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lenny

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about a year ago my wife bought a bag of popcorn from Walmart. It's just called yellow popcorn and it's $1.77 a bag. I tell you it's the best popcorn out there. I mean nearly ever corn pops and there really good. We pop corn with a hot air popper and add our own butter and salt. Try this stuff and I assure you that you will be pleased.
 
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You're making me hungry Lenny! I love good old buttered popcorn. Maybe we can have some if you make it up to John's this year for wood cutting and cabin staining.
 
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booondocker

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Lenny, it is expensive, but good old orville redenbocher WHITE is the popcorn of choice in my house hold.

Bailey won't eat anything else....he is the pickyist darn dog in the Universe.

BDAHWAY...my hot air poper is gettn' old....darn plastic top is cracking and can't take the heat.....hot air poopers....are hard to find...everyone is a go'n to does dang microwave chemicalized jobs with all the additives and such....won't do it....even if I have to go make my own pooper.
 
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wags

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If you can't find a replacement hot air unit then go back to the old fashioned stove top pot, can't get any more natural then that!
 
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lenny

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wags said:
If you can't find a replacement hot air unit then go back to the old fashioned stove top pot, can't get any more natural then that!
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yup, my oldest brother used to pop the corn when I was a kid. Pus some oil in da pan let it get hot and shake away,,,,good stuff
 
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polarisrider1

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Not sure if the wife would appreciate me sliding a pan around on her glass top elec. Stove. So its microwave popcorn for me. Cheaper the brand the better it works. Go figure,
 
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dcsnomo

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polarisrider1 said:
Not sure if the wife would appreciate me sliding a pan around on her glass top elec. Stove. So its microwave popcorn for me. Cheaper the brand the better it works. Go figure,
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Cheaper brands have smaller, less tender pops. The hybrid used for Orville really is a proprietary hybrid developed by Orville himself for the attributes of high volume and fluffy pops.
 
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polarisrider1

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dcsnomo said:
Cheaper brands have smaller, less tender pops. The hybrid used for Orville really is a proprietary hybrid developed by Orville himself for the attributes of high volume and fluffy pops.
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Pure BS. Orville, you are paying big time for name (smoke and mirrors). Give me the cheap stuff. Movie tyme works for me. What about jiffy pop?
 
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dcsnomo

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polarisrider1 said:
Pure BS. Orville, you are paying big time for name (smoke and mirrors). Give me the cheap stuff. Movie tyme works for me. What about jiffy pop?
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No, it is not. I ran Orville Redenbachers popcorn business for ConAgra for 6 years, and I know popcorn. The Orville hybrid really was developed by Orville as a hobby. He loved fluffy popcorn, and he developed the hybrid for size of puff and tenderness of puff.
The hybrid is protected, that is, ConAgra controls the seed and contracts with farmers to grow it. It truly is not an open market popcorn. Other popcorn producers cannot buy it on the market.

Try it yourself. Pop up an equal weight of any popcorn and Orville (equal weight!!) and pour the results into equal volume containers. Orville popcorn will have more volume from equal weight. And it will most likely have fewer UPKs (unpopped kernels). The true test of this is a popper or a pan on the stove, as the microwave bag sometimes restricts the corn from popping due to the high volume.

The other popcorns you mention, while they may work fine for you, use open market popcorn. And dats why dey cheaper!
 
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dcsnomo

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Orville Redenbacher

Here is his history. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orville_Redenbacher

By the time I got to the business he was only doing ads as paid talent. But he was a really nice guy, wonderful man. We would fly him on the company jet from San Diego (where he lived) to Valparaiso IN for the annual popcorn festival. They treated him like royalty, and he returned the affection ten fold to the city he grew up in. He was the king of Valpo for that weekend.
 
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dcsnomo

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booondocker said:
Lenny, it is expensive, but good old orville redenbocher WHITE is the popcorn of choice in my house hold.

Bailey won't eat anything else....he is the pickyist darn dog in the Universe.

BDAHWAY...my hot air poper is gettn' old....darn plastic top is cracking and can't take the heat.....hot air poopers....are hard to find...everyone is a go'n to does dang microwave chemicalized jobs with all the additives and such....won't do it....even if I have to go make my own pooper.
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Amazon has a selection of nice poopers......
 
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polarisrider1

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dcsnomo said:
No, it is not. I ran Orville Redenbachers popcorn business for ConAgra for 6 years, and I know popcorn. The Orville hybrid really was developed by Orville as a hobby. He loved fluffy popcorn, and he developed the hybrid for size of puff and tenderness of puff.
The hybrid is protected, that is, ConAgra controls the seed and contracts with farmers to grow it. It truly is not an open market popcorn. Other popcorn producers cannot buy it on the market.

Try it yourself. Pop up an equal weight of any popcorn and Orville (equal weight!!) and pour the results into equal volume containers. Orville popcorn will have more volume from equal weight. And it will most likely have fewer UPKs (unpopped kernels). The true test of this is a popper or a pan on the stove, as the microwave bag sometimes restricts the corn from popping due to the high volume.

The other popcorns you mention, while they may work fine for you, use open market popcorn. And dats why dey cheaper!
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I knew that from a popcorn discussion awhile back. Figured I could get the topic going! Getting a little slow around here.
 
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booondocker

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I was be'n fece-ish...try'n to get dah ole man out of his house in dah desert ain't easy anymore dez days....but dat don't stop me frum tryin...don't yah know.... (Oh, boy...from popcorn to potty talk....gunna get it now....)

On a higher note, I remember look'n around to replace my popper and could onlyish find used stuff folks were tryin to pawn off on foolish fellas.

I have done the stove top stuff....too darn oily now....and yes we had poppers that you added the oil in the bottom and they did their own thing....long ago gone from the scene....and my smooth top stove won't be happy with my cast iron skillet--ed scratches neither.....

Now those chemical ladened batch that put smell enhancers and preservative chemicals that make toilet cleaner look like flavor enhancement material....well, go ahead and eat away.....some folks eat skunk butt too, but not going there....don't need to.

Nash where arrrrrrrrRRRRRRRRReee you.....birds are chirp'n....bees are bee'n....come rescue me will yah bud???
 
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