Indiana perhaps may get two new state symbols later this year.
Three days after the Indiana Senate voted to name popcorn grown in Indiana as the official state snack, the Indiana House agreed Thursday to revise the designation of Indiana s state aircraft.
Since 2015, the state aircraft has been all of the 6,670 World War II-era Republic Aviation P-47 Thunderbolts produced in Evansville between 1942 and 1945.
House Bill 1197 would change that to a single P-47 Thunderbolt, known as Hoosier Spirit II, completed two days before the United States and its allies achieved victory in Europe, and currently on display at the Evansville Wartime Museum.
Does Indiana need an official state snack? And should that snack be popcorn?
The answer to both of those questions is a hearty âyesâ among members of the Indiana Senate.
Hoosier senators voted 45-4 Monday for Senate Bill 97 designating popcorn grown in Indiana as the stateâs official snack.
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There was no saltiness during the two minutes the Senate spent debating the proposal, and no evidence state Sen. Ron Grooms, R-Jeffersonville, buttered up his colleagues to win their support.
Nearly all of them appeared to agree with Grooms that designating popcorn grown in Indiana as the state snack will bring more attention to the fact Indiana grows more popcorn than any state except Nebraska.