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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Same thing happens with fries and pizza rolls.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

My friend introduced me to eating popcorn with chopsticks for practice and I've been doing it ever since.

No buttery fingers, no fistfuls of corn. Just a slow and forced-portioning pace.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Y'all using tools while I'm over here tonguing these fuckers out of the bowl like a tubby ant eater.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

That's a great image haha

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

a tubby any eater.

Anything? Free tonight?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Ant* and maybe

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Ugh, you're VERY right, but they don't sell 'em around here. We don't have the pairs we used to have anymore...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Same with chips or nuts.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Remember to always keep at least one kernel or your system won't boot.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Pop-corn enthusiasts, how do you make them? Ready-made microwave shite, or from kernels? If from kernels, do you use a special air-frier, or just pan with oil? I use the air-frier but I find that my biggest problem is getting the butter taste in them afterwards. I'm dripping a butter-tasting rapeseed oil afterwards, but this tends to not reach the bottom layers if I make a lot.

What's your approach?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Just use ghee in place of oil on the stove and use more than you think you'll need. Drown the kernels in that delicious high heat clarified butter.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Unfortunately it's a bit too expensive around here

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I've had this guy for a couple years now: https://a.co/d/ggaW5BS

Few butter patties and some kernels then salt once done; works great

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Microwave is okay in a pinch.

Kettle style with the built in stirrer, a touch of canola and salt can be very good.

I prefer air popped, with a 1:1 ratio of butter tbsp per 1/3 cup kernel batch, and dusted with fine popcorn salt.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I use an 8 cup saucepan with a splash of avocado oil. After popping I cover it in melted garlic butter with parmesan and nooch

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Split it in two bowls, apply topping, toss it around, combine bowls

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I've been looking into this air fryer / self-stirring cooking pot "Delonghi Multifry". Could work to get it mixed with butter while air frying.

Although I'm mostly thinking about air frying breaded chickpeas, noodles / spätzle, gnocchi and potatoes. Not to save on oil mind you, just to avoid having to get off my ass and stir the pan all the time.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Didn't know about the first phase.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Yep, never heard of it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Tangential, but anyone passing by this comment and doesn't like popcorn after working at a theater?

Whenever I see a bowl of popcorn it reminds me of that smell of popcorn and coke mixed together in a garbage can. It's not so bad that I don't eat it at all. But if I do, I have very little.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

My first job was at a theatre. The black jeans they had us buy to work there never lost the smell of popcorn butter. I kept them for a few years thinking they'd lose the smell after enough washings, but no.

I know that coke/popcorn/garbage mix smell, and how stupidly heavy a full trash bag gets when there's too many full sodas in it.

I don't eat popcorn often, but I remember we got it for free as employees in a small-sized cup. A few of us would make popcorn "parfaits" that consisted of popcorn, butter, and intentionally too much salt for several layers.

That and the slightly over-syruped coke we'd also get for free worked oddly well together.

I assume that this will ultimately be the cause of a massive heart attack, but the free snack smell-memory outpaces the garbage memory for me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'm a fist-stuffing guy. There is also no popcorn left by the time the previews are over. 😔

Also: Is eating all the only slightly popped kernels left at the bottom its own phase? I do that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I'm a fist-stuffing guy

Sure, but how do you eat your popcorn?

Also eating the half popped kernels is absolutely a phase. Especially if it involves gradually lowering your standards of what a half popped kernel is until youre just biting off the point of the kernels

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The secret third phase is scraping the last few kernels across the butter/salt film on the bottom of the bowl.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What's the phase where the popcorn is gone, so you drag your finger through the salt/butter residue, then lick it off like an animal?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

The secret 3½ stage?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Same as for chips

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Where's us weirdos that like to eat 1-3 at a time by one sticking to our tongue like a frog

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I have to try this the next time!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Lol I was telling a coworker about that the other day and they called me a weirdo. Best way to eat popcorn and keep your hands clean!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Popcorn + spoon is the way. Clean hands plus high throughput.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Probably eat french fries with a fork as well you psychopath.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Chopsticks, unironically. Better than having salt all over your hands.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Old Bay is far superior to salt.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

What the fuck

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Popcorn is great and all, but having some piece of popcorn stuck in your throat…

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Luxury! How about getting a piece of a kernel shell stuck between a tooth and the gum, and taking three days to get it out?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Luxury?! Have you ever had that happen at a movie theater? You just start sucking down on the limited coke that needs to last the whole movie, just to try and get that out. And all you wanted was to enjoy the movie in peace.

Though I will concede. Had some popcorm stuck between teeth during a movie. No fun. Not a kernel, though, and eventually either it was gone somehow, or I got used to it

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

It starts when the popcorn begins to cool enough that both it's safe to ram mouthfuls and it's a race against the clock to finish before it becomes cold.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

It’s a lot like a battle where at first you have controlled volley fire, but later the panicked lieutenant shouts out to fire at will.

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