They were kind-hearted and rarely did anything that was cruel. Supposingââ It was cruel to excite and upset her just for that; it made the pain worse. The contrasts were so cruel that they scorched the eyes of the soul. Those who bring them on us seem captious, thoughtless, cruel. He is cruel, and the very incarnation of selfishness, he said. If he had been guilty, what was that to the cruel world so ready to punish, so ready to do worse! I did not know how cruel they were, or I would have come long ago. Judge what a cruel wound for the heart of that poor shepherd! It's just cruel the way that poor old horse has been neglected.
My grandfather was watching a microwave testing rig, and he realized that the peanut-cluster bar in his pocket started to melt â it got quite warm, Rod Spencer, inventor and grandson of Percy Spencer, told Business Insider.
For many years, however, the only way to make popcorn was on the stove or through the use of an air popper. It wasnât until the early 1980âs that microwave popcorn was able to join this food product family thanks to the distribution efforts of General Mills. The story behind this product, however, is much more complicated than one might think.