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What if we gave up too soon? (startrek.website)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 39 points 11 months ago (1 children)

We didn't explode corn. Corn exploded itself when we subjected it to the process we do with a lot of things: heat it up.

Out here acting like popcorn was discovered when we dropped a corncob on dynamite.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's almost as if misrepresenting the discovery of popcorn was the joke...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

It's almost as if I didn't think it was very fun, so I decided to riff on it...