well-popped

Updated: May 14, 2025

And I am desolated at being compelled to bar out the rice not the gummy, glued-together, sticky, messy stuff which Northerners eat with milk and sugar on it, but real orthodox rice such as only Southerners and Chinamen and East Indians know how to prepare; white and fluffy and washed free of all the lurking library paste; with every grain standing up separate and distinct like well-popped corn and treated only with salt, pepper and butter, or with salt, pepper and gravy before being consumed.

Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb - One Third Off