# How do you eat popcorn?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-popcorn/286474>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 24, 2005, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-popcorn/286474 "2005-01-24T21:40:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![unclviny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e274bd/32.png) [@unclviny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unclviny)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2005, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-popcorn/286474/41 "2005-01-25T22:52:22Z")

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Here is an old Potted Meat Food Product thread that I started

> **[This is food?, I don't think so!](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=265787)**
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> I will be having some downtime out here, I was a little hungry so I grabbed something out of the breakroom, would you eat: “MECHANICALLY SEPARATED CHICKEN, PARTIALLY DEFATTED COOKED PORK FATTY TISSUE, PARTIALLY DEFATTED COOKED BEEF FATTY TISSUE,...

Unclviny

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**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-popcorn/286474/42 "2005-01-26T00:03:03Z")

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> [@featherlou](#):
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> I grab a handful and pick them up one at a time with my tongue. I don’t know why.

I do the same thing, but I don’t use my hand at all. By the time the bag is half empty, I have phone numbers from every woman sitting near me. 😃

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**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-popcorn/286474/43 "2005-01-26T00:12:40Z")

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I don’t eat popcorn. I \*\*loathe \*\* the stuff.

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**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-popcorn/286474/44 "2005-01-26T01:07:49Z")

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> [@Cunctator](#):
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> I don’t eat popcorn. I \*\*loathe \*\* the stuff.

Well, now we know what to get you for your birthday.

Sorry, I can’t help it.

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**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-popcorn/286474/45 "2005-01-26T04:59:13Z")

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POTTED MEAT IS PEOPLE!  
(Actually, it looks like Spam, but people is funnier. At least, it was in my head.)

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**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-eat-popcorn/286474/46 "2005-01-26T06:14:39Z")

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> [@Aesiron](#):
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> Same as you. If I’m in the theatre and have one of those giganto buckets, it’s almost all I can handle not to just shove my head in it like a trough.

It’s going to be all I can do not to do that next time I have popcorn. I usually stuff in five or so pieces at once. Occasionally I am seized with the urge to see just how many kernels will fit in my mouth. Answer: many. I always try it again just for fun. I eat the half-popped kernels after the fully popped ones are gone, and then I eat the unpopped ones.

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