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[953 nut 58,179]

 

Popcorn Lover’s Day, celebrated on the second Thursday in March, is a dream come true for all popcorn fans. Do you want to know how? Because you get to eat your favorite snack all day! This means you can choose any taste you want. Salted popcorn, buttered popcorn, caramel corn, and even kettle corn are examples of this. The goal is to consume anything and everything that appeals to you. So, what are you holding out for? Begin popping your favorite snack with friends and family and start nibbling right away. Make sure that the day is one you will remember for years to come.

 

 

[SylvanLakeWH 27,657]

[WHX?? 50,816]

Cheese corn Sylvia ... 

[squonk 42,722]

7 hours ago, SylvanLakeWH said:

Yup!!!   I have gravitated to the Orville Redenbacher Simply Salted variety available at the Big W ( Wally World) 

 

We had a baby sitter when I was about 4 years old. Everytime she was there she tried to make Jiffy Pop for us. Burned it every time! 

[Mickwhitt 5,032]

One of our steak pubs does beef dripping popcorn as an appetiser,  can't say I fell in love with it myself.

I'm a butterkist fan, we don't tend to pop our own corn over here, just buy it ready done in a bag.

Fun fairs are about the only place you'll get freshly made pop corn I guess.

The stuff at the movies is like chewing damp cardboard. 

[squonk 42,722]

Corn at the movies is awesome here. I've been known to consume an entire large bucket of it all by myself before the movie even starts!  

[8ntruck 7,430]

Great uncle Harold made the best popcorn.  Magic mixture of butter and lard to pop it in and the popcorn came out of a metallic copper colerec card card can.  Can't remember the brand.  He said the secret was to keep the kernels moving in the pan while they popped.

 

I use a mix of Crisco, butter and bacon grease now.  Favored brand of popcorn is Black Jewel.

[953 nut 58,179]

Back in the 1970s I had a table top popper that had a butter dish built in to the top and a fan that kept the Kernels on the bottom and the popped corn came out of the top into a bowl. The fan quit working one evening and it got so hot that the plastic butter dish melted and popcorn was going everywhere. That was about the time I got my Amana Radar Range and started using the bagged corn.

[adsm08 2,741]

We used to have an old oil popper that belonged to my grandmother, or my great grandmother, someone old. Anyway, my sister tried to use it one day and it burst into flames. She got so panicked that she forgot to pull the pin on the fire extinguisher and started screaming. That was probably 20 years ago and I still tease her about it.

[953 nut 58,179]

5 minutes ago, adsm08 said:

she forgot to pull the pin on the fire extinguisher

  That is much more common than you would think. Not aiming at the base of the flame is another common error.

[SylvanLakeWH 27,657]

When the kids were little I had an old fire extinguisher tapped with an air nozzle to recharge with a compressor. Filled it with water and used it to show them how to use a fire extinguisher on real fire at the fire pit...

Edited March 15 by SylvanLakeWH

[c-series don 9,468]

Fire extinguisher rules: 

P- Pull pin

A- Aim 

S- Squeeze 

S- Sweep 

 

Sorry didn’t mean to take this off topic, just wanted to PASS along this easy acronym to remember. And now back to POPcorn 🍿! 

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53 minutes ago, 953 nut said:

  That is much more common than you would think. Not aiming at the base of the flame is another common error.

 

I have seen many mistakes with fire extinguishers and they all go back to the same root cause. Panic. Even more important than knowing PASS is to stay calm. Breathe deep, make some pop corn, then worry about the fire.

Edited March 15 by adsm08

[Horse Newbie 7,215]

At work we have fire extinguishers placed at strategic locations around the site.

We have been instructed that we are not to use them to fight fire.

We are only to administer them to escape if we are trapped and have no other way to exit.

Edited March 15 by Horse Newbie

[c-series don 9,468]

@Horse Newbie Well that to me makes no sense. In capable hands the proper extinguisher can produce amazing results. I fully understand that certain people are not comfortable attempting putting out a fire regardless of the size, and that’s fine. Sometimes the initial knock down of a fire can mean the difference between people being able to get out and it turning into a full blown conflagration. Thus buying a small amount of time until the FD arrives. 
 Another thing I see in regards to ABC (dry chemical) extinguishers is them mounted on the latch side of doors. This is no good, as the slamming of the door over time causes the powder to settle down into a solid state. Then when the handle is squeezed, nothing will come out. The gauge will still read charged but won’t work. All ABC extinguishers should be turned upside down occasionally and tapped with a rubber mallet to prevent the powder from settling. While doing this if you put it up to your ear you can hear or feel the powder moving. Be safe out there! 

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4 hours ago, c-series don said:

@Horse Newbie Well that to me makes no sense. In capable hands the proper extinguisher can produce amazing results. I fully understand that certain people are not comfortable attempting putting out a fire regardless of the size, and that’s fine. Sometimes the initial knock down of a fire can mean the difference between people being able to get out and it turning into a full blown conflagration. Thus buying a small amount of time until the FD arrives. 
 Another thing I see in regards to ABC (dry chemical) extinguishers is them mounted on the latch side of doors. This is no good, as the slamming of the door over time causes the powder to settle down into a solid state. Then when the handle is squeezed, nothing will come out. The gauge will still read charged but won’t work. All ABC extinguishers should be turned upside down occasionally and tapped with a rubber mallet to prevent the powder from settling. While doing this if you put it up to your ear you can hear or feel the powder moving. Be safe out there! 

It's an insurance thing. The insurance company is worried that someone will try to put out a whole-building fire with a unit not suited to it, get hurt, and then sue. So instead they tell us to not use them.

 

Where I work our insurance company mandated safety training says that an employee with a weapon is the best way to counter a nutjob with a weapon. Then in the handbook we are told we aren't allowed to carry at work, even if we are CCW holders, because the insurance company is afraid they'll have to pay out if we were to shoot said nutjob. Insurance companies are full of wiz-dumb like that.

[wallfish 17,573]

2 hours ago, adsm08 said:

So instead they tell us to not use them.

 

7 hours ago, Horse Newbie said:

We have been instructed that we are not to use them to fight fire.

 

With all of the crazy nonsense going on over the last few years and now this, we have undoubtedly entered into Bizzaro world

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20 hours ago, wallfish said:

 

 

With all of the crazy nonsense going on over the last few years and now this, we have undoubtedly entered into Bizzaro world

 

I agree. I reality what we really need is a little insurance reform, and a lot of tort reform. Basically the insurance companies (and employers) need to be told they may not override our constitutional rights while we are on the job, and we need to change the laws so that people can't bring civil suits for injuries incurred during the commission of a crime, up to and including death.