Stop popping popcorn!

Everyday someone in my office makes a bag of the buttery drenched goodness, and instantly, I am craving it!* The smell is wafting into my office and I am jonesing like a crack head, and even though I was not hungry 2 minutes ago my tummy is rolling like it NEEDS a fix.
For my waistline’s sake…Stop the insanity.

*This also applies to all McDonalds, Wendy’s and Chik-Fil-A

Hehehehe. I just popped a bag of popcorn at my workplace yesterday. Oh, the envious looks, the drooling, the hungry longing gazes… :smiley:

Ooh, one of my office pet peeves here, but for different reasons than yours:

(1) Usually, the cow-orker burns it. You can. not. get. rid. of. the. smell. of. burned. popcorn. And it is horrible.

(2) Personally, the smell of the butter-flavor used in most microwave popcorn makes me physically nauseated. Seriously.

Also known, in corporate-speak, as “negatively impacting the olfactory ambience of the workplace.”

Yes and Yes. The morons I used to work with were absolutely incapable of making a bag of popcorn without completely burning it beyond all recognition. I mean, seriously, how hard is it to set the timer for 2-3 minutes and then remember to freaking come back and check on it? Setting the timer for 7 or 8 minutes is a bad, bad thing. And of course once that first bag was completely burned, that just meant they’d have to nuke a new bag. Ugh.

And I hate popcorn. The smell of regular popcorn makes me sick. The smell of burned popcorn everyday made me want to throw up on a regular basis.
When I got pregnant, I played the morning sickness card (with a little afternoon sickness thrown in) and asked them not to make it anymore. Worked like a charm.

Heh, all four ads across the bottom are for popcorn. A hot air popper, gold-medal popcorn, a “unique” popcorn popper and 100 different styles of popcorn machines.
Interesting.
Scary, since I hate popcorn, but interesting nonetheless.

I haven’t paid enough attention to them to notice, but obviously they’re geared to keywords in the threads?