The PapaPost
Volume 1; 8th Edition, March 2008
HOWDY!
Cowgirls
and Popcorn! What a remarkable combination! Yep, that’s right, Katherine and
Tara are on their way to 
making Papa Dean’s Popcorn the most
talked about little popcorn shop in Texas! Our “popcorn bar” is catching on
like a tumble weed blowing across the plains of West Texas. We are so pleased
with our new décor and the response from all of our fans has been
overwhelming! Thanks to all of you who have taken the time to compliment us
and point out the little details that you like – ya know, from a personality
point of view! Tara and I could not be happier with our concept as well as the
implementation of that Sassy Cowgirl imagine! Oh yea, even our neighbors have shared
that they love walking by at night and seeing our “HOT” cowgirl lamp keeping
watch over our precious pop! Come early and often!
Left to right: Piper Katherine Chef Zoe
Chef Art & Tara
Here we are - in all our joyful "poppin" bliss; TEAM PAPA! We are in the process of developing a brochure and we wanted to place a photo of all of us in that brochure! Well, the photo captured all our personalities so well, we thought we'd share it with all of you! As the photo reveals, we sure do have a lotta fun!
NEW STORE HOURS:
Effective Mon - Sat 11 AM to 7 PM
Congratulations
…to the following Papa
Fans for having winning Kernels of Wisdom from last month’s popcorn give-away!
Sara
Bitterman
Josh Sloan
Catherine Mayfield
One
person remains - has not turned in their winning Kernel!
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BOEING BLACK EMPLOYEES VENDOR FARE
Our very
first Tradeshow of sorts….Papa Dean's was well represented at the 4th Annual
event out at Kelly USA! Katherine had so much fun, as did the employees
trying the samples. The employees were surprised after sampling that they
could also ppurchase their own "pop" pleasures! It was great
exposure for Papa Dean's and Katherine as well......... she had never been on
any type of military base before and she was amused at the security in that a
Boeing employee even had to accompany her to get a soda out of the vending
machine! Whew! It was a great morning and thanks so much to Ronnie
Jordan for his assistance with the coordination. Papa Dean’s will definitely
be back next year!
POCKET POP
Okay here is how it goes. Every since January when our Pocket Popcorn and evolving website, we have happily page went up on our what is still a new been inundated with people ACROSS the country, in red states, blue
states and even purple states too - ordering our very unique pocket size popcorn. Mostly the new baby announcement gig has really been keeping us wildly busy! (No we are not even remotely complaining!) You have to admit, it is the coolest most novel idea EVER -when wanting to announce the arrival of your new baby! Okay, we'll stop bragging on our creativity, and write what we intended to write! HA! Funny story ... we received an on-line order from Michigan - who according to the customer notes, had recently vacationed with family in SA. Apparently high on their "to do" list was to come to Papa Dean's Popcorn! Why you ask?? They had been sent some of our popcorn for Christmas and had been instantly HOOKED! No surprise there! So anyway they came in at some point, don't know when because they didn't point themselves out to any of us. Okay, they return home and the Mrs. is now 2 months away from her due date with twins! That's right, two babies! Fast forward to February 12th, 2008. Mr. & Mrs. "San Antonio is My Favorite Vacation Spot; especially in Winter" placed an order for 200 pocket popcorns to use for announcing their twin's birth. Beats a stinky cigar right? The only "special instructions" to us were that the labels (because we do fabulously creative artsy-partsy custom labels for you...) contain a cowgirl for their daughter and a cowboy for their new son! How adorable! Apparently they love the new cowgirl popcorn bar at Papa Deans, thus the inspiration. These birth announcements labels were sooooo awesome! Why be average - Pop it up a notch and say it with popcorn!
In honor of St Patrick’s Day when everyone becomes Irish for the
day, here is some (Beer) news you can’t use, but then again …
maybe you can??
- About 4000 years
ago, it was the accepted practice in Babylonia that for a month after the
wedding, the bride’s father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead
he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their calendar was lunar
based, this period was called the "honey month" or what we know
to day as the "Honey moon.”
2. Before invention of the thermometer, brewers used to check the temperature by dipping their thumb, to find whether appropriate for adding Yeast. Too hot, the yeast would die. This is where we get the phrase " The Rule of the Thumb"
3. In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender used to yell at them to mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. From where we get "mind your own P's and Q's".
Be Papa’s friend? We do. Be our pal at myspace.com/papadeanspopcorn☺
Proprietors, Tara & Katherine
PAPA DEAN’S Popcorn / 6484 N. New Braunfels
San Antonio, Texas 78209
Tel: 210.822.3625 / Fax: 210.822.2140
Hours of Poperation: Mon - Sat 10 AM to 6 PM
www.papadeans.com