# Penis in the popcorn. Ever happen for real? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 12, 2003, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-in-the-popcorn-ever-happen-for-real/212897 "2003-11-12T20:43:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2024, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-in-the-popcorn-ever-happen-for-real/212897/41 "2024-05-04T16:59:01Z")
> [@chela](#): > > @needscoffee > > Sticking one’s pecker up through a popcorn box/bowl of hot salty imitation butter, to my imagination, is not that difficult but yes it is outlandish Not for a teenaged boy! Esp one who was dared by his buddies. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2024, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-in-the-popcorn-ever-happen-for-real/212897/42 "2024-05-04T17:05:45Z")
If you happen to be dating Lauren Boebert, maybe… ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2024, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-in-the-popcorn-ever-happen-for-real/212897/43 "2024-05-04T17:42:54Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > If you happen to be dating Lauren Boebert, maybe…. Lol! It’s a requirement. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2024, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-in-the-popcorn-ever-happen-for-real/212897/44 "2024-05-04T17:57:19Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > So not true. Many/most have outsized elements… Many do not. Here’s a list if you care to peruse. Even your own choice of words suggest something other than what you’re asserting. If it is in fact “many/most,” then “some” are not. Perhaps “wiener in the popcorn box” is one of the latter. The fact that it would be trivially easy to pull it off (heh!) or that it’s not at all an outsized tale doesn’t rule it out as a UL. > **[List of urban legends](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_urban_legends)** > > This is a list of urban legends. An urban legend, myth, or tale is a modern genre of folklore. It often consists of fictional stories associated with the macabre, superstitions, ghosts, demons, cryptids, extraterrestrials, creepypasta, and other fear generating narrative elements. Urban legends are often rooted in local history and popular culture. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2024, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-in-the-popcorn-ever-happen-for-real/212897/45 "2024-05-04T18:01:41Z")
Do you assume that’s a comprehensive list??? They have a few examples of each major type of UL. And yes, I had already read it. How can you say the popcorn thing did not happen? Is it because you didn’t see it happen? ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2024, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-in-the-popcorn-ever-happen-for-real/212897/46 "2024-05-04T18:07:46Z")
From the list provided: How can you say that none of these entirely possible tales didn’t happen in the19th century? You weren’t there, after all! How do you know that no child anywhere was killed by a stranger with poisoned Halloween candy? > **[Fair Charlotte](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Charlotte)** > > "Fair Charlotte" (or "Young Charlotte") (Laws G17) is an American folk ballad. > The story is a cautionary tale concerning a young girl called Charlotte who refused to wrap up warmly to go on a sleigh ride to a New Year's ball. Upon arriving at the ball, her fiancé discovers that she has frozen to death during the journey. > The ballad of "Fair Charlotte" is based on a poem by Seba Smith that was first published in The Rover, a Maine newspaper, on December 28, 1843, under the title A Corpse Going T... ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2024, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-in-the-popcorn-ever-happen-for-real/212897/47 "2024-05-04T18:30:39Z")
> [@Stratocaster](#): > > From the list provided: How can you say that none of these entirely possible tales didn’t happen in the19th century? You weren’t there, after all! How do you know that no child anywhere was killed by a stranger with poisoned Halloween candy? I’m _not_ making that claim. I didn’t write that article. BTW, the only documented case of poisoned Halloween candy was done by a father (a dentist, iirc) to his kid for the insurance money. > **[Ronald Clark O'Bryan](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Clark_O%27Bryan)** > > Ronald Clark O'Bryan (October 19, 1944 – March 31, 1984), nicknamed The Candy Man and The Man Who Killed Halloween, was an American man convicted of killing his eight-year-old son Timothy (April 5, 1966 – October 31, 1974) on Halloween 1974 with a potassium cyanide-laced Pixy Stix that was ostensibly collected during a trick or treat outing. O'Bryan poisoned his son in order to claim life insurance money to ease his own financial troubles, as he was $100,000 in debt. O'Bryan also distributed po... ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2024, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-in-the-popcorn-ever-happen-for-real/212897/48 "2024-05-04T19:55:32Z")
I think there might be a miscommunication here on the definition of an “urban legend”. Some people use a definition that requires that a tale be false in order to be an urban legend, while others require only that it spread like one, regardless of its veracity. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2024, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-in-the-popcorn-ever-happen-for-real/212897/49 "2024-05-05T02:20:19Z")
The poster for the 1976 American sex comedy “Feeling Up!” features a man with a popcorn tub over his crotch with a wacky expression as the woman reaches into it, but I have never seen the movie to see if it actually occurs. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2024, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-in-the-popcorn-ever-happen-for-real/212897/50 "2024-05-05T05:01:50Z")
