Sunday, June 10, 2012

It's a Gift

Popcorn

Getting rid of gifts, one of everyone's least favorite categories, I'm sure.  The Kidlet gave this to me for Christmas 2007.  It was a thoughtful gift, as she was aware that I am extremely fond of popcorn.  I have in fact been using it for its intended purpose going on four and a half years now.  But you know what? I can just as easily eat popcorn out of one of my many, many mixing bowls, just like I always did before.  Attempting to justify keeping this bowl, I tried to use it to actually pop the corn in the microwave (which I won't be trying with my other bowls - metal and/or pre-microwave era), but apparently it isn't made for that (it *is* labeled dishwasher safe, and is *not* labeled microwave-safe), and for my troubles I got some strange sounds and burned food. 
It also doesn't hold very much.  I would consider this a plus if I was worried about portion control, but I don't consider that an issue with popcorn. 
Off to the donation box.

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