the train and finished before we got to Hoboken...which is, at most, an 18 minute train ride.  So give or take a few minutes and Mr. If-I-Had-Three-Hands-I-Would-Have-Joked-Myself polished off that bag of popcorn in record time. 

And for the visual.  Me, hanging on for dear life, trying to "read" the paper as I continually glanced up from the news stories of the day to watch this man eat his after-work snack.  And I'm cracking up.  But I cannot laugh in this man's face.  So I'm biting the inside of my mouth, trying to think of something serious, focus on the paper, or read the advertisement on the wall of the train for the 1000th time...ANYTHING to keep me from looking at the man again as he eats his popcorn.

Fail.  I continued to look at him.  I then proceeded to laugh to myself the whole train ride and then continued to laugh as I walked home.

Giggle? I think so.