Popcorn Friend or Foe?
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Hey, our employees are in an uproar!
All over the morning news is the story about the dangers of buttered microwave popcorn.
Then I walk into our lunchroom, and someone had left an opened supersize box of the stuff with a sticky saying "Free"
Hope it was a joke.
Or do workers have so little regard for colleagues that they would let others eat something they wouldn't themselves?
This is the talk of our workplace this morning. Hope the "culprit" is ready to do some explaining!
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A doctor in Denver sent a letter to the FDA claiming that someone who ate microwave popcorn multiple times per day developed lung disease. The culprit, apparently, is a chemical added to make the popcorn taste "buttery". There must be something to the claim, because ConAgra Foods, who is the largest maker of microwave popcorn, has announced it will eliminate the chemical from it's popcorn within the next year.
Sounds like your co-worker decided microwave popcorn was too unhealthy for them....but apparently not for you!
This has actually been a newsworthy item for a number of months now on cable news, in fact it could have been up to a year ago that I heard about it. The local news channels have just picked up on it like it was a brand new item.
Every time someone has microwaved popcorn in the office I have cringed and I'm now glad that it is finally hitting all the air waves. I don't think everyone will get on board and stop making this but some will think twice now before they do.