I'm with you.
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is already gone. Who is going to be our next target?
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.
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.
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).
I have always stated that I would support any BBQ resturant 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.
I would put at number 1:
microwaved kimshe
ruins the oven for days
Imagine all the hypertension caused by second hand salt and fat ;)
So microwaved Brussels Sprouts are 'legal' office fare?
BTW- I've committed all 3 microwave crimes...
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 )
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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)
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.
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.
I'm with you.
Orville: =>
is already gone. Who is going to be our next target?
Seocnd-hand popcorn smoke is a known killer.
WHAT?! No me?
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. :)
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...
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!
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.
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!
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