Every time my better half makes microwave popcorn, it seems to stay in there too long and leaves the kitchen smelling like a car fire.

biscuitdough wrote: Fri Dec 02, 2022 7:11 am Popcorn machine popcorn is disgusting, partly because of the vegetable oil topping, which isn’t even artificially butter flavored any more. The other issue is that it sits in the machine a long time. The moldy smell is what kills it for me. Remember before Target had Starbucks or whatever inside, and instead they had a little snack bar with a popcorn machine? The locker room stench of the popcorn machine would fill the store.

Real popcorn is fine.

When I worked at a Movie Theater, the company was enterprising/shameless enough to have us bag the leftover popcorn at night and sell it the next day.

zorg wrote: Fri Dec 02, 2022 11:26 am

biscuitdough wrote: Fri Dec 02, 2022 7:11 am Popcorn machine popcorn is disgusting, partly because of the vegetable oil topping, which isn’t even artificially butter flavored any more. The other issue is that it sits in the machine a long time. The moldy smell is what kills it for me. Remember before Target had Starbucks or whatever inside, and instead they had a little snack bar with a popcorn machine? The locker room stench of the popcorn machine would fill the store.

Real popcorn is fine.

When I worked at a Movie Theater, the company was enterprising/shameless enough to have us bag the leftover popcorn at night and sell it the next day.

I worked at a popcorn factory in Tucson for awhile. It was disgusting how much oil we pumped into those vats. The worst was when we made the flavored popcorn. We’d put it in something that resembled a concrete mixer and spray it down with oil. Working there during monsoon season sucked. Imagine being covered in all of that grease while it’s brutally hot and humid and the swamp coolers stopped working. I’ve only recently been able to eat popcorn again, and that job was 28 years ago.

Popcorn lung

Dave N. wrote: Fri Dec 02, 2022 11:43 am I worked at a popcorn factory in Tucson for awhile. It was disgusting how much oil we pumped into those vats. The worst was when we made the flavored popcorn. We’d put it in something that resembled a concrete mixer and spray it down with oil. Working there during monsoon season sucked. Imagine being covered in all of that grease while it’s brutally hot and humid and the swamp coolers stopped working. I’ve only recently been able to eat popcorn again, and that job was 28 years ago.

Ok I don't think I like those tins of caramel popcorn anymore.

I've never liked popcorn either. People who know me have been like, "what?!" Yeah, it's weird. I can do popcorn if it's got some kind of light sugar coating on it, but not something like Cracker Jack.

Can't say it's something I eat often, but I'd gladly do in a pack of Werther's popcorn if I was being gluttonous.

For me it’s Smartfood, but I have fond memories of the real shit being done in a skillet with a big domed lid in the fireplace.

Smartfood is like crack. I love it.

zircona1 wrote: Fri Dec 02, 2022 1:10 pm I've never liked popcorn either. People who know me have been like, "what?!" Yeah, it's weird. I can do popcorn if it's got some kind of light sugar coating on it, but not something like Cracker Jack.

Same here. I'll have a couple bites if someone else has it, and I'm never impressed.