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Have another camping trip for next week, can't find jiffy pop at any stores in the east valley. Any idea where ?

whats jiffy pop?

Nighthiker wrote:Have another camping trip for next week, can't find jiffy pop at any stores in the east valley. Any idea where ?

What! Cannot find Jiffy Pop? Almost unamerican, down right bad. Terrible. I wish you luck in your quest.


matt, maybe this will help:
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/2772/jiffy.html

matt gilbert wrote:whats jiffy pop?

back in the mid seventies...
fear of radiation ovens died out and the term "microwave" became more popular as ma & pa decided you wouldn't become sterile from microwaving food

...at any rate, before microwave popcorn there was JIFFY POP!
still useable on a campfire whereas the microwave bags emit a fireworks type display

How funny. I saw Jiffy Pop at the Target on Power and the 60 just the other day. Brought back fond memories.

matt gilbert wrote:whats jiffy pop?

OK, now I feel old.

I remember jiffy pop

Billy wrote:I remember jiffy pop

Who remembers the name of the magician on the old commercial? Probably when you only had a black and white T.V.

In response to mike t's reply:

Blackstone the magician...

errr... feeling kind of "old" right about now... well, not really... ok, kinda sorta...

[/b]HikerInGilbert wrote:

errr... feeling kind of "old" right about now... well, not really... ok, kinda sorta...


We're not old! Are we? Please say it's not so. Well, one thing I do know, we will only be as old as we are now, only one time in our life.

HikerInGilbert wrote:In response to mike t's reply:

Blackstone the magician...

errr... feeling kind of "old" right about now... well, not really... ok, kinda sorta...

Give that man a cigar... and a wheelchair.

You guys aren't old. I'm "only" 25 and I remember Jiffy Pop like I was eating it yesterday. Heck, maybe I was...
Nobody really explained the Jiffy Pop packaging to Matt Gilbert. Instead of just a bag like we're all used to, Jiffy Pop was in a round tin, like a pie tin, and it had a flimsy handle like one of those small pots you use to boil water when you're camping. The top of the tin was covered with some sort of space blanket material that expanded when the corn started to pop. Most people made it on the stove burner, and obviously, it was popular to take camping too.
If I'm wrong about any of this feel free to correct me. After all, I'm "only" 25.

Jiffy Pop was so much fun, my brother and I would stand next to the stove top watching Dad pop our Jiffy pop popcorn in amazement as the foil would expand into a giant ball of steaming foil

Billy wrote:Jiffy Pop was so much fun, my brother and I would stand next to the stove top watching Dad pop our Jiffy pop popcorn in amazement as the foil would expand into a giant ball of steaming foil

It was actually kind of ingenious. Who in their right mind could have come up with something like that?

The "bulbous" final product was actually kind of neat to watch. You really had to "watch it" or the final deal was overdone kernels. It took some real finesse.

I remember I tried to duplicate the whole process once with a homemade rig. Can we talk disaster?? :roll:

mike t wrote:

HikerInGilbert wrote:In response to mike t's reply:

Blackstone the magician...

errr... feeling kind of "old" right about now... well, not really... ok, kinda sorta...

Give that man a cigar... and a wheelchair.

Ok... ok... but, do you remember eating it while watching Batman and Robin on the old Zenith in B&W? I can remember playing Twister with my neighborhood friends while doing it all at once! Boy, was my brain cell talented back then...

In response to Matt Hoffman's reply:

You know, I think I do remember that stuff, barely...

In response to Nighthiker's reply:

We purchased some back in June at Fry's in Gilbert. They had plenty. Hope this helps

I remember Batman and Robin! But my favorite was Lost in Space, I wanted to grow up and be like Major West.

We did not buy Jiffy Pop when I was a kid, we popped the kernels in a pan. Cheaper, or so my mom said.

Abe wrote:I remember Batman and Robin! But my favorite was Lost in Space, I wanted to grow up and be like Major West.

We did not buy Jiffy Pop when I was a kid, we popped the kernels in a pan. Cheaper, or so my mom said.

OMG! I sure do remember Batman and Robin, "to the bat cave Robin" and all the -- zap, pow! #@!!, and other remarks printed out.

Lost in Space was fun to watch. Didn't someone say that it was filmed in AZ? I saw a rerun recently, it was definitely a low budget series.

My neighbor's Mom made us Jiffy pop, one night she was kinda feeling no pain and forgot to take the cardboard top off! Jimmy and I laughed forever! Fun times growing up.

Sherileeaz

I did watch Batman and Robin, but my parents got rid of the B&W TV when I was still very young. I do remember jiffy pop. Had it alot as a child. Probably why I don't like popcorn now. I thought I saw some at Costco a while back. Good luck!