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Jiffy Pop Popcorn was noticeably tastier than your microwavable variety. But unfortunately, Jiffy Pop was eventually nudged off the market by its less delicious competitors. An aside: stovetop popcorn also reminds me of that episode of Futurama where Fry puts the “Iffy Pop” in the microwave, which then sends the crew back in time.
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http://randomfunnypicture.com/2009/01/Redneck-Fire-Alarm-Jiffy-Pop/
Is this a picture from your house?
I wish my house was that cool. Haha.
“Jiffy Pop was eventually nudged off the market”
I have one in my pantry right now.
You can still buy them in Canada.
A lot of the stuff on this sites that is “no longer for sale” can still be bought in Canada.
I guess we’re just slow at progressing
Dammit, you beat me to it.
Oh, I love this stuff! And bought some a few months ago! This hasn’t been pushed off the market.
I have a wife but have not been pushed off the market. Looking for some side action.
Wait, do you come with your wife in the deal?
You can find it at Walmart Supercenters. I hate that I have an electric stove now… can’t do the Jiffy
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I cook jiffy pop on an electric stove all the time! Just note that the heat setting is different than a gas stove (the package should tell you which setting for the electric,. just a bit further down the instructions I believe).
I like to put aluminum foil in the microwave.
It also had a bit of product placement in the last Fantastic Four movie – Johnny Storm was holding it in his hot hand and popping it!
On “Smallville” Clark Kent used his heat vision to make Jiffy Pop.
I adore Jiffy Pop – it just feels so waffy to me, to be “cooking” in something disposable (plus, none of the grossness of microwaveable popcorn).
I remember getting together with some of the girls for a movie night and one of the guests brought a pan of Jiffy Pop. The hostess, never having made Jiffy Pop before, set it on the stove element, turned on the element, and walked away to do something else.
Yeah, we didn’t have popcorn that night. But we did have an emergency fire drill
Add more butter.
Trivia note: The witch is Ruth Buzzi, who later was a cast member of “Laugh-In”. Her most famous character was the frumpy woman on a park bench who always smacked Arte Johnson’s Dirty Old Man with her purse.
Anyone else notice it says “Jiggy Pop” in the narrative paragraph?
Getting Jiggy with it.
Bunniemagyck, you can make this stuff on an electric stove. That’s all we had growing up & it worked just fine to pop Jiffy Pop.
Saw this at the local grocery store (Alberton’s) last weekend. It’s still around.
Albertson’s!!!!
I took this camping once.
And………? Care to expand on that thought? Maybe a bear came by and stole it out of your camping gear and then you shot a flaming arrow at the bear. Thus causing its fur to catch fire and it made the bears tummy get hot enough that the popcorn started to pop.
Then the bear exploded and popcorn rained down from the sky.
Did it work, or did you wind up melting the aluminum pan? ‘Cause that’s what happened to me.
Somehow, I’m a little doubtful of that, considering that the melting point of aluminum is around 1220 F. Either that pan’s not aluminum or you were cooking with a welding torch.
My store still sells it. Sure its bottom shelve. But we still got it.
Mine does too. I bought some a few month ago and the teen aged cashier had no idea what it was. A different teen aged cashier remembered that Drew Barrymore made Jiffy Pop at the beginning of “Scream”.
My elephant loves this popcorn.
I remember taking this on camping trips with my family. We cooked it on the camp stove and took it to the dock on the lake and omnomnom’d it. The burnt taste gave it something special. I’m glad to hear from you guys that it’s still around. Mmmm…
Anyhow, the next time you go camping, bring some jiffy pop!
I always remember the part in the movie “Real Genius” where they fill a guy’s house with popcorn using a giant Jiffy Pop and a big laser whenever I hear the words “Jiffy Pop”. Good times. Good times.