> [@chela](#): > > Sticking one’s pecker up through a popcorn box/bowl of hot salty imitation butter, to my imagination, is not that difficult but yes it is outlandish. Considering that the flaps at the bottom of the box are folded upward, getting your pecker back out is probably the hard part. Under the circumstances, preserving the popcorn and the box is probably not the highest priority. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2024, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-in-the-popcorn-ever-happen-for-real/212897/51 "2024-05-05T12:46:18Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Some people use a definition that requires that a tale be false in order to be an urban legend, while others require only that it spread like one, regardless of its veracity. Yes. I think people are talking past each other because of the different definitions. I’m saying that this is an urban legand because it speads like on, and that while it’s possible that someone has or someones have done this, the _claimed_ number of incidents are going to outnumber any real ones by orders of magnitude. > [@Chronos](#): > > We have multiple people in this thread saying not just that a friend of a friend did it, or that a friend did it, but that they, personally, did it. > > Besides which, it’s like Rule 34: For any given sexual thing you can think of, someone, somewhere has tried it. I’m not particularly convinced by people claiming to have personally done outlandish sexual behaviors as teenagers. There was a particular poster who claimed to have personally done all sorts of incredible sexual antics. Given the responses to his posts, he was not generally believed. So while it’s true that someone somewhere has tried pretty much any given sexual thing, there are also many teenagers (especially boys) who lie or exaggerate what they have done. There’s probably a similar percentage of claimed Navy Seals vs. actual former members. ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2024, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-in-the-popcorn-ever-happen-for-real/212897/52 "2024-05-05T12:57:28Z")
> [@TokyoBayer](#): > > I’m saying that this is an urban legand because it speads like on, and that while it’s possible that someone has or someones have done this, the _claimed_ number of incidents are going to outnumber any real ones by orders of magnitude. I dunno…I think it’s a well known enough urban legend that probably lots of guys, probably mostly adolescents, will have tried something like this – _more_ than the number of specific stories, or times movies / TV have alluded to it. Obviously it’s a really bad idea for lots of reasons, but people do stupid things. And this is one that’s pretty trivial to set up. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2024, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-in-the-popcorn-ever-happen-for-real/212897/53 "2024-05-05T13:57:55Z")
Imagine the grease spot left behind after premature pullout 😱 Movie popcorn costs near as much as a movie ticket, nobody should be letting the boys hold the box. A communal box of popcorn can give you a communicable disease, hands off my box! 🍿🥤🦠🤢🚮🤡 ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2024, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-in-the-popcorn-ever-happen-for-real/212897/54 "2024-05-05T20:19:39Z")
When I read this thread title, I thought it was going to be the worst “body part found in food” story I’ve ever heard. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2024, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-in-the-popcorn-ever-happen-for-real/212897/55 "2024-05-05T21:04:41Z")
Lorena Bobbit strikes again! ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2024, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-in-the-popcorn-ever-happen-for-real/212897/56 "2024-05-05T21:04:52Z")
I’m with you. I 100% guarantee more than one boy or man has tried it. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2024, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-in-the-popcorn-ever-happen-for-real/212897/57 "2024-05-05T21:26:49Z")
Want some jiffy lube to go with that jiffy pop?! ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2024, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-in-the-popcorn-ever-happen-for-real/212897/58 "2024-05-05T23:54:28Z")
I realize I’m replying to post that’s almost old enough to legally drink from a long lost poster but this has to be high up there for winner of the username/topic contest. > [@handy](#): > > Actually, the trick is making a hole in the cup which is pretty thick paper & also has a large amount of hot melted butter on the bottom, which is not something you want on delicate skin, so that you can put the penis in. Don’t ask how I know this but also it’s better to just skip the cup altogether. It’s not corrugated cardboard & any butter at the bottom would accumulate at the lowest point if the container is at all angled, It’s not lying in hot cheese & sauce like the porno pizza delivery meme. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2024, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-in-the-popcorn-ever-happen-for-real/212897/59 "2024-05-06T03:36:09Z")
When my daughter starts dating, I’ll make sure to tell her to hold her own popcorn. Good lord, boys are assholes. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2024, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-in-the-popcorn-ever-happen-for-real/212897/60 "2024-05-06T03:40:50Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > When my daughter starts dating, I’ll make sure to tell her to hold her own popcorn. Either that, or have a good comeback at the ready. “Feels like a penis, only smaller.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-in-the-popcorn-ever-happen-for-real/212897.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-in-the-popcorn-ever-happen-for-real/212897.md?page=4)