Secret Sauce

         Col. Sanders was that chief cook and bottle washer to "the secret sauce" that was to change the world of my chicken legs forever! Nothing like it, was my personal experience on the early visits to that "Kentucky Fried Chicken" restaurant in Bardstown, KY! Man ... oh man ... that chicken leg just got up and could walk itself to my waiting gullet. Anyhow, you might say, that "secret sauce" to life is "protoplasm".

        Now that learning cure to all that "secret sauce" had its begging with one of my most readable, educational, enjoyable, books on my shelf of learning about things. Here is my scan of the cover by Wilson and Loomis.

        Its first Copyright was 1952 (one years after my birth), then republished 1957 (my starting first grade), then 1962 (my starting junior high) and, my "Forth Edition" just at the end of my high-school years. You might say we grew-up together along our ways but, my edition was found still some years yet to come. Anyhow, on page 40 it reads: "The term protoplasm is very old; it means the first form, and was used in early Christian literature in describing Adam, the first-formed man." Can you believe it? All the way back to Adam.

       Then, the writers state: "Protoplasm is a fluid, semitransparent, viscous, elastic material." (same page) Water makes up 75 - 90 percent! What a deal to this "secret sauce". Solid materials make-up the rest. 

       You would have to guess the word derives itself from the "Greek" PLASMA, which denotes anything molded or shaped into a form. Thus, PROTO = first and, PLASMA = shaped (formed)! What a deal!