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- We love our country
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and we're getting ready to celebrate the 4th of July.
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Most people get together and have barbecues,
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have their family or friends over
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and you gotta have something for those children.
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So we are gonna be making patriotic snack mix.
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And got something to show you
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because you know Casey is working in Theresa's place
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because she's in surgery with her husband.
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So her husband Thomas loves gadgets.
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That was Thomas last night in y'all's kitchen, right?
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- We popped the popcorn. (both laugh)
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- I wanna see all Thomas's gadgets, I swear I do. (laughs)
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So we've got his popcorn that he popped so beautifully.
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Not a seed in the whole bunch. Not one unpopped kernel.
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So we're gonna melt a stick of butter.
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Okay, sometimes I can fire that one and it'll fire this one,
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So we'll use this eye.
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Last night, I think I took that off.
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Oh, there it is. Now I bet it'll fire. Yep.
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When I cleaned the stove last night after supper,
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I didn't put the little thing back on properly.
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Okay, so we're gonna melt our butter
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and we're gonna add a half a cup of sugar
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and we are gonna add, I think that's a tablespoon
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of corn syrup, right?
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(bowl clatters) Whoa.
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You know this reminds me when I was on the Oprah show
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and I was using these little glass ramekins,
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I dropped one, I was making my Grandma Paul's
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sour cream poundcake for Oprah
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and it dropped in the moving mixer
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and cake batter was flying everywhere.
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And what did I do? I ran. (laughs)
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- [Casey] It was so funny.
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- It was funny, you know, and seems like it made,
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somebody told me the top 25 videos.
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- [Casey] I think it did. (Paula laughs)
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- And my son Bobby had bought a brand new suit
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to wear on the Oprah show and he was on the first row
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and he got cake batter all over that new suit (laughs)
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and he was mad as a hornet
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because you know how he's funny about his clothes.
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(Paula and Casey laughing)
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Okay, so we're gonna let that sugar dissolve
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and you know we are calling this a patriotic,
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so we're using red and blue candies
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and we've got some white chocolate covered pretzels
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that we're gonna be using.
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And so we're gonna boil this for about a minute,
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stirring it constantly.
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was adding our gelatin and we're gonna let that cook
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and stir it constantly y'all, for about three minutes.
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We wanna make sure it's nice and distributed.
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In fact, I think I'm gonna switch at this point.
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I think I'm gonna switch to a whisk
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to make sure I get all that gelatin incorporated.
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And this, it's not a strawberry, it's a cherry gelatin,
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and it was a three ounce box.
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Okay, so we put our heat on simmer
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for three minutes, stirring constantly.
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And now I'm gonna drizzle this over our popcorn
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and then I'm gonna be stirring it
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to make sure it's all coated
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because I want Thomas's popcorn to work out perfect.
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Patriotic popcorn y'all.
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And we're gonna put this in the oven on like 250
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and we're gonna bake it for 20 minutes.
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- [Casey] Stirring every five minutes.
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- Yes, stirring every five minutes. That's right.
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'Cause you wanna keep it from not kind of sticking together,
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So in the oven it goes.
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And like Casey said, we're going to stir this
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like every five minutes for 20 minutes.
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So our next step is to lay this out
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in as much of a single file as we can.
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I think I'm gonna take that tray out.
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That'll give us a little bit more room
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(parchment paper crinkling)
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and you'll wanna take this out kind of immediately
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as soon as you take it outta the oven,
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you don't want it to cool in your pan.
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So we're just gonna let that cool.
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And then we got some more good stuff to add to it y'all.
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This popcorn is so good, just like this.
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Did you taste it, Casey?
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- [Casey] Yes, it's delicious.
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- [Cameraperson] I did.
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And it doesn't take but a couple of minutes
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for that popcorn to cool.
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I wonder if I'm coordinated enough to do this. (laughs)
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Who wants to bet against me?
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(parchment paper rattling) (Paula laughing)
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Look a there, I did it, didn't I?
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So you know, I told y'all about these chocolate candies
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for patriotic colors and we gotta have something white
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to go with that red and blue, don't we?
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Red, white, and blue. (food rattling)
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The big kids and the little kids are gonna love this.
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So what not maybe get a chocolate that...
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and how 'bout a white...
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Want you to make sure you take some to your children.
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- [Casey] They'll love it.
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- And show your husband Thomas how good he popped that corn.
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- Didn't eat it. (Paula laughs)
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- Perfect. (snack mix rattling)
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So you'll just wanna put this in a nice filled up container
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and say happy 4th of July y'all.
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I got a little sidebar y'all on the patriotic popcorn.
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Eddie was digging down in my cupcake decorations
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and he found these patriotic stars.
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So, you know, just put, use your imagination
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so the kids will be happy when they come up on a star.
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They don't taste like anything, but they're pretty. (laughs)
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Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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