The way I read this, JiffyPop has been struggling a long time, the company that makes it wants to drop the product, and is using this as an excuse. If they actually wanted to, they could reformulate just as easily as any other food.
Oh My God. I’ve graduated to the top of the Geek Hierarchy Chart. But it’s still not at all far from the bottom of the chart. I must restrain my furry tendencies.
You’ve been published? (And not just self-published?)
Actually, ConAgra has said nothing one way or the other about what they intend to do with Jiffy Pop. This whole notion that Jiffy Pop might disappear is entirely my idea.
Check your personal messages
One imagines that the word has already come down from the CEO himself, and even now, the research might of ConAgra Foods is being turned to this one, most urgent question. Teams of popcorn scientists are feverishly testing reformulations, putting immense strain on the supply chains for aluminium pie tins and weird silvery foil that puffs out nicely. The people of ConAgra will not rest until this disaster has been safely averted, I am certain.
As long as my Jif™ peanut butter is safe, I have no worries about the upcoming Jiffypocalypse.
But shouldn’t the word really be Jiffypopalypse?
Looks like you’re safe. According to Error 404, Jif Natural[TM] brand peanut butter uses non-hydrogenated palm oil, and Regular Jif uses fully hydrogenated rapeseed and soybean oil.
Unlike Skippy, which uses “hydrogenated vegetable oils (cottonseed, soybean, and rapeseed)”. Only Hormel Foods, Inc., knows whether those hydrogenated vegetable oils are fully hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated.
(And when they say “rapeseed”, they probably mean canola. Old-fashioned straight rapeseed contains enough erucic acid to make it taste absolutely awful.)
Those damned Feds can take away my guns, but never my peanut butter! :mad:
UPDATE: The FDA has made it official. The Trans Fat ban is upon us. Food makers have until Jone 2018 to comply.
Source: U.S. Bans Trans Fat - Bloomberg
You gave me jiffypopoplexy with your first post, but now that I’ve sufficiently prepared for the inevitable, I’ve had a jiffypiphany. I’ll just start popping my campsite corn the old-fashioned way, in a shaker pan.
Next thing you’ll tell me is that they are doing away with the other space age aluminum-wrapped food goodies like tv dinners! 
Well, since TVs themselves have pretty much given way to Netflix and Hulu, there’s no reason to have dinners attached to 'em, now is there?
The perfect popcorn was what my father made for us to take to the movies – and no, they did not give us the stinkeye. Popper with vegetable oil, a 60s version of this
and you flip the plastic part over, salt a layer, bag it, salt a layer, bag it, repeat.
Our father got a full bread bag full and my brother and I each got a half bread bag full. Or at home, it tasted best from classic Pyrex.
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What, no butter?
I think its a good idea to ban trans fats. They really serve no good use and obesity is a huge problem.
Trans fats don’t apparently contribute to obesity any more than any other kinds of fats do.
They do, however, contribute to a greater risk of cardiovascular disease.
About an hour or two ago, I sent a request to ConAgra through their website, asking them about the future fate of Jiffy Pop. I just received this reply:
So … if they do have plans to discontinue the Popcorn that’s As Much Fun to Make As It Is to Eat [TM], they’re not telling anybody about 'em yet.
I can tolerate a certain level of risk and do. Unfortunately for the purpose of this thread it won’t be for popcorn. I am one of those very few and rare people who think hot-air popping makes the best popcorn with a shaker basket/pan over an open fire as second best.
[QUOTE=dracoi;16901709*n my mind Jiffy Pop is “that popcorn you eat when you’re camping.”
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However, I can’t imagine they have much market share left, so this might be the final nail in the coffin for them.[/QUOTE]
JiffyPop goes on all my camping trips, as well as a lot of other niche camping things that a presumably profitable for their companies. I’m not an MBA, but my assumption is that one could make a case for its continued existence as a niche product with a high retail presence in camping-oriented stores (and maybe at double the price).
Good thing I’ve stockpiled about 150 of them in my Garage, then!
I’m getting 'em while I can still buy 'em at Wal*Mart for US$1.48 apiece.