That guy ate popcorn several times a day for years. I don’t think my twice a week habit is the same thing.
Plus, the possible danger of something happening is not going to limit me enjoying my life. Everything in moderation, including moderation, and you only go around once I believe. Everything is going to give you cancer I think sometimes.
Yeah, except there are better alternatives to eating artificially flavored microwave popcorn. Like eating air-popped, or oil popped with real butter.
And, if you’re anything like the people I know who eat microwave popcorn. . .it’s popcorn for a snack, hot pockets for lunch, pop-tarts for breakfast, microwave pizza for supper.
It an endless stream pouring shit down one’s throat, and just a matter of time before the next thing that isn’t “food” but a “food product” is killing people.
While we don’t microwave prodigious amounts, I have started buying Jiffy Pop instead, if for no other reason than it’s a lot more fun for a six year old to make.
There is no better alternative. Microwave popcorn is quick and easy and I use it solely when I want to curl up with a good book and don’t want to think about anything complicated.
I use light butter and low sodium, so I’m certainly not going to make it with oil and real butter.
And as for the rest…nah, I’m nothing like the people you know. Not that I need to justify to you, but for fun…This morning I had a Price Chopper English muffin for breakfast, with delicious yogurt butter on it, and a glass of grapefruit juice and my vitamins (vitamin C and a daily multivitamin). For lunch I have leftovers from yesterday, lightly fried tofu and noodles in a brown gravy. For dinner - well, the SO cooks (he’s so much better at it than me), but no doubt it will be something both healthy and good.
Snacks are usually reserved for the weekend and they are usually fruit. I luuuuuurve berries.
But you can pry my microwave popcorn from my cold dead hands.
YEAH BUT IT TASTES LIKE STYROFOAM… OF IF NOT DONE RIGHT… BURNT STYROFOAM.
I like to oil pop… it comes out lighter than Microwave and is cheaper for me.
Plus why go for “butter Flavor” When you can easily provide the real think in a few seconds.
First of all, what people eat is their own business. Second of all, I think it is a giant leap from “So and so eats microwave popcorn” to “So and so must eat only crap if they enjoy microwave popcorn.” I love microwave popcorn but you couldn’t pay me to eat a hot pocket. Those things are semi-liquid evil.
And as far as food products killing people, FAR more people became ill and died due to contaminated spinach than people have become ill and died from eating microwave popcorn. This guy is not the normal microwave popcorn eater. Most people enjoy some variety to their diets and will never experience anything remotely similar to this.
I stopped eating microwave popcorn when a friend showed me how to cook your own popcorn in the microwave.
Just get a brown lunch bag, put in a couple of handfuls of popcorn, tape the bag shut (otherwise the volume of the popping popcorn will spill out into the microwave) and press on. Cut it off right when the kernals stop popping. (usually about 2 and half minutes for me) You get a fair amount of left over kernals but popcorn is cheap. Then I melt real butter (takes 20 second in the microwave) and have fresh delicious popcorn in the same amount of time as microwave popcorn. Yeah, it’s not a convenient at work but none of your coworkers want to deal with the skanky smell of microwave popcorn anyway.
I am aware of the negative effects one’s diet can have, I am just saying that to assume that someone who likes microwave popcorn, a product that is really pretty harmless when not eaten in enormous quantities like this man seems to have done, is automatically sitting in bed with a can of crisco and a spoon is wrong.
If you take in enough water that will kill you too. In fact, it has killed more than a couple of college students chugging water as a dare or frat initiation kind of thing and the occasional athlete has been hospitalized for over hydrating themselves. E-coli on spinach sent dozens of people to the hospital, killing some who were very young or very old. The avian flu has been affecting the health of thousands of people across the globe who have better dietary habits than anyone in the USA could ever hope for. These things are no less true because they are not chemically altered products or prepackaged foods. I am not saying you are wrong, I am not saying that faux butter flavoring is something that we should be eating regularly, I am just saying that there seems to be a bit of vitriol to your post that seems unwarranted.
I do this. Don’t tape bag, but just use 2 tbsp of popcorn so it doesn’t overfill. With that little popcorn, I do 1 minute, 20 seconds. I drizzle it with extra virgin olive oil - yum!
But what is any of that to you? I have a fairly balanced diet, but I am not going to give up my treats and eat grass just so I can live longer.
Reminds me of that old joke wherein the guy says he wants to live to 100, and the doctor says, no alcohol, no women, no fatty foods, etc. The guy says, “Well then why do I want to live that long?”
That’s how I feel. Everything in moderation! I will continue to eat my yummy foods.
I eat popcorn in between my daily doses of lard, take aways, ice cream and sucking on a crackpipe and a car exhaust.
Am I happy? YES !!
Do I care what anyone thinks? Huh?
[I actually love salty microwave popcorn and (once or twice a month) like to eat it watching movies, as I think it’s healthier than chocolate, chips or ice cream. If anyone has a problem with that it’s their problem, not mine]
I always thought that cancer is what all those suppressed thoughts and deeds of rage and dissappointment became after a lifetime of stuffing them into a little ball inside your head…I’d rather have some microwave popcorn.
I’ve eaten microwave popcorn maybe twice, ever. Don’t like it; it somehow tastes or chews differently than stove-popped corn. And I almost never eat that, either.