SC - Couple of OOP questions..

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Seamus querried:

>It's made of two identical (except for a matching male/female lip)
>shallow oval 'bowls of unglazed terra cotta, roughly 22.5 cm long, 17 cm
>wide, 3 cm deep externally, 2 cm deep internally per oval. Each oval is
>held in a metal frame (much like a pair of old spectacles) with a hinge,
>closing the two halves together like a clamshell, along the long axis.
>Each half of the frame has a long handle that meets the other. The
>handles are covered in non-heat resistance plastic (ergo, the whole
>thing does not go into the oven like a clay baker.
>
>Each half is imprinted with (and rough guess translations):
>
>La cotta brevettata (the quick little cooker?)
>La salute e nella cotta (the healthy, but better cooker/cooking)
>marchio depositato (registered trademark)


to which Puck naturally responds (as the yaller dawg rolls over and groans):

EGADS!  Have we finally discovered proof of a period popcorn cooker?  The
original Jiffy Pop machine?  Why, this could turn all of our research on its
very ear, documenting popcorn if not maize itself! <stop me before I pun
again!>

go ahead 'Lainie, yer shekel

regards, Wulfrith/Puck

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