So you’re saying that microwaved popcorn, with its high fibre and low calorie content, is shit? Then I’m a shit eater. Except that the occasional popcorn snack does not equal eating shit consistently, which you seem to be implying.
I think I’ll go pop a bag now.
I nuke a bag of popcorn when I watch a movie on TV. Which can be two or three times a week if I DVR enough good stuff. I also eat a couple of Hot Pockets and some microwave pizza a couple of times a week. Got a problem with it? Well, then,
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Bachelor Chow doesn’t exist only in the 31st century.
Admonishments that my lifestyle is going to lead to an early grave would be taken a lot more seriously if they weren’t coming from someone who brags about running red lights.
Just like grandma used to say. . .everything in moderation, even microwaved, vaporized diacetyl.
Jesus Christ, I could see if someone mentioned that you might not want to eat a chocolate cake with eggs and butter and sugar every day. We’re talking about the product of research from a chemical lab at ConAgra foods.
Yum. Yum.
My God are you stupid.
Can I say one last fucking time and see if it sinks into your brain that no one with half a fucking brain is barreling through red lights on a bicycle.
Coming to a slow-roll, checking both ways, and then going through is a different story. It’s one of the first things my mommy taught me how to do. It’s too bad you’re still unable to grasp the difference.
This part, I agree with.
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You’ve been around long enough to know better. Don’t do it again.
Then we’re agreed. What you seem unaware of is that I don’t do that nor advocate it nor brag about doing it.
Ah, but the free market IS taking care of it. The Weaver Popcorn Company (Pop Weaver), one of the leading brands, has stopped using dicetyl, the ingredient in artificial butter that gave some of their workers popcorn lung (not cancer.) They were under no governmental pressure to change the recipe, but they did anyway.
Some of their workers were exposed to the stuff all day, every day, and they got sick. As the story says, the consumer would have to eat a whole lot of microwave popcorn every day to get popcorn lung. Now that the recipe has changed, perhaps nobody will ever get popcorn lung again.
I think I’ll go pop a bag right now.
I have about 2 bags a month, and because I love my popcorn really, really buttery, I’ll micropop plain popcorn, melt my butter, and butter it myself. That way I’m getting real butter, second only to bacon fat in deliciousness factor - guess my clogged arteries are safe from cancer!
I don’t eat popcorn that often. But I do agree that eating things that aren’t a hundred percent good for you is fun. It’s working for me at any rate…
It occurs to me that the type I eat doesn’t have butter flavouring. Ergo, no dicetyl.
Are you kidding? Air popped or stove popped corn with real butter is soooo much better and not that much harder to make. One tablespoon of butter and a little salt is enough fat/sodium for two people, which I don’t consider excessive, and it tastes a million times better than microwave popcorn. Can’t understand why anyone would choose to microwave if they could spend literally 5 minutes to make real popcorn-- health issues from the microwave stuff completely aside. If you can also eliminate some random health risk AND get many magnitudes better food, how is that not a better alternative? I mean, I’m lazy as hell, but it’s worth the slightly extra effort.
shrug To me, it’s not. I like the taste of microwave popcorn, and no, I don’t particularly want to cook it.
How can you not see there is a difference between me pressing two buttons on the microwave and all that other stuff to cook it, by the way? Five minutes is five minutes I don’t want to spend. It’s comfort food!
Microwave popcorn tastes like cardboard…yech. It’s about on par with that filth they serve you at movie theatre.
My mom’s a huge nutrition person and she says that either Smart Pop or Buttery Light (orville) is reasonably decent for you as far as microwave popcorn goes but a lot of the other crap sold is really terrible for you.
Nah, for me it’s a popcorn popper or nothing. Usually nothing.
Well, taste (or lack thereof)… no accounting for it.
Same way you can’t see that for minimal effort you can have infinitely better tasting comfort food that’s better for you. Eh, whatever, if you like it, it’s your look out. I don’t get it, though, I agree with drm about it tasting like cardboard. It’s like having a fast food burger when you could have steak. Homemade popcorn with real butter and some garlic salt on it is freakin’ delicious. DELICIOUS. I doubt you could say that about the microwave crap.
I never eat microwave popcorn. About 3 years ago I bought a few pounds of popcorn kernals from a healthfood store, and just recently ran out. I spent less than $3 on 3 years’ worth of popcorn! And I eat a fairly decent amount of popcorn, especially when watching movies (which is all I can do now without cable). I’m thinking about buying an air popper to further cut down on the fat.
And Rubystreak, what an awesome idea- I’ve never thought of putting garlic salt on popcorn before! Think I’ll go make a batch.
I must be hungry. Both of my first two posts are about food.
Air popped popcorn:
Savory = light-flavored olive oil with a sprinkling of Lawry’s Seasoned Salt
Sweet = light flavored olive oil with a little salt, light brown sugar, and cinnamon
I used to say I liked microwave popcorn too, but once I got the air popper, there really is no comparison. The few minutes it takes is worth it every time, and when I taste the microwave stuff people make at work (because it does smell good), it always disappoints now that I’m used to the air popper.
I must be hungry. Both of my first two posts are about food.
Air popped popcorn:
Savory = light-flavored olive oil with a sprinkling of Lawry’s Seasoned Salt
Sweet = light flavored olive oil with a little salt, light brown sugar, and cinnamon
I used to say I liked microwave popcorn too, but once I got the air popper, there really is no comparison. The few minutes it takes is worth it every time, and when I taste the microwave stuff people make at work (because it does smell good), it always disappoints now that I’m used to the air popper.
Diacetyl is formed natural in the process of beer brewing from the valine synthetic pathway. It’s said to add the slippery mouth feel, whatever that means. It also adds the buttery notes in some alcoholic beverages. I’m not sure about the relative concentrations, but it most certainly occurs in nature. Not saying it’s good for you, I certainly wouldn’t want Bronchiolitis Obliterans, which is the actual name of the disease, but it isn’t an evil artificial chemical, it’s just something that has nasty side effects in too high of a dose. This is why we need scientists researching this before everyone gets all up in arms.