Ranking Microwave Popcorn | Bless Your Rank
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- Bless Your Rank has popped back up for an extra snackalicious episode featuring everyone's favorite microwaved delicacy, popcorn. See which corn takes the crown as Matt eats and ranks Pop-Secret, Cousin Willie's, Orville Redenbacher, ACT II, Jolly Time, and Piggly Wiggly's store brand.
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You forgot the other kind of person who stands at the microwave and listens till it starts to get 5 seconds+ between pops. I thought everyone did this.
This is me.
Same
And see how fast you can hit the minute plus and start buttons to see if more will pop
I have no idea how long to do it so you sit and watch😂😂
I set it for 2 minutes, then sit and listen.
Fun fact : Act I popcorn had to be refrigerated because it was made with real butter and was introduced in 1981
Oh wow older than me but not as much as I thought
I kind of want to try that one now
@ I think they discontinued it in 1984 when Act II was launched
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_II_(popcorn)#:~:text=Act%20II%20is%20an%20American,taste%20of%20movie%20theater%20popcorn.
👏 😮 I was about to google it.
Cousin Willie's monologue at the end was the best 😂
So glad I stuck around for it. Now to explain to my boss why I'm late...
@@W4DSolutions Cousin Willie needed help. ( Family Emergency)
Amazing grace in the background killed me. 😂
I was in tears of laughter.
Amen to that!
Orville died in his hot tub in 1995 at the age of 88, but his popcorn legacy lives on. Always been my personal favorite microwave popcorn.
My father knew him; he was a power grid engineer & designed the electrical system that powered his factory in northern Indiana.
I really like the fact that they make the small portion size. I am diabetic so I cannot eat a huge amount of popcorn as a snack. My husband usually eats some of the small portion but non-buttered popcorn is actually one of the healthiest snacks out there. I use a flavored herb-salt mix too.
They used to make one with a pour on butter packet, that was really good,but I haven't seen it in a long time 😕
We all know it was a hot tub filled with butter.
Matt, you don't have to go into a movie just to buy movie theater popcorn. you don't even need a ticket, just walk in and buy some. Let that sink in for a minute. just stop by the theater, buy a large popcorn and take it home for your snacking pleasure!
I wish I could do this! Everywhere I’ve gone the concession stand is after you show your ticket to get in.
I've done it....multiple times
Depends on the theater and sometimes the day. Like, Friday nights places might be a bit more strict on where you show your ticket because they don't want people (primarily teenagers) hanging out in the lobby waiting for the ticket taker to look away.
good business model since theaters main profit is from concessions. where i'm at the ticket counter's the first thing you hit. too afraid someone might snag an empty seat if they let them in just to go buy popcorn. even if they're making 10x more from the popcorn than the ticket.
I had a shop teacher in Middle School that would do that during his lunch sometimes. So every so often we could get a handful of popcorn during homeroom. Those were good days
I'm a rogue .
I still use a pan with oil and dry kernels .
The difference is the oil .
I use butter and bacon grease .
It doesn't keep vampires away but on a quiet night , you can hear the cardiologists screaming in abject terror .
Oooh
Bacon grease. I may try it 😊😊
This is the way.
I have bacon grease! Always have butter. Sounds like a suggestion I need to try!
I haven't tried bacon grease, but butter works great. The popcorn tough like it is with oil. I imagine bacon grease is even better. Thank for the tip🙂
We use coconut oil and then just dump butter onto it after the popcorn is done. Works out really well.
Oh, and we usually try to get the Amish popcorn. Stuff costs just about as much as generic brand bags, pound for pound, and is SO much better
Who remembers Jiffy Pop?! We would get that some of the time, but it was definitely more expensive than just popping your corn in a pot. THEN we got a popcorn popper! It was a heated plate (like a hot plate) that had a huge plastic (see-through yellow, of course). You would put the popcorn kernels and oil on the plate and put the lid on and turn it on. Once they were through popping, you turned it upside down, took off the plate and added any butter you melted separately.
I’m actually going to get a popcorn popper. We don’t eat microwave popcorn and doing it in a pot on top of the stove makes a mess.