Jiffy Pop taught me about hot surfaces. I was about 5 or 6 and I’d learned in school that when you’re in a fire and trapped in a room, you check the door for heat with the back of your hand to judge if it was safe to open the door. So I thought that I’d check the burner (electric btw) to see if it was hot enough to make the Jiffy Pop. (No, the neon red of the hot coil was not apparently enough of a clue – I never said I was bright) I laid the back of my hand directly on the coil and ended up with a very nice spiral burn. 30 years later… I can’t think about Jiffy Pop without smelling burning flesh. Yum!
3rd degree burns are awesome.
Oh, dear. Laney, that must have left you some interesting scarring
Laney, I did the same thing, only Jiffy Pop wasn’t involved. Too bad, because that would have eased the pain. I wasn’t bright either. I’m still not.
Jiffy pop takes forever and a day to cook! We made some for a 70’s themed party and when it was done everyone’s arms were tired from taking turns…
How do you make this without burning it? I will always associate Jiffy Pop with the smell of crumbling kernels.
“What smells like blue?”
I’ve actually never had Jiffy Pop. My parents wouldn’t let us after myy next-door neighbor (almost twenty years ago now…holy cow, I’m old) had one of these burst open and the hot oil splattered over her face, neck and arms. She wore a mask for a very long time, and had the WORST burn scars. I felt terrible for her. I realize this was like, a one in a million kind of thing, but Jiffy Pop scares me now.
Of course it’s still on the market! Not only great for inside the home, you can also work it (carefully!) on the grill outside.
Still a camping favorite. One of the girls we camp with is type I diabetic, and it is the one thing she can have that can be cooked over the campfire.
Jiffy Pop is still around I bought a few of them to take on a camping trip.
Yupp, still around, had some last week!
Those kids who have never had it simply haven’t lived!
Jiffy pop was a once in a blue moon treat for my brother and I as kids, much like popcorn out of the popcorn maker.
I dunno about the rest of the US, but here in MD you can still buy it! I just got some at my local Wal*Mart the other day, having become all excited because now they come in 2 packs!
I remember eating this stuff as a kid. We would always buy it for camping trips. Now I just buy it and make it over the stove. It’s a no-mess, easy clean up treat. But as others have already warned, DO NOT walk away from it! You need to be constantly moving the pan anyway, it even says so on the instructions, so why would anyone in their right mind walk away from it? LoL
They still make this. Several chain grocery stores in the United States still have this for sale in the same aisle as the microwave stuff.
I just saw many of these in my local grocery store today. No, I don’t live in Canada, I live in South Dakota. Could it be that Jiffy Pop is made in Iowa? Very close to us.
Never tried it. I keep thinking theres teeth in it.
look at the shape and then look at what it says in the middle…….”Pops Up Faster!” ahem…I think this one speaks for itself lol
I live in Southern California and a few days ago, I saw Jiffy Pop at my local Vons. The funny thing is, I haven’t seen it in years until last week, and they weren’t there the week before! Maybe I’ll get a few and make them so my son can see how they work.
Ruth Buzzy is so fricken annoying.
If you eat processed and/or packaged convenience foods, there’s gonna be some things in there that might sound scary. Even if they’re “all natural” or “organic” versions of additives.
The food processors have to use them to make the food shelf-stable and to keep it decent looking.
Try to keep it in perspective.
There’s a tablespoon or two max and a lot gets left in the Jiffy Pop foil popper. You split it several ways so your share isn’t a lot. How often are you going to eat Jiffy Pop?
There’s hardly enough to “course through your veins.”
An occasional Twinkie, Slim Jim, or other chemical bomb isn’t going to kill anybody or fill the Cardiac ICU at the local hospital.
It’s State Fair season. It would be un-American to skip funnel cakes, fried Coke, pork-chop-on-a-stick, fried Twinkies, corn dogs, and cotton candy.
Eat a good healthy diet on a regular basis and enjoy the fun every now and then.
Don’t make a habit of it.
All that rubbing on the electric burner caught my jiffy pop on fire once. Maybe I was doing it wrong. I was 7. It was terrifying.