Please note that the author is eating a bowl-full of microwave popcorn while writing this xombyte.

I haven't bought microwave popcorn in a long time. It's not on my shopping list of usual suspects nor is it one of my favorite snacks. I tried it once or twice but I really can't stand the smell that steams out of the bag when it's done being 'waved. It reeks mostly of the rotten-egg-family of smells and if that doesn't get you, the delicate taste of faux-butter/all-chemical stuck on your tongue for hours afterwards reminds me of why I don't care for it.

So, I admitted that I'm eating it now and it's simply because I had a coupon. I thought it would be different. You see, the coupon that sucked me in was for organic popcorn (made with organic palm kernel oil, potassium chloride, natural butter flavor and annatto color...I'm sure the annatto is from a natural source, right?)

It tastes awful. I am forever off microwave popcorn. But while reading the label on the side of the package before I chucked it in to the recycle bin, can anyone tell me why 2 tablespoons of unpopped corn is 170 calories with 110 of them coming from fat? And why 1 cup of popped corn is only 30 calories with 20 of them coming from fat? I realize that the popped corn is less kernels than the tablespoons-full but that's still a lot of calories when it's unpopped!

And more importantly, who eats 2 tablespoons of unpopped corn slimed in chemicals? Was it necessary to print that comparison on the box?

I can't handle all the questions that the mystery of microwaved popcorn raises...it's easier for me never to speak of it again.

Please note that the author has finished the bowl of popcorn and is now trying to uncoat her tongue by drinking hot liquids.