My local grocery store still sella Jiffy Pop.
Jiffy Pop is fun to make! As a little kid, I was fascinated by the popping and the expanding aluminum. That popcorn was a special treat. My family was poor, but Mom would find change and save it. Now I need to go find some Jiffy Pop. It always tasted sooo good when Mom made it. RIP, Mom❤❤.
I love the "By the way if you are under the age of 30 you won't get a single reference today!" 🤣"Most of TH-cam is yours but THIS IS FOR MILLENNIALS" 😊
A synopsis about Orville. Born & educated in Indiana, he was a food scientist who specialized in hybrids. He focused on popcorn and chose one he named RedBow. He stared his own company in 1970 and starred in his commercials. Six years later he sold the company to Hunt-Wesson and it was eventually acquired by giant food producer Con Agra. His popcorn, in my option, is the best on the market.
As someone who has spent an embarrassing amount of time trying different brands of kernals (trying to create the perfect homemade movie theatre popcorn), I strongly agree Orville has got the best popcorn kernals
Rickenbocker (what I call Orville) is so good! My siblings and my fav!
Wasn't a big selling point of Orville's microwave popcorn something about having very few un-popped kernels in the bag? I think I read that somewhere.
The Orville movie theater one is as about as close as possible to movie theater. Imo. That being
G said it still does t even come close to movie popcorn. But of the microwave it’s the closest
He also died in his hot tub
The more delicate popcorn like Jolly Time usually are a white kernel type, which is smaller, pops into a delicate snowflake and the kernels are much less hard and don't get stuck in the teeth as much.
The robust firm popcorn is a yellow corn type. They are bigger, they pop bigger, they have a lot more to them. They tend to pop into the "perfect" popcorn shape that is easy to eat, round, doesn't get busted up so easily so can handle the commercial tough use.
Kernel type makes as much difference as flavorings. :)
My lovely grandmother turned 101 on Jan 9th! She still loves pop corn! And, she gets a good laugh out of watching you, Matt! She's lived in Huntsville, Al, since 1957 when she moved from Aberdeen, MD. She and my Grandpap worked with the space program after meeting at the proving ground testing tanks during WW2! Were married 48 yrs before he passed in 1991. She's a beautiful woman who comes from a long line of long-lived people. I pray she has many more years to go! God bless you and your family, and may He bless Grandma for the time she has left with us!
My great grandma also had her birthday on Jan 9th. She lived to be 103 in Guntersville, AL. Must be something in the water. I miss her.
Many more years? She's 101. Let the poor woman rest.😂
I live in Huntsville who. We have a lot of great older folks around here!
Bless her. You are so fortunate to have her - you should record the many life stories she has accumulated.❤
Bless Your Rank is one of my favorite series.
There was an Act 1. When it first came out it contained real butter and came refrigerated. The Act II followed as shelf stable
For real?
@@kaylahensley1581yes for real
Wait.....refrigerated? Fascinating!
Bring back ACT I!!😢😅😅😅
Orville Redenbacher's ULTIMATE BUTTER popcorn for the win! I tried the one you ranked, OR's BUTTER, and it was just lacking. My son is autistic and he approves of the ULTIMATE BUTTER as well.
Literally everything about the Cousin Willy section is pure comedy gold!
I'm gonna yell to my wife tonight "Come here honey and get some of Cousin Willy's buttery explosion." Totally stealing the line.
I was shocked at how good the Kirkland popcorn was. And my microwave sensor actually works and leaves me with just a few kernels. Beautiful.
Witchcraft!
Came here to say this. I love Kirkland popcorn!
yep kirkland popcorn is the best not even close. you just have to buy 72 bags at once....
Lucky!
I had a microwave sensor that did that once! I don't trust the one on this one... Maybe I should give it a try again.
Piggly Wiggly search engines skyrocketed past 5000% after this episode
That worked on me. I learned that Piggly Wiggly's corporate headquarters are in New Hampshire, even though there are no stores in New Hampshire...or anywhere in New England, for that matter.
I’m going to see if there’s still a piggly wiggly just across the state line.
