'Maize. You call it corn...'

Sorry.

I can take or leave popcorn, generally. It tends to get stuck in my teeth. I do have a fondness for Cracker Jack, although the prizes aren't what they used to be.

Sorry.

Apology accepted.

My stepdad called it pig food and never ate it. People have called it lots of things, I expect. I wonder how many words there were for it originally... Didn't the Mayans cultivate it?

It is very bad for your gums, they say. I tried eating it without eating the husks, but it was a disgusting process.

When I was a little kid, there was a drugstore (like a five and dime) near our house that sold popcorn in the long, skinny paper bags, usually hot out of the popper.

Whenever my mom was going to that store, I'd talk her into getting me a bag of popcorn and a cup of Coca-Cola. To this day I still associate popcorn with being a kid walking around there on our town square, more than with movie theaters and such.

(This was also where I picked up my admittedly gross habit of sometimes soaking a piece of popcorn in the Coke before eating it... mmm, salty, sweet, soggy!)

I love popcorn. Love love love popcorn. Particularly the microwave kind (I've tried the stove variety but haven't mastered the technique yet). It's good I don't have a microwave, or I'd eat it every day, like I did when I was in high school. I eat the whole bag by myself. If you want popcorn around me, best to pop your own bag.

Popcorn and milk will go together in the same space. You can fill a glass full of (popped) popcorn, and another glass the same size full of milk, and you can put the popcorn into the milk piece by piece, and the milk won't run over. It won't work with bread. I read this in the Laura Ingalls Wilder books when I was a kid, and was very delighted to discover it worked.

I had a hot air popper that saw constant use until it died shortly after I moved in here. At the same time, I discovered that one of the outlets in my kitchen is wired at 220 (wtf?!?). Now I do it on the stovetop, even though it kinda marks up the glass surface. I've decided I like it better that way, anyway. It reminds me of when I was a kid and the neighbourhood kids would come over to eat my mum's popcorn, proclaiming it the best ever and "way better than you get at the movies, Mrs. ___!"

I am in love with flameproof's popcorn vomiting duck.

You can fill a glass full of (popped) popcorn, and another glass the same size full of milk, and you can put the popcorn into the milk piece by piece, and the milk won't run over.

I'm no scientician, but I don't see how this is possible.

Neither do I, Atom Eyes, but seriously it really works. Or it did in 1976 or so, anyway.

I usually pop on the stovestop or use the Alton Brown paper-bag method described in the AskMe, though without the staple --- no stapler! I just fold & crease twice. It's fine.

A few weeks ago, struck with a craving for popcorn but with no paper bags on hand and feeling too lazy to pop on the stove, I tore a sheet out of my biggest sketchpad and made an origami waterbomb, but instead of filling it with water, I poured in a handful of popcorn, spritzed with oil, and chucked it in the microwave.

It worked fine, though it was a bit small. On the plus side, it's a new trick in my Cool Aunt repertoire.

Janetland, I've always remembered that, too! And right around 1976, as well. Hmm.

I LOVE popcorn. And in spite of what someone at Mefi said, movie theatre popcorn is the bestest! We used to eat it at home quite a bit, and the mister still does once in a while, but I haven't in quite a while. I must remedy that. I want to try the popcorn in a bag trick, I hadn't heard of that before.

I want to try the popcorn in a bag trick, I hadn't heard of that before.

Me, either.