Popcorn

Popcorn (popped corn, popcorns or pop-corn) is a variety of corn kernel, which expands and puffs up when heated.
A popcorn kernel's strong hull contains the seed's hard, starchy endosperm with 14–20% moisture, which turns to steam as the kernel is heated. Pressure from the steam continues to build until the hull ruptures, allowing the kernel to forcefully expand from 20 to 50 times its original size—and finally, cool.Some strains of corn (taxonomized as Zea mays) are cultivated specifically as popping corns. The Zea mays variety everta, a special kind of flint corn, is the most common of these.
The six major types of corn are dent corn, flint corn, pod corn, popcorn, flour corn, and sweet corn.

Food

We all gotta eat, right? Lists of your favorite things to stuff in your face, ranked.

Food Glorious Food

Part of the fun of traveling is stuffing your face with the cuisines and treats of the locals. These lists rank the most delicious, must-try foods wherever you'll be.

Food Around the World

Popular Opinion

Everyone has a favorite food. Maybe yours is mac n' cheese, or steak, or even sushi. But does your favorite rank among the best food in the world? This list has been cultivated and voted on by food lovers everywhere, which means that this ranking&nbsp;of the best foods ever is based on your opinion. Anyone can add their <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/best-foods/ranker-food?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">favorite foods</a> to this list, which makes these mouthwatering rankings an accurate, real-time rundown of the tastiest treats on Earth.See how your taste stacks up against the rest of the community. You can influence the order of this list of the tastiest food in the world by voting up your favorite foods.&nbsp;Warning: side effects of viewing or adding to this list include extreme hunger, drooling, and a desire for delicious treats.

Lasagne

The Most Delicious Foods in the World

Ranker Community

What makes you feel better when you&#39;re sick, down or just need your food to give you a big hug? What foods do you turn to when you&#39;re curled up on the couch on a cold evening? Comfort food is usually food prepared traditionally with a nostalgic or sentimental value.

Many comfort foods have soft consistencies and are full of salts, butters and fats. But not always! Whatever food comforts you the most? That&#39;s a comfort food.

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Pancakes

The Most Comforting Comfort Food

Best Comfort Food | List of Most Popular Comforting Foods

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It’s a question asked by kids at sleepovers and by bored office workers around the world. If you could only eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be? Don’t blurt out the first thing that comes to your head, because the answer may not be as simple as you think. Maybe pizza is the first thing you think of, but can you truthfully say that you won’t miss the satisfying, perfect bite that you only get with a giant plate of nachos? This entire list is a Sophie’s choice of delicious food, and it will drive you insane with just a glance, setting your stomach rumbling. If you think you’re up to the challenge, throw out your concept of healthy eating, undo the top button on your jeans, and vote up the one food that you would eat for the rest of your life. Foodies have long discussed the one best food they would happily eat until they departed this mortal coil. Some people get fancy with it and choose a forever meal of a lone quail egg. Other folks, who aren’t afraid to get trashy with their bad selves, decide they’re going to eat nothing but bean burritos until eternity. But now it’s your turn to decide what one food you’ll eat for the rest of your life.Vote here on your favorite forever food, and if there’s some weird regional grub that isn't already listed, run it up the flag pole and see if anyone salutes it.

Steak

If You Could Only Eat One Food for the Rest of Your Life...

Favorite Foods | Food You Could Eat for Every Meal

Ranker Food

Lists that rank the many delicious and decadent things you shove into your mouth by the handful, straight from the bag, off the stick, out of the bin, etc. Yum.

Snacks, Sweets, Candy & Treats

List of the best movie theater snacks, ranked by movie-watchers, snack-lovers, and people like you. &quot;Let's All Go To The Lobby, Let's All Go To The Lobby, Let's All Go to The Lobbeeeee To Get Ourselves A Snack!&quot; We all have our favorite munchies that we enjoy while watching movies. What are the best mopvie snacks? This list includes the most popular movie theater candy as well as salty snacks, drinks, and frozen snacks - all types of movie theater food. What do you eat as you watch movies?