Bless YOUR rank. Gotta be the #1 funnest and funniest hillbilly ranking videos on the interwebs!
As a PROUD millennial, I really appreciated all the references to my childhood today. I especially enjoyed the NSYNC “ dirty pop” reference at the beginning 😂😂
Homemade stovetop popcorn with melted salted butter has become my go to favorite way to eat popcorn.
I use Amish Country brand Baby White popcorn, cooked in Coconut oil and I add Flavocol to the mix before popping. Then melt a stick of butter for drizzling over the popcorn. It's delicious.
No outside oil, cook it straight with Country Crock. You won't need to add butter after just salt.
@@madogthefirstthat’s because country crock is just vegetable oil, which is what “popcorn butter” is without the popcorn seasoning flavor.
@megazombiekiller9000 actually a bit more to it than that.
The name "Act II" for the popcorn brand originates from its predecessor, "Act I." In 1981, Golden Valley Microwave Foods introduced Act I, a microwave popcorn product that required refrigeration due to its real butter content. Building upon this, in 1984, they developed a shelf-stable version that didn't need refrigeration and named it Act II, signifying the next stage or "act" in their product development.
13:09 history lesson with an engineering student time. A bunch of high end microwaves started to come with a moisture sensor inside them and to advertise this feature they started to include a popcorn buttton as it would use the sensor to detect when it was perfectly popped and stop the machine. So than cheaper brands started to include a "popcorn button" but since they didn't have a moisture sensor they would just cook it for a set time that was the average time the popcorn companies recommend. So the button can do something, just not every model has the ability to cook popcorn properly.
Cousin Willie just earned a subscriber. So glad my life means something now.
Thanks for another blessin', Matt! Always fun! Truly laughed right out loud at cousin Willie's pep talk at the end 😂
That boy scout popcorn was pretty good back in the day, even when you would find a bag that was in the cabinet for like 10 years.
I’m the person with the jar of kernels. Brown paper lunch bag, 1/4c of kernels, & a wooden skewer to hold the bag closed. Microwave until the popping stops. Popcorn perfection 😁🍿
I feel slightly embarrassed…stood outside and yelled I like cool shirts…Matt didn’t show but the cops did…and boy let me tell you there merch sucks…and those silver bracelet were a tight fit.
😅 Thanks for the video Matt!
Lol😂
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Yeah why would he lie to us like that? Unsubscribed😂😂😂
As the Bard of skidrow Charles Bukowski said, "I don't like jail. They got the wrong kind of bars in there."
@@ronprickett8011 🤣
There is not a microwave popcorn in existence that is as good as using a whirley-pop on the stove. Every popcorn bag out of the microwave becomes hard and doesn't chew as easy as properly popped popcorn. It doesn't take long to pop on the stove, it's just better.
The Whirley Pop is a game changer!
Whirley pop with Great Northern Popcorn.
Whirley pop + Snappy Coconut Popping Oil + 1 tsp of Flavacol then drizzle with Orvelle Reddenbokker Butter flavored topping oil it's just like the theaters. Love it.
You have NO IDEA how much i appreciate the NSYNC reference. My young heart sings🥹
Bless you! You guys are not THAT old! It really gets better as you get older❤❤ Jiffy Pop rules!
Im just happy you're back with another Bless Your Rank buddy!!
I live in Ramsey Indiana. Cousin Willie (RIP) used to come to our football game.
Many of the other brands grow their popcorn in the field across the road.
Cousin Willy has to be at the end of every Bless your Rank now... well, until you get the cease and desist... but until then, yes.
A new Bless Your Rank! Starting the week off right!
Cousin Willie's speech at the end was stirring! I'm from Indiana and it made me proud, even if his popcorn didn't.
thank you for all the easy to understand references. i appreciate knowing what you're talking about.
This is by far my favorite series on the internet
I'm sure these are all good, but here we use a paper sandwich bag and popcorn, hit the microwave popcorn button, and add fresh melted butter and salt. No chemical taste.
Pop secret homestyle is where it's at! More salt, less fake butter. It's delicious!
Yes, I agree!!!
Did you know that is a very accurate drawing of Orville Redenbacher? I remember him from the commercials.
