![]() ![]() ![]() **It also looks like the sell primarily in bulk.Does Popcorn Time save movies to your computer? For some reason, that always impressed me. *Later iterations had a place to cut off one corner to pour out the excess salt. Jiffy Pop is still around, since it’s owned by agricultural giant ConAgra.īut for many years, TV Time was what we mean when we wanted popcorn at home. The last seems to have been Great Western Foods, which still seems to sell similar products called “Portion Packs,” but which use canola oil, so it’s not the same.** Like most products, there’s little information on what happened to it. And later popcorn makers and microwaves made stovetop cooking of popcorn as obsolete as home churning butter. TV Time couldn’t compete in the convenience game, and and Jiffy Pop popped it out of the water for spectacular presentation. As a bonus, the foil covering the popcorn expanded as it popped, turning a flat pan into a big ball of aluminum-covered snack. It was an aluminum pan that you just put on the heat. This was our go-to for many years, up until Jiffy Pop came in 1959. Plus the nut oil was more flavorful than vegetable oil, so the end result was very satisfying. Not much different from the traditional method, but it saved the step of measuring out the oil. You’d shake it until it stopped popcorn and ended up with a bowl of it. You’d squeeze the oil into the pan, heat it, and then add the popcorn. The right pouch held nut oil (in solid form) the left held popcorn grains and salt.* ![]() It was a plastic container with a two-pocket pouch. Not a complicated process, but too much for the time Popcorn before this required that you pour oil into a pot (or popper if you had one and wanted to do it over a fire), heat it up, add the corn, and then shake it until it stopped popping. ![]() And in the time when a TV Dinner was the rage, it was unsurprising that TV Time popcorn was made. The 1950s were a time for food experiments, not so much in new flavors, like today, but in new and more convenient ways to prepare it. ![]()
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