Burnt Popcorn >:[

[Toshabi]

Fuck you 7-11 and fuck your microwaves and fuck your employees. That one dollar bag of popcorn cost me HALF my savings, just to watch it go up in flames because the asshole employee told me 2 minutes would be enough. Bye bye bag of popcorn and hello shirt that smells like burnt popcorn. Now I want to eat my clothes and so do all the homeless people that live here. IM STILL HUNGRY >:[

 

 

TL;DR-

 

[DrGravitas]

I hate when people in the office make popcorn in the breakroom. They either do fine and leave me salivating for an hour, or burn it and make the whole floor reek.

The worst, most awful smell though was this one time somebody on a different floor put leftover fish in the microwave for 3 MINUTES. The stench was so powerful, it travelled across floors and lingered for the rest of the day. I hear the project near ground zero evacuated.

[Lopaw]

The only thing worse than the smell of burnt popcorn is burnt hair.

Did you get them to reimburse you afterward? 

[Kosha]

There is no greater disgrace than burnt popcorn. I love eating popcorn as a snack because it's simple to make and tastes good. Burnt popcorn is dry and tastes like smoke and makes the butter taste like grandpa's ashes. It diminishes the great name that is popcorn.

[Feelwell]

Burnt popcorn doesn't smell the worst, tbh...

But then again popcorn is low-tier snackfood anyway. Full disclosure, it's not tasty,  filling, satisfying or even healthy.

I'd rather have a serving of boiled corn

[Gator]

never pay for burnt popcorn.  never.

[Jtrekkie]

23 hours ago, Toshabi said:

asshole employee told me 2 minutes would be enough.

 

He said two minutes would be enough.

 

Two minutes was enough.

 

You have no argument.

[Nova]

The worst is when most of the corn doesnt even pop.

[Jerry]

Obviously this happened because you didn't take Popcorn Preparation 670 in college. :V

But seriously, getting popcorn just right can be a pain in the ass. Even with our state-of-the-art microwaves it's still easier to do on a campfire. It takes more time, granted. But it's easier.

 

[DrGravitas]

1 hour ago, Jerry said:

Obviously this happened because you didn't take Popcorn Preparation 670 in college. :V

But seriously, getting popcorn just right can be a pain in the ass. Even with our state-of-the-art microwaves it's still easier to do on a campfire. It takes more time, granted. But it's easier.

 

There were a lot of people in my dorms that skipped that elective :U

[ZorroValdez]

Well ain't that a bag of dicks.

[Fossa]

On 1/19/2017 at 4:15 PM, DrGravitas said:

I hate when people in the office make popcorn in the breakroom. They either do fine and leave me salivating for an hour, or burn it and make the whole floor reek.

The worst, most awful smell though was this one time somebody on a different floor put leftover fish in the microwave for 3 MINUTES. The stench was so powerful, it travelled across floors and lingered for the rest of the day. I hear the project near ground zero evacuated.

*eats Kimchee, sardines and durian fruit, in the cubicle across from yours*

*evil laughter*

[Revates]

Next time, march right back in there, look them in the eye and demand another popcorn,continuing to try until you're satisfied with the level at which your popcorn has been popped.

[Cingal]

But, seriously. I hate the smell of popcorn. I don't even like it as a foodstuff, but, the smell is awful. Especially burn popcorn. Just seems to stick around for ages.

[Augmented Husky]

Ahhh yes the every day horror of food that turned out entirely unlike how you intended

The solution of course is to set your expectations low in the first place so that it's not to easy to disappoint yourself :V

[Socketosis]

I used IBM's AlchemyLanguage text analyzer on this post.

[Jerry]

32 minutes ago, Socketosis said:

I used IBM's AlchemyLanguage text analyzer on this post.

So little joy... Can this be fixed with keywords?

Rainbow ponies sunshine like LOL happy

[Tyranno]

On 1/19/2017 at 8:58 PM, Toshabi said:

. IM STILL HUNGRY >:[

 

did you try eating a dick?

[Chrysocyon]

When I worked in a convenience store, I had a co-worker that bought a bag of popcorn, put it in the microwave for the time recommended in the instructions, and burnt the hell out of it.

They then bought another bag, put it in for significantly less time... and still burnt the hell out of it. The smell of burnt popcorn lingered for the rest of the evening.

[U-235]

I've managed to cook popcorn using a bunsen burner. It was fun until the bag spontaneously ignited. We threw it in the sink and it blew up sending a combination of burning popcorn and extremely hot kernels everywhere. Somehow no one was hurt at all. Still kind of amazing.

 

 

[Toshabi]

 

[Red Lion]

Burnt popcorn sucks. Sucks twice as hard when you put a bag in the microwave and half the kernels are burnt and the other half are unpopped.

[Gator]

6 hours ago, Red Lion said:

Burnt popcorn sucks. Sucks twice as hard when you put a bag in the microwave and half the kernels are burnt and the other half are unpopped.

time to start doing it the old fashioned way, as nature intended.

[GarthTheWereWolf]

That moment you realize the popcorn stopped popping 30 seconds ago...

[Socketosis]

23 hours ago, Toshabi said:

 

"It's a little crispy but still good. Five dollas please."

[LazerMaster5]

At the theater, we have a newer popper that cooks really fast. When the top opens up you are supposed to turn off the kettle heat and let the batch finish popping, as this allows for most of the seed to pop without posing a burning hazard. However, barely anyone actually does this, and most leave the kettle heat on and dump it once it starts beeping. The problem is, once the popper is beeping, it is already too late and the popcorn has a risk of burning. There's nothing like the smell of burnt popcorn filling the lobby.