Thanks, Cousin Willie.
At the end, every Southerner's favorite hymn, 🎶Amazing Grace🎶 is the universal "it's over" song. 😂
The end was so funny! I couldn't stop laughing!
0:00 already a banger. I love Popcorn!! It is buttery and salty and tasty!!! Do more videos like this please!! Pop Secret is good what you talking bout. NGL All popcorn is good.
Since I am not a sports person or a southerner I really enjoy your bless your ranks!
A new Matt video to start our week off right. Hope you and your beautiful girls are doing well.
True story!! My daughter worked for a national theater chain that rhymes with Smeagol... She was tasked with making popcorn, and the butter flavoring wasn't called any such thing as "butter flavor." on the industrial box it is called "Golden topping flavor."
100% serious! (Since that day, I've been a bit concerned about ingesting it.)
Pop Secret created a variety of colored popcorn called Pop Qwiz in the early-1990s. Colors included yellow, blue, green, and a mystery bag with a surprise color.
lol.
Yeah and my dog that liked popcorn would barf it up because of the coloring.
Killing it again Matt! I'm amazed you ranked Piggly Wiggly and agree 100%. If you ever want the best popcorn you can make, get a Stir Crazy and use bacon grease as the oil. Popcorn heaven!
OMG! I posted before Uncle Willie's words of wisdom, I'm dying!!!
I pop popcorn by the 3 second rule. Once it stops popping for 3 seconds it's done. None of it is burned, and there are like maybe 5 unpoped kernels.
Matt, you are doing the Lord's work.
Orville Redenbacher was Colonel Sanders, after he entered the witness protection program. To keep his cover he had to give up chicken and he lost weight.
😂🤣❤
Who knew popcorn could be funny! Bless Cousin Willie.
Here you go Matt, the story of act I and act II popcorn. Act II is an American brand of microwave popcorn that is ostensibly based on the look and taste of movie theater popcorn. It is currently made and distributed by Conagra Brands. Act II was preceded in the popcorn market by Act I (popcorn in theaters), an early microwave popcorn that had to be stored in the refrigerator due to its real butter content. Act I was introduced in 1981. In 1984, Act II, a shelf stable microwave popcorn was released, becoming the first mass-marketed microwave popcorn.
I love the Screech vs AC Slater comparison 😂
10:41 "are you serious?" the fact the crew was in disbelief.
YES! ANOTHER LONGER VIDEO! Thank goodness for a longer video, these are always my favorite!!!
Great video. Store brands seem to be just as good or better anymore. I used to work as a truck driver in the food service industry. One of my occasional backhauls was microwave popcorn. Picked up out of big factory in Missouri. All kinds were made in that place, been 20 years so can't remember the name of the place anymore. But row after row lined up of different brands, both name and store, on that abysmally hot loading dock. I'd run my reefer units so when they opened the doors a blast of cold air would roll through the dock. They usually got me out of there faster due to the courtesy. But i digress. On their manufacturing line, their test lab would randomly select lots off the line to test. After testing, these lots (cases in which only a couple packs ere pulled out to test of each case) were stacked on pallets. And employees and others were free to take a case or just some packs, up to them. There was a brand that was either bound for Mexico that I was given. There was so much butter in it the microwave pack was stained with it and the package was squishy, like it was filled with playdough. Pretty sure my arteries clogged up a bit just holding it... But it was amazing. I am not a popcorn person. But that popcorn was, and to this day, the best I've ever had..
Could it have been the munchies kickin in after the reefer consumption?😂
@@debgordon6542 actually made me lol. As why its so funny is the refrigeration units on the trailer had it somewhere between 0 and -20 depending on how far i travelled to get there. So when the trailer door was opened a bunch of them would gather around. Accompanying that blast of cold air was a wave of fog from the temperature difference, looking very much like a truckload had been smoked. Those guys on the docks there in the summer had it a bit rough. So hot they had stations every couple of docks with a few water coolers, along with dispensers for some sort of gatorade stuff to add to the water, as well as boxes of salt pills.
