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Showing posts with label inherited traits. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inherited traits. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

The genetics of popcorn eating

Question: How do you eat popcorn?
Do you eat it like a debutante, picking one piece at a time off the pile and carefully poking it into your mouth?
Or do you grab a big handful of it and shove it in like it's the last food you're ever going to eat?
Or maybe you're somewhere in the middle and you grab just a couple of pieces and eat them as a respectable human being would.
Unfortunately, I fall into the second category. My dad, who loves popcorn, always ate it that way and, naturally, I followed in his footsteps.
The other day I was watching a movie on Netflix, so I threw some popcorn in the microwave. Nothing like a nice warm bowl of popcorn to enhance the movie-watching experience, right?