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I swear, I find the funniest stuff on Yahoo! "News" (insert inviso-finger "quotes" here)
This article says that the fumes off of hot buttery popcorn causes lung disease. I guess when the butter flavor heats, it gives off toxic fumes and that companies should not use it in their popcorn. In fact, Pop Weaver is already announcing that they're going to quit using it. I'm not sure what they'll use instead - they can't use real butter because it's A) expensive and B) the health-food police would be on their butts faster than a blood clot.
According to this article and considering the amount of movie theater popcorn I consume (at the movie theater and the stuff I microwave at home), I should have died when I was ten. But, on the "Crap I Care About" scale, this ranks somewhere below that jackrabbit I plowed over when I was cutting hay on the farm when I was fourteen.
This reminds me of something funny that happened over Labor Day, I was sitting and watching TV with my cousin, W, and her husband, J, when some sort of news-y thing came on. I can't remember what it was about specifically, but it was one of these "Some popular product causes hair loss in five year olds, so you shouldn't use it" things. W was kind of freaking out about it and J was making some kind of comment and I couldn't resist. In the most serious tone I could muster, I said "Did you know that carrots cause car crashes?"
J's reaction: "Are you serious?"
Me (actually succeeding in not laughing and giving my joke away): "Yeah, they said that most of the people who have been in car crashes have eaten carrots at some point in their lives. So you probably shouldn't eat carrots."
The dumb thing is that they actually believed me! I had to come clean and tell them I was just kidding and that I was just making fun of these reports. They both laughed and then something wondrous happened: the humor gods granted a blessing in the timing department. My aunt chose that moment to walk in and offer us a bag of carrot sticks to snack on. I felt bad for her because we started laughing even harder and she thought we were laughing at her. I had to explain what happened and she laughed too.
Anyway, the point is that we are all gonna die sometime, it's only a matter of when and how. And if we took ALL these studies seriously, we'd be bouncing off each other in our plastic bubbles (oh, wait, we can't live in plastic bubbles because plastic gives off fumes that cause cancer.)
(BTW: I can't take full credit for that carrot thing. I heard it somewhere on the radio and I can't remember for the life of me where. If anyone knows, tell me and I'll offer proper credit).
ETA: There's an update on this story: Apparently the one and only case of popcorn fumes causing lung disease comes from a guy who microwaved 2 or 3 bags a day every day for ten years basically huffed the fumes right after he pulled the bag out of the microwave because he liked the smell of freshly popped popcorn and that's why he has this disease. So, don't huff popcorn fumes every day for ten years and you won't get lung disease from it.
(Somebody please get this guy popcorn-scented cologne).
This article says that the fumes off of hot buttery popcorn causes lung disease. I guess when the butter flavor heats, it gives off toxic fumes and that companies should not use it in their popcorn. In fact, Pop Weaver is already announcing that they're going to quit using it. I'm not sure what they'll use instead - they can't use real butter because it's A) expensive and B) the health-food police would be on their butts faster than a blood clot.
According to this article and considering the amount of movie theater popcorn I consume (at the movie theater and the stuff I microwave at home), I should have died when I was ten. But, on the "Crap I Care About" scale, this ranks somewhere below that jackrabbit I plowed over when I was cutting hay on the farm when I was fourteen.
This reminds me of something funny that happened over Labor Day, I was sitting and watching TV with my cousin, W, and her husband, J, when some sort of news-y thing came on. I can't remember what it was about specifically, but it was one of these "Some popular product causes hair loss in five year olds, so you shouldn't use it" things. W was kind of freaking out about it and J was making some kind of comment and I couldn't resist. In the most serious tone I could muster, I said "Did you know that carrots cause car crashes?"
J's reaction: "Are you serious?"
Me (actually succeeding in not laughing and giving my joke away): "Yeah, they said that most of the people who have been in car crashes have eaten carrots at some point in their lives. So you probably shouldn't eat carrots."
The dumb thing is that they actually believed me! I had to come clean and tell them I was just kidding and that I was just making fun of these reports. They both laughed and then something wondrous happened: the humor gods granted a blessing in the timing department. My aunt chose that moment to walk in and offer us a bag of carrot sticks to snack on. I felt bad for her because we started laughing even harder and she thought we were laughing at her. I had to explain what happened and she laughed too.
Anyway, the point is that we are all gonna die sometime, it's only a matter of when and how. And if we took ALL these studies seriously, we'd be bouncing off each other in our plastic bubbles (oh, wait, we can't live in plastic bubbles because plastic gives off fumes that cause cancer.)
(BTW: I can't take full credit for that carrot thing. I heard it somewhere on the radio and I can't remember for the life of me where. If anyone knows, tell me and I'll offer proper credit).
ETA: There's an update on this story: Apparently the one and only case of popcorn fumes causing lung disease comes from a guy who microwaved 2 or 3 bags a day every day for ten years basically huffed the fumes right after he pulled the bag out of the microwave because he liked the smell of freshly popped popcorn and that's why he has this disease. So, don't huff popcorn fumes every day for ten years and you won't get lung disease from it.
(Somebody please get this guy popcorn-scented cologne).
