I have new disease to worry about

Popcorn lung.  Read all about it here.  Popcorn lung?!?  Popcorn is our favorite snack.  Bill eats the movie theater butter while I usually scarf down the 94% fat free.  I give the kids a mix of the two.  We probably make 3 bags of microwave popcorn per day.  PER DAY!  We are going to die.  Of popcorn lung.
We went several years without a microwave oven, or death ray as I like to call it.  Bill finally wore me down with his relentless begging, so I caved and bought a new microwave.  And I have fallen prey to it's Siren song of effortless popcorn.  I am going back to my old stove top ways. Maybe.

Can you believe there is actually an organization with the name "The Flavor and Extract Manufacturers Association."  Is Clark Griswold a member? 

Off to breath some fresh, non popcorn polluted air,
Wendy

Comments

[Randi]

YOu know, they should have named it something other than Popcorn Lung. That sounds so silly!

I love Clark Griswold! We watch that movie every Christmas, it is one of our faves!

[Chucker]

I have named my microwave "Scratch" as in "oh yeah, I made this meal from scratch."

[Gene Smith]

From the article: "...we have no other plausible explanation...". What a specious argument. So, he has a lung disease the source of which we can't determine; Buttered flavoring supposedly causes some kind of lung disease; well, obviously that's the cause! As Digory was fond of saying, "What are they teaching them in schools these days?" Bah, maybe I'm just getting cranky with age...