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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*
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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.
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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. Posts: 16551 | Registered: Feb 2003
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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But there is something so...satisfying...about dumping liquid butter-flavored plastic over exploded pieces of grain.
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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.
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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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