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9-17-2007 @12:33PM samantha said... these things are all the rage in the weight watchers circles, cause you can slow down your consumption while sitting infront of the tv.
personally - if I needed to slow my popcorn eatting - I'd just use chopsticks.
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9-17-2007 @12:28PM Colin said... This reminds me of crap like the Chop Wizard, the Bacon Wave, and the Hot Dog Toaster: Garbage kitchen gadgets made super-cheap and sold for far to much money to people who watch too much late night TV and have way too little willpower.
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9-17-2007 @12:35PM Mia said... Unnecessary and in my opinion stupid and yet people will by it cause we love stuff.
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9-17-2007 @12:33PM tk said... I agree with your comments but I have to come out in support of the bacon wave. If it is the contraption I'm thinking of (and bought at a garage sale last year) it is really good at keeping the grease separate. It works.
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9-17-2007 @1:46PM Karen said... Also good for eating popcorn while you are working on the computer. Greasy hands = greasy keys = not good.
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9-17-2007 @4:33PM Victoria said... This would be great for my mom--she eats her popcorn with a spoon.
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9-17-2007 @7:45PM Robert said... If I am worried about greasy fingers, I just use chopsticks.
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9-17-2007 @10:43PM korinthe said... Figuratively speaking, I wallow in the tactile experience of homemade buttery popcorn. Life is too short to pass it up!
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9-18-2007 @2:18AM designgeekgirl said... A soup spoon works great to avoid greasy fingers & keyboards. Particularly helpful when you spice up the popcorn with chili powder or Indian spices, too. I love using chopsticks for salad and will have to try them with popcorn now!
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9-18-2007 @10:22AM Leena said... I must be 'stupid', because I'd grab a popcorn fork if it wasn't too expensive. Why? Well for Karen's stated reason, and well...
popcorn is my potato chip. An entire, full-size bag of SmartPop has less calories than a candy bar; and takes longer to eat. I put all sorts of things on my popcorn; onion powder makes it taste like Funyuns, a bit of worchestire for a BBQ flavor, cayenne pepper sauce for spicy, a sprinkling of a ranch dressing powder packet for -duh- ranch flavor, garlic & herb dressing powder, italian dressing powder, ect, ect. I also like to scoop up chunky salsa with bigger pieces of popcorn.
I like to spray a little bit of 'butter spray' onto my popcorn so powdery seasonings stick; but I don't have all the calories and fat of real butter. Needless to say, I go through oceans of paper towels and napkins. I could probably save a forest by having a little popcorn fork.
So; there ya go, call me stupid, lazy, ect; whatever you need to to feel superior. Have fun with that. =P
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9-18-2007 @10:30AM Heidi said... For cheese corn, maybe. Maybe.
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9-18-2007 @1:47PM Christy said... I've had one of these for several years. I can't say that I've ever used it as I am not a huge popcorn fan. I think that this product was developed, though, for use in a movie theater. I believe the premise was to keep the germs from your hands touching the arms of those movie chairs (does anyone really know how often those are cleaned?!?) from going into your mouth. Makes sense to me, but that's kind of one of those things that you really don't want to think about or you would never eat out anywhere.
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9-19-2007 @1:53AM Lisa said... In our house, we eat Cheezies with chopsticks to avoid orange fingers. It would work just as well with popcorn. No gimmicky gadgets needed.
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