NOT THE SHARPEST KNIFE IN THE DRAWER: One Popcorn Kernel Short Of A Bucket
Manhattan Civil Court Judge Matthew F. Cooper ruled against insurance broker Steve Kaplan, who sued the AMC-Lincoln Square Cinema for $1,000 to repair a tooth he broke on an unpopped kernel while watching “Superbad,” on the grounds that his expectations of finding all the kernels perfectly popped are “unreasonable,” reports New York Law Journal. While NY law permits recompense for dental damage caused by objects in food, Cooper wrote that the “foreign/natural test has fully given way to the reasonable expectation doctrine.” He added: “Anyone who has ever made fresh popcorn ... soon learns the bitter truth that the final product is almost always marred by the presence of unpopped, partially popped or burnt kernels.”
Editorial Note: Did you know that unpopped kernels are known as “spinsters”? It seems kinda sexist to The Stiletto. Why don’t they call them “bachelorettes”?
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