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Theater Objects To Smell Of Popcorn
CBS2CHICAGO ^ | 17 May 2006 | CBS2CHICAGO

Posted on 05/17/2006 11:09:32 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist

(CBS) CHICAGO The smell of popcorn may bring a whiff of excitement to many people, but not everyone appreciates it.

That could keep Garrett’s Popcorn from opening at a new location downtown.

Published reports say the owners of the Oriental Theatre Building at 24 W. Randolph St., has filed a lawsuit to block the popcorn maker from opening in the building, which houses the Ford Center for the Performing Arts.

The theater planned to sublease a storefront to Garrett’s, but the owners of the building fear the smell of popcorn will invade other offices and cause people to cancel their leases.

They want a judge to stop the store from opening, or else install a ventilation system.

The Oriental Theatre opened in 1926 as a cinema, and has housed the Ford Center since 1998.

Garrett’s Popcorn is a local chain which already operates three stores downtown and one on the Magnificent Mile.


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KEYWORDS: libertarians; nannystate; tortreformnow
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To: capt. norm

When I was growing up in the mid-50's in Hobbs, NM we lived not too far from a Mead's Fine Bread bakery, the odors coming from that place will forever live in my memory. They did a lot of their baking at night and early mornings, to wake up to that smell when the wind was right was little piece of heaven.


21 posted on 05/17/2006 11:51:23 AM PDT by ladtx ("It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it." -- -- General Douglas MacArthur)
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To: sticker
But it still smells better than microwave pork rinds

And even the pork rinds smell better than "microwave possum" (not available in all areas) or the new and improved "microwave hard-shell possums" (known to scientists as armadillos).

22 posted on 05/17/2006 11:52:51 AM PDT by capt. norm (W.C. Fields: "Hollywood is the gold cap on a tooth that should have been pulled out years ago.")
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To: CSM

I have always stated that I would support any BBQ resturant withing smelling distance of a mosque.


23 posted on 05/17/2006 12:04:59 PM PDT by Starwolf
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To: Starwolf
I have always stated that I would support any BBQ restaurant withing smelling distance of a mosque.

Love it!

Speaking of barbecue aroma, my vote for the number one "scent trail" barbecue in America is the Rendezvous in Memphis. From their basement location the exhaust fans blow the barbecue scent & smoke up and down the alley and us "barbecue zombies" follow the aroma and take our places in line. If I lived in Memphis I would be way overweight.

24 posted on 05/17/2006 12:15:30 PM PDT by capt. norm (W.C. Fields: "Hollywood is the gold cap on a tooth that should have been pulled out years ago.")
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To: randog

I would put at number 1:

microwaved kimshe

ruins the oven for days


25 posted on 05/17/2006 12:22:27 PM PDT by fnord (497 1/2 feet of rope ... I just carry it)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Imagine all the hypertension caused by second hand salt and fat ;)


26 posted on 05/17/2006 12:23:09 PM PDT by DakotaRed
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To: randog

So microwaved Brussels Sprouts are 'legal' office fare?

BTW- I've committed all 3 microwave crimes...


27 posted on 05/17/2006 12:27:10 PM PDT by RedRightReturn (Even a broken clock is right twice a day...)
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To: Gabz; Extremely Extreme Extremist

I think they should cave into the theatres on this one. There are way to many popcorn companys around anyhow. What they should do is start making lutefisk instead. Hardly any company in america makes lutefisk (after two or three hours of that the theatre would beg them to make as much popcorn as they want )


28 posted on 05/17/2006 12:35:31 PM PDT by freepatriot32 (Holding you head high & voting Libertarian is better then holding your nose and voting republican)
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To: traviskicks

ping


29 posted on 05/17/2006 12:35:44 PM PDT by freepatriot32 (Holding you head high & voting Libertarian is better then holding your nose and voting republican)
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To: All

I love popcorn - all popcorn - any kind any where... except when I walk into a Target Store....they have a popcorn machine right near the card shop at the front (at least the store where I used to shop)....

One day in the winter it made me so ill I had to leave - went back a week later and the smell was still there, so I hitailed it out...

I loved visiting their card shop and all their little goodies for decorating.... but as long as the popcorn is poppin....I'm not.

