The real bad news isn’t that fake, movie-theater buttered popcorn taken in large quantities is bad for your health. I think most of us already guessed that.
The bad news is that this substance may be found in beer. Or maybe not?
You don’t suppose that is the stuff in “butter substitutes”, like Butter Buds, I can’t believe it’s not butter, fake butter spreads, etc.
If so, lots of people are in big trouble.
Our family has gone back to the “old-fashioned way” of making popcorn. I learned it from my mom! A bit of Crisco in the bottom of a big, long handled pot with a tight fitting lid, just enough popcorn to cover 1/2” and shake on the burner. The pot is warm enough to melt the butter afterward. Dumped in a paper bag with a bit of salt, it’s the only way to make it! :)
Well, since the end of the seventies when the movies turned awful I stopped going.
I have had precious little buttered popcorn. I don’t drink beer, and I only use butter, real butter.
Common sense hath kept me healthy.
They can pry my Pop Secret Movie Theater Buttered popcorn from my cold, dead hands (and I guess that’s what’ll happen, LOL!).
What is that chardonnay that's been described as being so buttery you could dip your lobster in it? Time to sell that stock!
Acute airway effects of diacetyl in mice.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19852554
Larsen ST, Alarie Y, Hammer M, Nielsen GD.
Source
National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Copenhagen, Denmark. stl@nrcwe.dk
Abstract
Occupational exposures to the butter flavouring agent diacetyl (2,3-butanedione) have caused lung inflammation and severe airflow limitation due to bronchiolitis obliterans.
Diacetyl is naturally present in butter, beer, white wine, etc., and its pleasant odour is easily recognized by consumers. However, this pleasant odour may induce a false sense of safety when higher airborne concentrations are encountered in industrial use. In this study, the acute warning properties, in terms of sensory irritation, that could be useful to prevent workers from exposures to a high concentration were first investigated in a mouse bioassay. Then at higher exposure concentrations, the possibility of airflow limitation and pulmonary irritation were studied with the same mouse bioassay. Diacetyl induces concentration-dependent irritation in all parts of the respiratory tract during a 2-h exposure period. The no-observed-effect levels for each effect in the mice were above 100 ppm and initiation of sensory irritation in humans was estimated to occur above 20 ppm. No acute warning signal from the airways is expected at diacetyl levels that have caused bronchiolitis obliterans and other toxic effects. The sensory irritation effect, which occurred rapidly upon initiation of exposure, faded rapidly. Furthermore, high-level diacetyl exposures decreased the sensory irritation warning signal in mice upon repeated exposure, which suggests that the compound is especially insidious.
I was gonna say something.....but I forget.
No matter. Bloomberg will ban them all, just to be safe.
Meantime; in about five years; they will find that children who ate this 'oil' appear immune to skin cancer - or some such.
Personally; avoid the buttery. (Choice is good; no?) Love 'movie' popcorn; but when at home; pop my own (not microwave); and pop in coconut oil - banned from theaters; years ago - of course - per the wisdom of the food nazis. Yes; they took out the 'healthier alternative' and replaced it with some damning oil or combo; on behalf of the health of theater goers.
(Maybe; if they put the coconut oil back; it will offset the negatives of the faux butter; now served.) Might be an easy /win/win. . ./sarc off/almost. . .
So if watching the flaming liberal propaganda coming out of Hollyweird doesn't turn you into a blithering idiot, eating popcorn while you do it will.
But for less than $20, you can get a Presto hot air popper, then make regular popcorn fast and cheap with real butter.
We ate articifical butter for awhile, then saw how it was Leftists pushing it’s use.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientists to realize that when a death cult is pushing something, stay way.
We’ve used real butter for decades.
Oh, and don’t forget this: “Salt, we misjudged you”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2891182/posts?page=1
Following Leftists WILL kill you.
I use a hot air popper and warmed up olive oil. Am I safe?