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.
LOL!
This is a man bites dog story if I ever heard one ! Good find!
Movie theatre popcorn often smells like vomit. So does microwave popcorn.
The theatre is probably worried about the 2nd-worst office culinary faux pas: burnt popcorn. The number one office culinary faux pas? Microwaved leftover fish.
Offensive smell ping. Seems I have heard of this issue before.....
Whats the fun of going to the ballet or opera if you can't have your jumbo tub of extra buttered popcorn and Mike and Ikes?
I thought they already did.
Oh....I read this to mean that objects in the theater would soon smell like popcorn.
Anyway, if this was really a classy place, wouldn't they call it a Theatre?
ROFL! When I see a tub of popcorn, well you know, I can't breathe, and need my inhaler, and they should install popcorn vapor separators, and well, you know, ALL THESE INCONSIDERATE POPCORN EATERS, CAN WELL, JUST EAT IT OUTSIDE!!!!!!!!!!
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAH~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But it still smells better than microwave pork rinds
They should allow smoking to help mask the popcorn odor.
I can't stand the smeeeeeeellllllll!
Ain't this rich. It almost seems like a parody.
They better tax this stuff right away. To pay for all the second hand popcorn health issues.
It's odd that they should complain about the smell of pop corn. Remember, this is the exact site of the old Iroquois Theater, the one that burned in 1903 during a performance and killed 600 people. They tore the building down and replaced it with the Oriental.
I can't describe how good that smelled. I could be on my way back from lunch, stuffed to the brim, and still want to follow that "peanut scent trail" to that shop and get my fix.
Regular microwave popcorn smells ok to me, it's the buttered microwave popcorn that churns my stomach.
Just about the worst smell known to science. It totally destroys my appetite for at least an hour.
Hey, that might make it good for dieters. Burn popcorn in the micro, smell the smoke, and away goes the desire to eat.
This is just too rich to turn down..............
You could write a bestseller about that diet. LOL!
Now that we have a smoke gnatzie in charge of our building, and we constantly get reminder notes about smoking areas, well I have started a revolt. I have a group of us that write complaints about offensive smells from the office microwave. We complain that we shouldn't have to smell the oder of burnt popcorn in our work area. The microwaves should be moved to the cafeteria.
If we are ever successful, then I can't wait to hear the complaints......
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