Comments on: Dietribes: Pop! Goes The Corn

By: hannah

hannah — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:57:03 +0000

popcorn is the thing that I miss the most since living on my boat (no microwave) I have been thinking about making it in a pot on my alcohol stove I figure I’ll just catch it on fire, I’ll let you know how it goes.

By: Liz

Liz — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:01:19 +0000

I go to Valparaiso University, which is Orville’s hometown and where the popcorn fest is held. I’ve been there twice now, and it is the most fun you can possibly have based on one food. There’s a parade with a Popcorn Queen, and it’s usually only townies and students who attend, which makes for a fun and very causal crowd. It’s AWESOME.

Of course, I might be biased…I am a HUGE popcorn fan.

Once at a sleepover, my friends and I had just put on looong fake nails, and we ate popcorn with parmesan on top, and at the end we scooped up all the cheese with our nails. Kind of gross, now that I think about it.

By: tami

tami — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:42:26 +0000

i love orville redenbacher’s natural buttery salt and cracked pepper popcorn!! i tried it on a whim last year and everyone i’ve given it to since shares my love. seriously, go out and buy some. it’s sold in mini, single serving bags so it’s perfect for a quick treat and there isn’t enough for you to really overdo it.

By: cavvy

cavvy — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:47:50 +0000

Billy, I saw that cereal thing too, on Good Eats. Alton said to use popcorn as cereal the next day. Wouldn’t it be stale by then?

I also need to pop popcorn on the stove. Microwave will no longer do.

By: heather

heather — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:32:32 +0000

How coincidental, I’m munching on popcorn right now!

I have lots of favorite popcorn flavors, but the greatest form of it has to be fresh kettle corn. Every year whenever there’s some kind of street fair there’s always a vendor selling fresh-made kettle corn (that microwave-pop stuff is just nasty).

I generally like it lightly salted and buttered, not too much since I can’t stand the fake butter/chemical/evil voodoo they use. When I make my own (which is the best kind in my opinion) I like to add some paprika or chili powder to add a little flavor or some mochi crunch, which is baked seasoned rice crackers that are absolutely perfect with popcorn. In Hawaii, they have a delicious snack called hurricane popcorn that is essentially popcorn drizzled with butter, nori bits and mochi crunch. Delicious! (just make sure to add the butter AFTER the seaweed bits or things get messy lol)

heh. my recaptcha says ‘surely no’

By: Billy

Billy — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:28:29 +0000

When I was in college there were these 2 sisters in my dorm who were roommates. By the end of the quarter they’d run out of food money so they would have to improvise for nourishment. Many, many days I saw them pop a fresh pot of pop corn (old school way on a stove with a big pot and vegetable oil) and eat it like cereal in a bowl with stolen sugar packets and milk. I’ve thought about trying it for 30 years. If you do let me know…

By: Brandy

Brandy — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:37:27 +0000

Mmmm…I’m on a diet, so air popped popcorn with seasoned salt is a delicious low fat treat :).

When I lived in England as a child, we used to go to local fairs that served popcorn with sugar on it…I remember thinking it was weird but tasty. I think I first heard of Kettle Corn was when I was in high school in Ohio…prior to that I wasn’t aware that we had sweet popcorn other than Cracker Jack and the like here in America…

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:07:54 +0000

Orville Redenbacher has a cheese flavored microwave popcorn that is a bowl of greasy, oily goodness. The popcorn has cheese flavoring in the bag, and then it comes with a big pouch of pour-over cheese topping. I’ve been known to lick the bowl afterward. It’s fantastic.

By: Reggie

Reggie — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:55:39 +0000

They had this flavor of popcorn in stores for a while, Orville Redenbacher’s brand. It was Cinnabon popcorn. You made the popcorn then drizzled on a packet of this sugary frosting. Delicious!

By: Kate

Kate — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:53:33 +0000

I worked at a popcorn shop in high school, and therefore had a highly amusing time making horrible creations – the most delicious of which was white cheddar topped with the buttery topping (which basically means ‘weird yellow oil that is not butter’). The sight of coconut oil still makes me salivate.