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Jerry Chase
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Posts: 1068
From: Margate, FL, USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 02-19-2002 03:24 PM
Evans, like many others, I can't eat yeast. Yeast is a common food allergen. If you eat breads without problems, I would suspect you might have reacted to something else, like the oil. I had similar reactions to popcorn cooked in canola oil, which led me to do my research into the various oils used to make popcorn. The canola processors deny that the oil has anything in it that people will react to, but I've found I'm sensitive to slight traces of the component that was supposedly bred out of the rapeseed plants.However, I think the Regal theatres down here have switched back to coconut oil, so I'd suggest asking what oil and seasoning are used the next time you go to that theatre. This all should be a word of warning to managers that many customers have to choose very carefully what they eat. Switching to peanut oil without notifying customers could cause problems in people with peanut allergies. Adding things like yeast or celery salt to popcorn to "improve the flavor" isn't a good idea. JP, the link you included isn't up to your normal standards. It has lay people suggesting they have yeast allergy which is triggered by drinking alcohol. The rashes they describe are the common symptom of alcohol vasodilation. Chronic drinkers get a tell-tale permanent rosey flush to cheeks and nose from the same process. If even one of the posters had mentioned not being able to eat breads or certain food products, I would have taken the link a little more seriously. Yeast allergies and yeast infections (which can occur in many parts of the body) are entirely different issues. Often the person with a yeast allergy has yeast (candida) growing in the gut, and the allergy is an immune system response. Sugar and alcohol can make it worse, and a tell-tale test can be to eat a couple of cloves of fresh garlic, which can quickly provoke a hexemer reaction (yeast die off and released toxins). People who don't have a yeast problem can usually eat garlic without an adverse effect. A person with yeast who eats garlic may get sick, sleepy, or zonked immediately after eating it, and yet feel mysteriously great a couple of days later.
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Evans A Criswell
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From: Huntsville, AL, USA
Registered: Mar 2000
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posted 02-19-2002 04:12 PM
For the record, the night I went to that theatre and got sick afterwards was November 13, 1999. I dug up the record of that visit: quote:
st431-r16,1,1999/11/13,"Dogma",19:25,2,-1,"G1","Shutter ghosting at very top of image . (-1)","Dolby Digital. Excellent.","Auditorium width: 58 feet. Screen width 32 feet (flat mode), 41 feet (scope mode). Scope print (probably filmed Super35). All rows stadium style seating. Screen had cylindrical curvature."
I know that any number of things could have made me sick. I had a rather large cup of a pink lemonade type of drink along with the bag of popcorn. The headache and nausea that I experienced was very similar to the "MSG headaches" I used to get after eating Chinese food or too many Doritos, except this was more acute since it made me vomit. I'm not blaming the Regal Green Hills 16, since it could have been a virus I picked up, or something I ate a couple of hours earlier (I had a Chicken Strip basket at Dairy Queen). Since I've never had this sort of reaction from popcorn at any other time, it's hard to think that it was the popcorn. After that, the next time I went to the Regal River Oaks Cinema 8, since I know the manager quite well, I told him about the sickness episode and asked him questions about the popcorn and he explained everything that was used at his theatre. Of course, I've never had ill effects from his popcorn, or any other Regal or Carmike popcorn except Green Hills. It was probably a fluke occurrence and may have had nothing to do with anything at Green Hills 16.
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Jerry Chase
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From: Margate, FL, USA
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posted 02-19-2002 04:13 PM
"Galic is an excellent cure all "Mai oui! Certainment! Gallic est plus bon. aussi, Gaelic bheil brčagha! Deoch-sląinte. I have roots in both. 
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David Koegel
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From: Alexandria, VA
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 02-22-2002 08:10 AM
Speaking of popcorn machines, does anyone have any leads on tracking down one of those air-popped popcorn machines, originally made by the National Icee Corp (now owned by someone else, I believe). They were common in Kmart stores, back when they sold Icee drinks and sandwiches in most stores. The corn was hot air popped, landed on a tray coated with butter-flavored oil, and then dropped into the hopper. In my opinion, it made the best popcorn as the kernals were fully fluffed, not partially cooked. A used machine would be fine with me. Oh, and you can find this machine at some locations in the Minneapolis airport, particulary in one of the bars. Now how'd I know that? 
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