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Old 07-30-2010, 11:55 PM   #1
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The smell of popcorn...
...is the siren song of scents. Dear God, my mind practically shuts down as soon as I get a whiff of some popcorn. Somebody in the office just nuked themselves a bag and all I can think about is "Where is that coming from? How can I get some of that? It will be mine! It must!"

If aliens wanted to abduct humans en masse, they could just send the aroma of perfectly buttered popcorn wafting through neighborhoods across America. It could be blatantly coming from within the spaceship parked at the end of a cul de sac, and people would still walk right up to it. "Screw it, if they've got popcorn on board, I don't mind going on a little trip."

Popcorn is basically the only food I can think of that smells so good it always disappoints me when I actually eat it.

Anyway, just had to share... carry on...
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Old 07-31-2010, 12:08 AM   #2
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I have a recipe for low-fat, low-cholesterol chocolate cake.

It tastes like popcorn.

I have no sense of smell, so this is the best I can do. )
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Understood. Unless pregnant. Ugh, sorry to if it offends but the scent of popcorn and the taste is just horrible. A crime really, the scent is always the same arresting "make a big bowl of me and love it in the living room" scent...but it's so strong and so very disappointing!

Oddly, scent and taste with my first son was the worse...and yet he loves it so very much. Like an addiction, the 2.5 year old could eat an entire bag of microwaved popcorn if you aren't careful. I can only imagine what he'd think of a theater...heaven?

I'd like to add pizza to the list of "smells good but delivers disappoint". This is not every pizza, of course, but they all manage to smell good and yet many are just...depressing.

Aliens would definitely make it work, think about it, boarding a ship to popcorn and living in a movie?...surely, Americans dreams come true...

I'm done. Off to clean up the crushed popcorn...
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my late husband was a popcorn freak. i burned out on it early--about the time he was floating it on cheese soup. or maybe the chili pepper popcorn balls for christmas. or maybe it was the time he served caramel corn and pizza for my b-day. still, the memory of the smell brings a flood of good memories. thanks for reminding me--s6
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Uh-uh,

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I lurve the smell of popcorn but the absolutely best smelling food ever is fresh peaches.


Jay, go tell whoever nuked the popcorn, you're there for popcorn freshness inspection
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You mean there's someone in the world who can nuke popcorn without burning it? Seriously? I've never met the person--self included.

Me, if I want popcorn, I pull out the pan, the oil, the corn, and the butter and do it the right way.

You want the smell of perfection--that's it. And it tastes 4000% better than that nuked crap.
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my daughter got a tin of old fashioned popcorn as a gift for college. she and her room mates sat and stared at it all semester. no one knew how to pop corn w/out a micro-wave!--s6
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The smell of buttered toast in the morning is a lovely, lovely smell. I like popcorn, but toast beats it, every time!
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I'd like to add pizza to the list of "smells good but delivers disappoint". This is not every pizza, of course, but they all manage to smell good and yet many are just...depressing.
Gah, that sounds like every time I've tried to make home-made soup. Smells wonderful, tastes like dishwater.

My siren-scent is frying onions. Popcorn can't compete with it.
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I LOVE the smell of pizza, but hate the taste. I don't really get off on the smell of popcorn, but love the taste.

For me, the food that wins in the "taste/smell" trade-off is a tie between buttered toast (multi-grain FTW!) and McDonalds Fries!!! Yum!!

Hmm, I think I shall make some toast now...
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Really good, fresh popcorn with butter and salt is amazing with Chardonnay.

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my late husband was a popcorn freak. i burned out on it early--about the time he was floating it on cheese soup. or maybe the chili pepper popcorn balls for christmas. or maybe it was the time he served caramel corn and pizza for my b-day. still, the memory of the smell brings a flood of good memories. thanks for reminding me--s6
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That was my immediate thought when I read the first post. But I don't have any near me, so I guess I'll have to have toast. (Toasted cheese bread smells even better. Yum!)

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Try adding more salt, herbs and spices, a bit by bit until it tastes like you think it should taste. Commercial soups are highly salted, and it will take a while for your taste buds to adjust downwards to real soup.

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But I've found that candles often smell better than they taste.
Usually.

My "smells better than they taste" foods are frying onions and coffee, neither of which I can stand to ingest. But I don't mind others having them in my presence, because the smell is actually quite wonderful.
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Popcorn is a food I could totally leave alone if not for that smell

Has anyone had popcorn flavored jellybeans, btw? That has to be my least favorite smell/taste in the food kingdom.

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...is the siren song of scents. Dear God, my mind practically shuts down as soon as I get a whiff of some popcorn. Somebody in the office just nuked themselves a bag and all I can think about is "Where is that coming from? How can I get some of that? It will be mine! It must!"
If God was the scent, the crunch, the salt thrill of popcorn I'd be a true believer.
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