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Default Popcorn (WAS: weiner war in chicago!)

On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 05:45:19 -0400, "jmcquown" >
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>"sf" > wrote in message
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>> On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 21:54:31 -0400, "Tom Del Rosso"
>> > wrote:
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>>> sf wrote:
>>> > On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 12:38:04 -0400, "jmcquown" >
>>> > wrote:
>>> >
>>> > >
>>> > > "Hackmatack" > wrote in message
>>> > > ...
>>> > > > Pass the popcorn!
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > With butter or without?
>>> >
>>> > I want cowboy corn!
>>>
>>> Never heard of it in NY.

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>> I'm on the opposite coast, but I wouldn't have heard of it either if
>> someone hadn't bought it and passed it out at work. I don't know if
>> it was a school fund raiser type food or what (she was the fund raiser
>> candy bar queen).
>>

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>> If you'd posted a link to a real recipe, I would have looked but video
>> recipes are boring unless they're demonstrating something I want to
>> learn how to do.
>>>
>>> Those should be called 2 different dishes. What do you do?

>>
>> I don't do anything, it's packaged popcorn. To be honest, I've only
>> eaten it when someone else bought and passed it out. I can't even
>> tell you if it's possible to buy these days because I don't look for
>> it. Sorry! Just know it's sweet & salty.
>>
>> --

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>I've never heard of "cowboy corn". Is it like kettle corn? It's made with
>sugar but also salted. Damsel used to rave about kettle corn. I tried it,
>hated it. I don't want popcorn to be sweet.


I think the various caramel corns are pretty good, I like Cracker
Jacks, Fiddle Faddle, and that ilk. This is good but pricy:
http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&key...42kqodilor_ e