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06 March 2007

I hate popcorn. The kind you get at the movies, the homemade kind, whatever. I just don't like it. It's just chewy/salty, I might as well pour salt on cardboard and go to town. Blah.

post by: matteo at: 17:51 | 20 comments

matteo, i've never thought i'd find another person with whom i share the deep and abiding loathing for popcorn.

bleh.

posted by lonefrontranger 06 March | 17:55

Wow! I loooooooove Popcorn. But I'm all about salty foods. Sweets do nothing for me.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 06 March | 18:06

*HACK*

*GAG*

Plus it gets stuck in your throat!

*COUGH*

Also, there's a microwave down the hall from my cubicle, and every couple of months someone burns up a bag.

Not a pleasant smell.

posted by Atom Eyes 06 March | 18:10

Atom Eyes, that's my main complaint: the smell. it nauseates.

also, i absolutely live for salty food but man i cannot tolerate popcorn.

once again for the kids in back: bleah!

posted by lonefrontranger 06 March | 18:14

It's not my favorite, but I enjoy cheese popcorn and caramel corn on occasion. I hate licorice, though, if it makes you feel any better.

posted by jonmc 06 March | 18:15

I lurrrve popcorn! I make it the old way, in a pan. And I add salt and olive oil and butter and brewers yeast and eat it for dinner.

posted by Specklet 06 March | 18:16

I like popcorn, but that awful smell of fake butter microwave popcorn is atrociously nauseating. Ugh ugh ugh.

posted by occhiblu 06 March | 18:17

My feeling towards popcorn is largely meh. If I go to the movies and I'm with someone who orders it, I'll munch on a few handfuls, but that's about it.

I don't mind the smell of plain popcorn being made, but yeah, the butter-flavored stuff smells like microwavable death. It really irritates me when someone makes it in the at work, because then the office reeks for hours.

As for liquorice: Red, YES! Black, NEVER.

posted by scody 06 March | 18:20

when someone makes it ~~in the~~ at work
me edit pretty one day.

posted by scody 06 March | 18:21

I'm eating Fiddle Faddle. Right now. Seriously.

posted by ColdChef 06 March | 18:40

Stay away from the microwaved popcorn as the bags have Teflon on the inside and the PFOAs or whatever the hell they are called (chemical that causes cancer in lab critters, that's all that is important) end up in the oil during heating in the microwave. Teflon is going away entirely before long but there is no point in exposing yourself to it in the meantime.

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 06 March | 18:53

I only seem to like popcorn when I'm going to see a movie at a theater while intoxicated.

posted by box 06 March | 18:55

Mmmm, popcorn with garlic powder and parmesan cheese is awesome. I love it and love the smell of microwaving popcorn.

But I do agree that burnt popcorn is nasty, best to burn it in someone else's house.

posted by fenriq 06 March | 18:56

Popcorn's really good with cinnamon and sugar on it.

posted by iconomy 06 March | 19:04

Kettlecorn popped corn is very good, no butter. Salty and sweet at the same time.

posted by redvixen 06 March | 19:28

I make my own version of kettlecorn with brown sugar.

Which reminds me of Joe Brown's Carmel Corn. I would walk a mile for a piece of Joe Brown's Caramel Corn.

posted by Specklet 06 March | 19:41

When I was a yungun, I enjoyed the occasional popcorn. College (along with the smell of burning microwaved popcorn) did it in for me. Blech is right.

posted by deadcowdan 06 March | 20:25

Sounds (probably is) ridiculous, but the only time in my life I've ever liked popcorn is when someone put yeast on it. Otherwise, I'm so glad that I'm not the only one.

I especially hate it when someone offers me popcorn at the movies and gets hurt that I don't want to share. I can tell them I don't like popcorn, but they'll just think I'm making a lame excuse not to share something. Because everyone loves popcorn!

posted by treepour 07 March | 00:24

I only have popcorn at the movies when they put real butter on it--Laemmele's in LA, Landmark all over the country, IFC and the Quad in NY.

posted by brujita 07 March | 10:04

I wasn't a big fan until I was a projectionist at a theater that made all their popcorn in-house. It was kernels, popped in Sunflower Oil, with a little bit of salt. Sooooo good. Since, I've started home-popping in canola/sunflower/whatever oil, and it just doesn't get better than that.

posted by god hates math 07 March | 11:30

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