@@Mandurath You know it's hot as h*ll when they're giving out salt tablets. Thanks for all your hard work. It is certainly appreciated ❣️
@@Mandurath btw the opening of the trailer doors must've looked like something from a Cheech and Chong movie 🤣
When I was in High School my science teacher explained to us the reason OR is so good is because of where the popcorn is grown. It grows (or used to be) on the farms around Valparaiso Indiana. Valpo is just the right distance from lake Michigan that the growing season is extended so the corn can fully grow and dry out before being harvested.
I know it is probably considered a sin but most southerners but I would love to see you do boxed Mac and cheese
Gen X here got all the references!! Also Microwave Kettle corn is best!
The AMC popcorn may be the best movie theater adaptation of cinema popcorn.
Coming this spring to your screens:
"Popped: The Cousin Willie Story"
Starring Sam Elliott as your (least) favorite popcorn man
The best popcorn is the Orville movie theater butter pour over😊😊
I love it and haven't been able to find it for a long time. Do they still make it?
I'm just here for the 0:27 Popp-ed corn !!!!!..... love this man ❤
Nothing beats burnt popcorn made on the stove, like God intended corn to be enjoyed 😁
That ending was some Eric Andre level stuff😂
Conagra is spending every moment regretting deeply leaving their premium digs and charmed position in Omaha to go to Chicago. 😂😂😂
Yep, they made a big mistake moving out of Omaha. It’s not like they even get better weather now.
@ They had THE nicest offices in Omaha and were princes of the city. There was nothing Omaha would not happily bend over triple and give them. Their employees could wander out at 3am into the Warehouse District and were safer, much safer than they are now in their Chicago homes with an armed guard on the front door.
You are truly my favorite TH-camr. Its not just a click....love it!!
Little tip: most theaters will let you just go to the concession stand without a movie ticket and buy popcorn to take home!!! Found that out when my wife was pregnant with our last one!
Say what now? I was just wondering about that last week. Thought I might have to bribe a ticket holder to get me some 😂
@@ronaldwade1946 a theater near my house growing up would sell literal garbage bags full of popcorn. 🤣🤣🤣 They were like $10 in the 90s. It was fresh and edible, they just sold it in huge clear garbage bags.
The theater doesn't actually make money on ticket sales. They pay basically 100% of that to the studios that produce the films. All of the rest of their operating costs, as well as whatever profit they can squeeze out, come from concessions. That is why their stuff costs 6 times as much as what seems reasonable. They charge that much because they have to, to pay their staff and the bills.
Receiving an inspiring message from Cousin Willie himself was not on my 2025 bingo card.
As a 2000 baby, Blockbuster and Saved By the Bell was my childhood!
Great to see you again. Loved this popcorn episode.
I don't think you can beat the taste of freshly made popcorn.
This has to be my favorite bless your ranked. I take popcorn very seriously and my freshman year of college, I ate an ungodly number of bags of microwavable popcorn so I know the feeling of scraping the side of the bag to get all that good butter.
The best popcorn is the one sold at Disney parks. I don’t know what they put in it, but it makes theater popcorn taste like Cousin Willie’s cousin made it.
Fairy dust from Tinker Bell flying overhead perhaps? 😂
The best review you have done yet “I need a shirt now that says don’t ask how the feet taste”
-guy behind the camera
Orville was from Indiana and graduated from Purdue University. So not only are you importing Big10 weather, but you're also importing our popcorn.
I gave up on microwave popcorn a LONG time ago. But this was still funny! 🤣
Act II is an American brand of microwave popcorn that is ostensibly based on the look and taste of movie theater popcorn. It is currently made and distributed by Conagra Brands. Act II was preceded in the popcorn market by Act I (popcorn in theaters), an early microwave popcorn that had to be stored in the refrigerator due to its real butter content. Act I was introduced in 1981. In 1984, Act II, a shelf stable microwave popcorn was released, becoming the first mass-marketed microwave popcorn. (Edit: yes I copied and pasted from Wikipedia and therefore I do not own the answer, however I did not claim to own it. I simply answered the question on act popcorn like I would have if I was physically present. I do the research and then read aloud from the website. I do not claim to be special or anything of the sort for answering a question.)
