Yes, you heard me right. Popcorn should be outlawed. I haven't always felt this way. Popcorn used to be one of my favorite foods, but now I can't stand it.
Why the change of heart? I got a job at a movie theater. We get all the popcorn we want for free. I've eaten so much of it that I can't stand it anymore.
I'm the one who usually gets stuck putting the popcorn machine together before we open and making the popcorn.
Anyone who questions my sincerity about despising popcorn should try making between 30 and 40 batches of it a week. Then try having to clean out the stupid popcorn machine after the snack bar closes.
*longs for the days when popcorn was a delicious snack and not an instrument of torture*
edited for spelling
[ July 11, 2004, 04:44 AM: Message edited by: Derrell ]
Posted by Valentine014 (Member # 5981) on :
Yeah, my brother workes at a theater too and no longer can stomach popcorn.
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
I only half like that stuff... It gets into my teeth and irratates me.
Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
What kind of theater? AMC? Marcus?
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
Is it true they reuse the old hot dogs from previous days?
Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :
And are made from the salami that Michael Bay produces time after time?
Posted by Erik Slaine (Member # 5583) on :
What about pink popcorn?
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
Can you still eat Corn Pops?
Posted by Derrell (Member # 6062) on :
Primal Curve- The company is Century Theaters. I work at a drive in. Yes, they still have drive in movie theaters.
pH- Hot food that is not sold on the first day is put back in the freezer and then put out for sale the second day. If it's not sold thae second day, it's put in the waste bin and disposed of. Food is never more than 2 days old and every precaution is taken to ensure that the food is safe to eat.
Book- The hot dogs we use are Oscar Meyer all beef hot dogs.
Erik Slaine- Pink popcorn? I've never heard of such a thing.
Annie- Yes, I can still eat Corn Pops. MMMMM. Corn Pops.
Hmm, maybe I should start a thread entitled ask the movie theater employee. People could ask questions they've always wanted to know the answers to. Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Maybe instead of outlawing pop corn, we should throw you in jail where you can never eat it again? That would solve the problem just as well. Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
quote: Is it true they reuse the old hot dogs from previous days?
We either ate them or threw them away at the end of the night.
<--worked at a theater. can't eat a lot of theater popcorn now.
Posted by Theca (Member # 1629) on :
I worked at a movie theater for years and I still love popcorn. The movie butter makes me sick, though. That stuff is disgusting. I never liked it to start with, but now just the smell makes me sick.
Oh, and we used to donate all the leftover popcorn and popcorn kernels to some guy who fed it to his cows. Or pigs. I forget which.
Posted by Tullaan (Member # 5515) on :
I hate pop corn too. The smell of microwave popcorn is absolutly horrible.
I hate it.
Carry on.
Tullaan
Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :
Does no one eat real popcorn? From a popcorn popper?
That stuff is GOOD!
*goes off to pop popcorn*
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
Movie theater popcorn is a distant second to my home-made kind. It's the seasonings that do it.
Best to use Orville Reddenbacher's loose kernels and pop it in a pan on the stove, using just barely enough vegetable oil.
Yummmmy
But movie theater popcorn is okay.
Microwave popcorn is an abomination and the inventor of it should be popped in a microwave until dead.
Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :
whatever the seasoning... popcorn farts are a particularly noxious variety.
I think this is why the "dinner" in the "dinner and a movie" date precedes the "movie".
Posted by Derrell (Member # 6062) on :
Like I said, I used to love popcorn before I started having to make it every night at work. I think we do use Orville Reddenbacher popcorn, but we buy it in 35 pound bags and go through 2 or 3 bags of kernels a week. of course, it is summer and our popcorn consuption will decline when summer ends and school starts up again.
Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :
if popcorn's gonna be outlawed, Orville's corn's gotta be the first to go.
I had a traumatic incident as a young child meeting that crusty old kernel-hawker at a local grocery store.
*shudders*
Posted by littlemissattitude (Member # 4514) on :
It's okay, Derrell. I understand. My first job, when I was in high school, was working in the snack bar at a swap meet on Sundays (it was at the local drive-in). For about a year after I quit working there, I couldn't stand the smell of steamed hot dog buns.
Don't worry about it. After you haven't worked there for awhile, you'll probably get over it and regain your taste for popcorn.
By the by, I love movie theatre popcorn and have threatened at times to go by a theatre just to buy the popcorn, not to see a film. Which some people do. I know of one theatre where it isn't unknown for people to walk into the lobby, buy popcorn, and leave again. I've seen it happen, and when I asked they said they have several regulars who do that all the time.
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
I love movie theater popcorn and I love the butter they drench it with. What I am morally opposed to is paying $5 for a bucket of it, so I hardly ever buy it.
Posted by BlueJacsFan (Member # 6590) on :
I used to like it, until it started giving me heartburn. Now, I won't touch the stuff.
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
Hee hee I love popcorn. And the Orville Redenbachers Pourovers are suprisingly decent microwave popcorn.
However I've now started taking a Zantac simultaneously with the popcorn to avoid all heartburn symptoms. So I can have my popcorn and eat it too.
AJ
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
*is munching microwave popcorn at her desk while reading this thread*
FG
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
I'm so cheap, that I've never bought theater popcorn. Now I wonder what I've been missing...
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
There are three words in the English language that I absolutely despise and can't handle hearing.
This thread has used two of them.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
:intrigued:
Can you handle reading them, or is that bad too?
[ July 12, 2004, 11:28 AM: Message edited by: mr_porteiro_head ]
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
I'm going to guess:
Hot Buttery Squick
-Trevor
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
My guess: munch fart awhile
Posted by Erik Slaine (Member # 5583) on :
I'm sorry Annie.
If you like, I'll never use the words "popcorn" or "pink" here any longer.
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
I'm going to write them, which isn't as bad as hearing them. They're still evil though.
munch yummy
and the third, which I hate for the same reasons as the second, is tummy.
Ack! Ewww! Bleck!
Posted by WasabiTurtle (Member # 6691) on :
But there is something so...satisfying...about dumping liquid butter-flavored plastic over exploded pieces of grain.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Yippie! I got one of them!
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
I'm allergic to popcorn (and corn in general). Smelling it is torture because it smells so yummy. I can eat a handfull and be ok, but any more than that and I'm taking a terrible terrible risk.
::sigh::
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Annie, how do you feel about "nummy"? What about "chummy"? "Plummy"?
Clammy? Phlegmmy?
Posted by Tullaan (Member # 5515) on :
I don't really like popcorn or icecream. The former because I'm always worried I'm going to break a tooth on an unpopped seed. The latter because the cold makes my tongue too numb to taste how it would taste if it weren't so cold. And also a really bizarre maternal pain-body transferance.
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Then try having to clean out the stupid popcorn machine after the snack bar closes.![[Grumble]](graemlins/grumble.gif)
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of course, it is summer and our popcorn consuption will decline when summer ends and school starts up again.
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