When I was a kid, mom and dad bought our popcorn from the Jewel Tea man. Dad cooked it in the electric corn popper using bacon drippings. We used real butter on top and salted the **** out of it. It didn't get any better than that! I also rode my bike with out a helmet, drank from the garden hose, if I dropped food on the ground we had the ten second rule in efect. My curfew was when the sun went down, played road hockey in the street in the winter, hooked car bumpers on the way to school, and on and on. Micro popcorn? Nuts I'll take bacon grease any time.........
Now I really want some popcorn! And unfortunately for me, my cubicle from **** is right near the 'coffee station' area where someone burns popcorn in the microwave almost everyday. That has to be one of the worst smells around (we can start a new thread on the worst thing you've ever smelled since things are slow around here??).
Anyway- my family has always been a big popcorn family. It's all we get at the movies (I truly don't understand those that get a box of candy). I remember my mom making it on the stove growing up- and I even remember the giant yellow tupperware bowl she used to put it in. If she wasn't in the mood to make it that way, we'd pull out the 70s standard air popper. So I consider myself sort of a popcorn snob.
My 2 & 4 year old LOVE when we make stovetop popcorn. I personally use OR kernels & oil, melt REAL butter, and use morton's popcorn salt- YUMM! But I'll have to give some other brands a try. I use what I do b/c that's what my mom used, but change can be good. Sometimes. I'll have to try it out and report back.
Anyway- my family has always been a big popcorn family. It's all we get at the movies (I truly don't understand those that get a box of candy). I remember my mom making it on the stove growing up- and I even remember the giant yellow tupperware bowl she used to put it in. If she wasn't in the mood to make it that way, we'd pull out the 70s standard air popper. So I consider myself sort of a popcorn snob.
My 2 & 4 year old LOVE when we make stovetop popcorn. I personally use OR kernels & oil, melt REAL butter, and use morton's popcorn salt- YUMM! But I'll have to give some other brands a try. I use what I do b/c that's what my mom used, but change can be good. Sometimes. I'll have to try it out and report back.
polarisrider1
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You have not lived until you had popcorn in bacon grease. That's how my mom made it! Its to die for literally. Washed it down with real koolaid too! Extra sugar. So sweet.
Now, thats what I'm talking about!!!!
My wife and I have a plaque in our house that reads:
"Lifes journey is not to go to the grave in a well perserved body....but rather slide in sideways, totally worn out shouting, holy s&!t... what a ride!!!!"
I hold nothing back, including microwave popcorn. The bacon grease method sounds awesome, never tried it but I will now. Thanks for the tip.
"Lifes journey is not to go to the grave in a well perserved body....but rather slide in sideways, totally worn out shouting, holy s&!t... what a ride!!!!"
I hold nothing back, including microwave popcorn. The bacon grease method sounds awesome, never tried it but I will now. Thanks for the tip.
anonomoose
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Hey Polar, at the risk of deflating your images of childhood....if'n your mom was doing that sort of thing with your popcorn, did she also encourage you to ride in the street? Play with knives and guns? Let you stay out til 4am on school nites?
Look fella....seems there was a notion that momma knows best, but the fact is that there are folks out there, that really never decided on having a family...it came in a surprise package and you did whatever you wanted with that package so long as the neighbors didn't have to report you to the cops.
BTW hows the health holding out today.....??? On a lighter note, those stints go in slick as a whistle and you won't miss but a few hours of work.
Nash......bout time....tain't easy gettin a rise out of the old guy.... seems he's still breathin out there in that smokey state after all!
(mean to tipe...specktokills.....)
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lenny
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seeing that a movie for a family of 6 is way out of line, fri is movie night on the old plasma with cable on demand. You know that includes wal-mart popping corn and some mellow yellow (no brominated vegetable oil like mtn dew, tastes better also) I'll yank a few bucks from the couch cushions and buy a dose of OR and do a comparison. Stay tuned for more info.
polarisrider1
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Hey Polar, at the risk of deflating your images of childhood....if'n your mom was doing that sort of thing with your popcorn, did she also encourage you to ride in the street? Play with knives and guns? Let you stay out til 4am on school nites?
Look fella....seems there was a notion that momma knows best, but the fact is that there are folks out there, that really never decided on having a family...it came in a surprise package and you did whatever you wanted with that package so long as the neighbors didn't have to report you to the cops.
BTW hows the health holding out today.....??? On a lighter note, those stints go in slick as a whistle and you won't miss but a few hours of work.
Nash......bout time....tain't easy gettin a rise out of the old guy.... seems he's still breathin out there in that smokey state after all!
Health is fine. Low blood preasure, no cholesterol issues and a head full of hair. I deal with stress asap. Dad has smoked since he was 12 and is 77 in good health, lives down the street from Nash in the toaster oven called AZ. My mother is 77 and in fine shape ever since she retired from 42 years of working in a Plating factory. I am living one wild ride, And I really don't want the mind to go before the body. I fear having to have my children or a nursing home taking "care" of my drooling, bedsored and diapered 100 yr old plus body. I ride motorcycles, boat lake Michigan in storms and Mtn. Ride sleds, you think Bacon grease is an issue. Lol. If I felt you where truely concerned my rebuttle would be much milder. Green beens in bacon grease is fantastic too! Live like it's your last day on the planet. A friken bus could take you out tomorrow.
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Sure, sitting there in Mass City in the house I want to buy conducting a popcorn test and you didn't even invite me!
lofsfire
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The Popcorn Festival is always the Saturday after Labor Day, this year it is September 10, 2011. I lived in the area all my life and probably have only been a handful of times. But it is a good event, and normally gets a big deal made about it in the area.
Hey Polar, sounds like moose has been deprived all these years on the benefits of pure bacon grease, lol. I remember when dad cooked the eggs we would have them (sloshed) in the bacon drippings instead of flipping them over, a practice I still do today. Mom is 87 and still sloshing her eggs and popping corn in the drippings. Nothing wrong with keeping your inards lubed up a little, and when I check out they can just slide me in the casket with the help of a little bacon grease................
I cooked my eggs that way last night...like my old man taught me!
dc, are you from the UP too?
Unfortunately, I have to answer that as a "no". Within the next 24 months I hope to answer it with a seasonal (winter) yes.
My old man was from North Dakota, where I was born, but not raised.
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anonomoose
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Ah, it is always good to see folks living on the edge....til the big sledge hammer whacks them....cardiologists needs boats and condos in exotic places don't yah know. Most hospitals THRIVE on transplants and blocked arteries....keeps them in the black.
I am old enough to have lived thru those days of closing the eyes of eggs with the grease from the bacon, and DDT sprayed over the food in copious portions just for "good measure" but my lineage says that a hundred + is very likely and I prefer to take that ride in such a way as to not need sedation and orderlies strapping leather braclets on me for the last decade.
One must worship the temple, and remember that it is the only one we get. If we abuse it, don't be surprised if it has a major malfunction over and over again while trying to get to the other side.
I view it nothing short of a pretty fair investment in ME!
polarisrider1
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If it works for you go for it. Not all of us want to play shufflle board at the old folks home.