ConAgra seems to make most of the processed foods in this country-especially the canned stuff like Chef Boyardee, Dennison's Chili and Rosarita.
copy pasting wikipedia doesn't make you special
Opinions vary , as does the definition of " special " . Just sayin ..
@@rucker69 never said I was, I provided the information to the man on the video, yes by copy and paste but still I went and looked up the information.
Fun review as always. My favorite, which was not reviewed, is Pop Secret Homestyle. I don't like all of the butter, double butter, dripping with butter, Oddles of butter, and "eating sticks of butter". The Homestyle has a great taste and you guessed it, without all the butter. I have been known to add "real" melted butter on my Homestyle, but typically, its just good by itself.
Orville Redenbacher = Don Knotts with glasses!
I'm an air pop popcorn person these recent years. It's healthier, but you can add as much melted butter as you want if you don't want the healthy. Favorite popcorn of all time to me is either kettle corn popcorn or caramel popcorn made in the giant copper pots at fairs.
In the Cheese Curd episode, you said that Wisconsin might be the Alabama of the North. And let me tell you, the Pig is still popular up here 😅🙌🏻
I live in Central Alabama. If I yell loud enough, Matt might just show up with a shirt for me! Lol
1:25 i also make popcorn by hitting the "microwave button"
Movie theater worker in 1988: the oil was scary orange stuff. The butter was "butter flavoring". The best batches had one round burnt. The machines would seriously burn you if you didn't treat it like a ticking bomb. We'd drive huge clear bags of popped popcorn to other theaters.
And I had to go to an upsell presentation - it's only $$ more to get the next size!
I was fully expecting to hear Cousin Willie say: "Each time you hit the SUBSCRIBE and LIKE, an angel gets its wings!" Bless his heart.
I've turned so many people onto Cousin Willie's popcorn! It's so satisfying!
Just so you are aware, you can just go get movie theatre popcorn and not even buy a ticket to the movies. My husband does it all the time because he also thinks movie theatre popcorn is the best. He just brings it home to eat it.
I'm old enough to remember the days before pre-bagged microwave popcorn (of which Orville Redenbacher started), when my family and I just shoved popcorn kernels into a brown lunch bag and put it in the microwave. I remember burning tf out of a bag of it due to me continuing to cook it when I heard kernels still popping when the microwave went off. Never did that again. lol (I seem to recall when OR brought out the microwave popping corn, it seemed as if it was in a bag that resembled a lunch bag, harkening back to my family.)
I've delivered popcorn from the movie theatre for DoorDash.
That's wild. They should advertise this!!
As always you bring the laughs. I laughed so hard at the Cousin Willy brand. Sadly / Thankfully we don’t have that brand here in CA. I was a little distracted also by the Colonel Sanders figurine in the back. Epic.
You know, a man's got choices in this life, some easy, some hard. Subscribing and ringing that bell might seem small, trivial even, but every now and then a choice can echo longer than you'd expect. Sometimes you make choices that'll shift the winds of fate, said a man on a path he didn't know he needed. It ain't just a click, partner, it's a declaration, a step into the unknown where greatness waits for those brave enough to take it. You do that, and trust me, your life won't just change, it'll mean something.
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The smells like feet got me...... Thanks for the laughs 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I subscribed to see more Cousin Willie!
Oh, come on man! Cousin Willies Buttery Explosion is not just the best microwave popcorn, ever, but it's second only to hot fresh theater popcorn. Definitely better than bank popcorn or feed store popcorn.
ConAgra actually owns a chunk of the popcorn market including Act II, Angie's, Crunch & Munch, Fiddle Faddle, Jiffy POP, Orville Redenbacher's, Poppycock, and Vogel.
I bought some Crunch 'n Munch last week. It's always been my favorite sweet popcorn. I can't put my finger on it, but something changed and it's not as good even as it was last year!
"Matt, how do you know what feet taste like?" *He sucks his fingers* REX RYAN ENERGY 😮
the cousin willie bit at the end was great!
Was not mentally prepared for the esoteric Cousin Willie speech at the end wtf