In a movie theater - it's been so long since I have visited those entertainment spots...too many kids...too many cell phones... too many people talking. DVD is a nice quiet way to enjoy a movie...with popcorn too! :o)


30 posted on 05/17/2006 12:39:39 PM PDT by imintrouble
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To: 383rr; Gabz
Everyone I've ever known or been related to who's died has eaten popcorn.

Sometimes they popped it in front of me and I had to run to the dry-cleaners to get the awful smell out of my clothes and hair.

Not a few of them ate it in front of their kids, too, setting a lifelong pattern of popcorn addiction.

Ban it everywhere that I have to smell it, and tax it into the stratosphere.

I'm entitled to breathe popcorn-free air.

31 posted on 05/17/2006 12:49:15 PM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: imintrouble
I have discovered the (cholesterol-ugly) secret of theater popcorn. Coconut oil....and it's expensive, but well worth it if you're a popcorn addict, but the cholesterol police will want to get a search warrant and bust your cupboard for it.

I grew up in Iowa a short distance from Odebolt. That's America's popcorn capital and the origin of the venerable "Cracker Jack" (now owned by Frito-Lay but still kickin').

I was spoiled on good popcorn and so is my 36-year old Amazon parrot.

32 posted on 05/17/2006 12:59:41 PM PDT by capt. norm (W.C. Fields: "Hollywood is the gold cap on a tooth that should have been pulled out years ago.")
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To: Madame Dufarge
I'm entitled to breathe popcorn-free air.

I'm with you.

Orville: =>

is already gone. Who is going to be our next target?

33 posted on 05/17/2006 1:08:05 PM PDT by capt. norm (W.C. Fields: "Hollywood is the gold cap on a tooth that should have been pulled out years ago.")
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Seocnd-hand popcorn smoke is a known killer.


34 posted on 05/17/2006 1:12:23 PM PDT by elkfersupper (Normal American)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

WHAT?! No me?


35 posted on 05/17/2006 1:13:24 PM PDT by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
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To: jonascord

Is it? A man I used to know in Chicago almost bought a beautiful old house, but didn't because he and his wife were not keen on a huge stained glass window on the stairway. It was of the family nurse/governess and the two children she took to the Iroquois that day, to see Eddie Foy, and none of them ever came back.

So they bought a house they didn't like nearly as well. I said, why didn't you have the window removed, donate it to the historical society, and have something else put in that opening? The only sound on the phone was his hand smacking his forehead, over and over. :)


36 posted on 05/17/2006 1:16:50 PM PDT by linda_22003
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To: linda_22003

Chicago seem to have had it's share of catastophies and disasters, like the Eastland, an excursion steamer that capsized in the Chicago River while it was still tied to the dock, The Chicago Fire, the Our Lady of Angels school fire, several famous multiple murders, and Dick Daley...


37 posted on 05/17/2006 1:28:09 PM PDT by jonascord ("Republic. I like the sound of the word...")
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To: ladtx

I used to visit my aunt and uncle in North Chicago (for weeks), near Waukegan. The town had the foul stench from Abbott Laboratories from their vitamins or something. I was an odor you never forget!


38 posted on 05/17/2006 1:29:33 PM PDT by MadelineZapeezda (If you right click on Madeline Albright's image, my name should show up!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Cripes, the smell of caramel or kettle corn is p-o-s-i-tively sickening. I become violent if someone wants to assault my senses with it.


39 posted on 05/17/2006 1:32:31 PM PDT by AmericanChef
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To: jonascord
Chicago seem to have had it's share of catastophies and disasters, like the Eastland, an excursion steamer that capsized in the Chicago River while it was still tied to the dock, The Chicago Fire, the Our Lady of Angels school fire, several famous multiple murders, and Dick Daley..

May I add a name to your list? That would be Jesse Jackson.

On the other hand, Michael Jordan and, more recently, the Sox winning the World Series almost makes up for the bad things on the list.

Hey, I said almost!

40 posted on 05/17/2006 1:45:42 PM PDT by capt. norm (W.C. Fields: "Hollywood is the gold cap on a tooth that should have been pulled out years ago.")
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