Old school popcorn

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Dufe

Dufe

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Back when the only trans were trans fats, theaters used to pop corn with a certain type of oil. This oil kept the popcorn fresh tasting for like 2 days. Yeah its sus and it stopped hearts but it was Gods own oil. I need to know what that oil was. All I get is faggy soi answers like avocado and other shit.

I need to know!!
 
Old Hollywood eating popcorn.

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And here's a blog of how moviegoers started popcorn eating.
 
From this article:
Your movie theater butter has no butter in it, but it does have partially hydrogenated soybean oil (a.k.a. trans fats), beta carotene (a coloring, makes carrots orange), tertiary Butylhydroquinone or TBHQ (synthetic preservative that keeps the color and texture from changing as the product sits), polydimethylsiloxane (silicone based chemical that prevents foaming), and, wait for it, buttery flavoring. They do not say what exactly makes a buttery flavoring, but they do admit that it isn’t butter. So it is some sort of chemical that mimics butter.
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Looks like TBHQ is what you're looking for.
 
Equivocal_Iki said:
From this article:
Looks like TBHQ is what you're looking for.
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My guess is the flavor is diacetyl. Gives foods a buttery flavor and is responsible for bronchiolitis obliterans (aka popcorn lung) in people who work with it at the microwaved popcorn factory. If they're using Flavacol though, that doesn't have diacetyl. It wouldn't surprise me however, if the alternative they use turns out to be just as bad.

ETA: I sperged too hard and realized the OP wasn't asking about the flavor.
 
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Making popcorn on the stove from a bag of kernels takes less time than microwave popcorn and you can eat it immediately instead of waiting for that nuclear heat to get out of the bag.
 
Gender: Xenomorph said:
Why would you put oil on popcorn?

Jesus fucking christ americans are gross.

Your blood is probably as thick as honey.
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I can put whatever I want on my popcorn. I'm going to put extra virgin olive oil on it just for you.

EDIT: That was a dumb decision, butter is so much better.
 
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Equivocal_Iki said:
I can put whatever I want on my popcorn. I'm going to put extra virgin olive oil on it just for you.

EDIT: That was a dumb decision, butter is so much better.
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Its funny you said that cause I ran out of butter today and made some microwave popcorn with extra virgin olive oil and some flavicol mixed in with it (picked it up for $1 a carton, pretty good stuff but its about as far from being healthy as is humanly possible) its also good on baked or mashed potatoes to add that extra bit of butteryness
 
The greasy, buttery flavor and texture you’re thinking of is butter-flavored hydrogenated vegetable oil, usually canola oil.
WarJams said:
It was just coconut oil.
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Coconut oil has a very sweet, subtly nutty taste. Iirc it’s usually reserved for kettle corn.
 
Microwave popcorn is filled with shit that's horrible for you, so I use an air popper and with a little bit of olive oil and salt, it's perfection. I want to try coconut oil now though, lol.
 
Uncle Sid said:
Zesty Cheese Doritos used to use something similar, and were delightfully greasy. Now they are just really dusty. Growing old sucks.
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Yeah, I remember as a kid too, Planter's Cheez Balls literally melting into a Godly, oily liquid in your mouth. Then they relaunched them a couple years back and they were fucking shit, like eating packing peanuts.
 
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