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WSUCougar
11-04-2005, 03:25 PM
We recently had a trivia night as a fundraiser (to help out a sick kid), and there was a bunch of food donated from various places. One place donated these huge bags of "movie style" popped popcorn.

Anyway, here's the thing. The amount of popcorn was listed in two forms, ounces and cubic inches. Keep in mind this is a BIG BAG. It said 48 ounces, and _____ cubic inches.

So the question of the day is: How many cubic inches of popped popcorn weighs 48 ounces?
SackAttack
11-04-2005, 03:26 PM
I'll go with 48.
Pumpy Tudors
11-04-2005, 03:29 PM
I'm going with 8000 on this one.
WSUCougar
11-04-2005, 03:41 PM
Too low, and too high.
Pumpy Tudors
11-04-2005, 03:44 PM
5682
Buzzbee
11-04-2005, 03:49 PM
6900
WSUCougar
11-04-2005, 03:49 PM
High and high
Masked
11-04-2005, 03:50 PM
2596
QuikSand
11-04-2005, 03:50 PM
3200
Warhammer
11-04-2005, 03:51 PM
I'll go with 24 cubic inches.
WSUCougar
11-04-2005, 03:52 PM
2596
Close enough! 2592

Just seemed like an unusual way of measuring food. So there ya go.
Masked
11-04-2005, 03:57 PM
Close enough! 2592

Just seemed like an unusual way of measuring food. So there ya go.
Ha, that is what my answer should have been, I just screwed up the math. I figured the bag was about 2ft tall and had a cylindrical base that had a 1ft diameter. To do the calculation (incorrectly) I just approximated pi to be 3.
dawgfan
11-04-2005, 04:13 PM
In a (very loosely) related note - I pissed-off a buddy of mine recently when we went to a first-showing last Sunday and told him about how, when I worked at a theater the summer before my first year of college, we would bag-up the popcorn at the end of the night and use that to fill the popcorn bin the next morning, since we wouldn't have enough time to pop-up enough fresh popcorn to fill the first popcorn orders of the day.

Didn't stop him from buying popcorn though... :)
wishbone
11-04-2005, 05:03 PM
Isn't that kind of disappointing? I was thinking wow, 3 lbs of popcorn!! I bet that would fill a room! But it only fills a 1.5 cubic foot box.

http://www.popcorn.org/encyclopedia/industry_facts.cfm
Processors consider the minimum expansion ratio for good popcorn to be 35 to 38 to one. However, some of today's improved hybrids will expand over 40 times
QuikSand
11-04-2005, 09:30 PM
Processors consider the minimum expansion ratio for good popcorn to be 35 to 38 to one. However, some of today's improved hybrids will expand over 40 times

Ahhh... my venerable ancestors of the pre-micro age. Some good work they did back in their day.
Passacaglia
11-05-2005, 08:08 PM
Isn't that kind of disappointing? I was thinking wow, 3 lbs of popcorn!! I bet that would fill a room! But it only fills a 1.5 cubic foot box.

http://www.popcorn.org/encyclopedia/industry_facts.cfm
Processors consider the minimum expansion ratio for good popcorn to be 35 to 38 to one. However, some of today's improved hybrids will expand over 40 times

I initially read that as professors. I wish I could be a popcorn professor.
WSUCougar
11-05-2005, 08:10 PM
Is this thread still alive? DIE, THREAD, DIE!!!
Dutch
11-05-2005, 08:50 PM
I need to buy me some Jiffy Pop. I loved making that when I was a kid.
Loren
11-05-2005, 09:02 PM
well i know that my ass just kinda exploded and it's all cuz off movie popcorn :(
Karlifornia
11-05-2005, 09:07 PM
well i know that my ass just kinda exploded and it's all cuz off movie popcorn :(


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MikeVic
11-05-2005, 09:09 PM
well i know that my ass just kinda exploded and it's all cuz off movie popcorn :(

Mmmm exploding ass.