# Stop popping popcorn! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 28, 2005, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-popping-popcorn/323866 "2005-09-28T16:12:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mint\_Julep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bc79bd/32.png) [@Mint\_Julep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mint_Julep)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-popping-popcorn/323866/1 "2005-09-28T16:12:57Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-popping-popcorn/323866/2 "2005-09-28T16:18:49Z")
Hehehehe. I just popped a bag of popcorn at my workplace yesterday. Oh, the envious looks, the drooling, the hungry longing gazes… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![YaWanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/bbce88/32.png) [@YaWanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YaWanna)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-popping-popcorn/323866/3 "2005-09-28T16:22:45Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-popping-popcorn/323866/4 "2005-09-28T16:24:17Z")
Also known, in corporate-speak, as “negatively impacting the olfactory ambience of the workplace.” ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-popping-popcorn/323866/5 "2005-09-28T18:26:51Z")
> [@YaWanna](#): > > 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-popping-popcorn/323866/6 "2005-09-28T18:31:35Z")
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?