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September 06, 2007

Deadly, deadly popcorn lung

I knew I never really liked popcorn (love the smell, hate the taste, sound, and stuck kernels), but I now know that it could kill me. Mmmmm, the buttery flavor of diacetyl. I'd also like to thank the Republican-gutted EPA for keeping the study under wraps for 2 years. Thanks!

Derrick, of course, loves popcorn. He's a vegetarian, so he doesn't understand that corn should only feed beef. Thank goodness he only eats Newman's Own Popcorn.

I'm just wondering if you get 'popcorn lung' if you can start smoking and flavor it with lung butter.

Posted by G at September 6, 2007 07:55 AM

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That is awesome. I am so using that. I hate the smell of popcorn, and I hate getting the kernels stuck in my teeth. I do like the taste, though. Anyway, Rex regularly threatens me with filling the house with popcorn smell. I'll show him!!!

Posted by: Stephen J. Xanthos at September 6, 2007 09:53 AM

I've always kinda thought that microwave popcorn sorta *smells* like cigarette smoke. . .

Posted by: scottevill at September 6, 2007 02:30 PM

Okay, popcorn has never been the first choice in snacks, except as a vehicle for butter. Still, that is just creepy. I keep envisioning men with movie topping (no joke, that is what they call the fake butter)streaked across their faces, going down into the popcorn mines every day until they are disabled by "popcorn lung", and then are forced to go back to their homes in Appalachia and sit on the porch, talking about their days of bringing up tons of kernels that helped fuel the movie theaters that made this nation great.

Posted by: Tony at September 6, 2007 02:32 PM

Grass should feed beef, not corn! That's what's wrong with most industrialized beef in this country!

Posted by: barry at September 6, 2007 06:05 PM

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who says "Lung butter"

Posted by: Lee at September 7, 2007 02:59 AM


what intelligent human still eats microwave popcorn...it smells so foul and fake. We've been making our popcorn in the wok for years...not butter thank you, just a bit o salt and garlic

Posted by: seth at September 7, 2007 08:34 AM

Why are all the bad things in the world always met with a political division - with someone to blame? There is a wide separation of beliefs from coast to coast - and wide involvement in the food industry across the nation.

Posted by: Roxanne at September 8, 2007 01:10 PM

G-d. Anything and everything will kill you. Just enjoy it while you can.

Posted by: Blobby at September 9, 2007 09:23 AM

By the way, any good microbrew and/or brew pub beer also contains diacetyl (which has a vaguely butterscotchy flavor). So I'm assuming you could also get beer lung if you drink a lot of decent beer.

But if you stick to Miller Lite, Bud, or Schlitz you should be fine, as there's no flavor at all in those. :)

Posted by: Alan at September 12, 2007 04:34 PM