Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Why doesn't......

Microwave Popcorn taste as good as it smells?

6 comments:

Kirk said...

We have people in our office who cook popcorn in the microwave every afternoon, and I have to say the smell that fills the hall drives me CRAZY...and not in a good way, either. I suppose it's a better than, say, pickled cabbage...but not much.

The Big Finn said...

I used to call on a company in Northbrook that manufactured flavors and fragrances. One of their biggest products was the artificial butter flavoring (and scent) for microwave popcorn. The strangest thing about the place was that every Canada goose within about a five mile radius would just be sitting on their front lawn looking as if they were sniffing the air. They could smell the food, but they couldn't find it.
There were no other birds to be seen anywhere else in the industrial park.

Anonymous said...

Make your own. It tastes better, is healthier, and isn't full of all those nasty (potentially cancer causing) chemicals:

Anonymous said...

The taste is different because the popped kernels are coated with microscopic plastic molecules.

Anonymous said...

Haha! I'll tell ya!! It's called "food engineering"...I'm sure there are whole divisions of ol' Orville's labs devoted to simply improving the smell, independent of the taste...

The Sour Kraut said...

I think that each and every time I eat it.