M&Ms

The Best Movie Theater Snacks

Best Movie Theater Candy | List of Movie Snacks

The best snacks in the world including the best salty snacks, the best sweet snacks, and the guiltiest indulgences, many of which you can find in <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/best-subscription-boxes-for-snack-lovers/ranker-shopping" target="_blank">monthly subscription boxes for snack lovers</a>. These foods of convenience rank among the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-most-delicious-foods-in-the-world">best foods in the world</a> for their simplicity and complexity alike, and the majority of these tasty snack foods are also some of the most addictive and tastiest foods on the planet.Be it a between meal nosh or a pre-game array, snacking is truly an art form: the perfect marriage of convenience and sustenance. Whether you fall into the guilt-free snack school (where sliced apples and natural popcorn take top snacks positions) or the big flavors equal better snacking camp (Cool Ranch Doritos! Chicken nachos with spicy guacamole! Easy Cheeeese!), this list of the best foods for snacking should give you some ideas for foods to add to your shopping list for snacking convenience. This list includes all the best snacks for lunches, between meal snacks, snacks for kids, and low calorie snack options.What are the best light snacks? What are the best movie snacks? What are the best munchies? This list of the greatest snacks ever seeks to take a bite out of these questions by uniting snackers around the world in a quest to determine what the best snacks are. Vote up the foods you consider to be the greatest snacks and vote down those you don't think deserve the title of top snack food. If you don't see your favorite snacks on the list, make sure to add them.If you're looking for snacking opportunities outside the home, consult the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/your-favorite-movie-snacks">best movie snacks list</a>. If you want to wax nostalgic about snack foods past, check out <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/the-greatest-discontinued-1990s-foods-and-beverages/brian-gilmore">the greatest discontinued snack foods of the '90s</a>. One thing is for sure, you'll find much more that just the top 10 snack foods here!Snackers worldwide unite...what's in YOUR kitchen cabinets?

Nuts

The Very Best Snacks to Eat Between Meals, Ranked

Best Snacks | Most Delicious Snack List

Finally, a definitive ranking of the most deleicious carbs to eat. If you are on the keto diet, please go away, this isn&#39;t&nbsp;for you at all. This list is for the bread lovers. The French fry fiends. The brownie loyalists. If you love to eat carbs and don&#39;t care who knows it, please vote below for the best carb foods.

Are carbs bad for you? Well, isn&#39;t anything bad for you if you eat too much of it? Have a carb every now and then and see how you feel. Carbs come in many forms like grilled cheese sandwiches, macaroni and cheese, and even other cheese/bread combos. Some are &quot;good carbs&quot; like vegetables and lentils, but is that why you&#39;re here? Are you here to say you simply love a big bowl of barley? Or do you just want to drown a sorrow in a tasty carb shaped like pizza?

Please vote up the carbs you love to eat and vote down the stuff that isn&#39;t worth the calories.

The Tastiest Carbs To Eat When You're Not On A Diet

The Most Delicious Carbs People Love to Eat, Ranked

'Tis the season for costumes, candy, and spooky movies to scare your pants off.

This Is Halloween

Halloween

What is the worst Halloween candy ever? Oh, the choices are seemingly endless: Whether it&#39;s that creepy older lady down the street who insists that little boxes of raisins are just wonderful for the trick-or-treaters, or the health food nut next door who believes that trail mix makes a perfect treat, we&#39;ve all been stuck with terrible Halloween candy at one point or another. That&#39;s what this list is all about: The nastiest, grossest, stupidest, worst things to get when trick-or-treating. Be sure to vote, and add any ridiculously bad Halloween candy you&#39;ve gotten, too.

Here&#39;s the thing about the worst Halloween candy: Sometimes, people give out things that aren&#39;t candy at all. Look, if you run out of Snickers or Reese&#39;s peanut butter cups (no doubt among the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/best-halloween-candy/chef-jen" target="_blank">best Halloween candy</a> choices ever) just turn the porch light *off*. Don&#39;t go scrounging around the house for other things to dump on unsuspecting kids (and yes, that means no packets of sugar-free hot chocolate, Splenda, or Taco Bell hot sauce). Resist the urge to give out coupons, too, because kids don&#39;t CARE. They want their treats, and they want them now -- not next week, not next month.

Consider this list a guide for what *not* to give the adorable trick-or-treaters who show up at your door this Halloween...unless you actually want your yard TP&#39;ed. If so, then by all means, hand out some horrible generic made-in-China knockoff Halloween candy to the sweet, eager, costumed faces that hold out their sweet, adorable plastic Jack-o-lanterns and offer you the &quot;trick or treat&quot; holiday greeting. Your &quot;candy&quot; will wind up in the discard pile once everything&#39;s divvied up, and you&#39;ll become the pariah of the neighborhood.

Check out more lists like&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/the-worst-flavors-ever/ranker-facebook-reactions">Worst Flavors Ever</a> and <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/the-worst-foods-to-eat-on-a-date/samantha-dillinger">Worst Foods to Eat on a Date </a>

The Worst Things to Get in Your Trick-or-Treat Bag

Chef Jen

These are things that make America great. Get in the spirit and vote!

USA! USA!

You’ve probably heard the phrase “As American as apple pie.” Despite sounding so, well, American, its origins can be traced back to England. That’s because so much of American culture is appropriated from dozens of different cultures due to our cultural melting pot. So when it comes to American food, many American food staples have a history in other countries. Yet these tasty foods have become quintessential American dishes. Still, there are many foods (like corn dogs!) that originated in the USA.Some of the foods on this list came from other countries and eventually evolved into what we know today, such as the cheeseburger. Other foods on this list are designed to seem like they’re from other countries but were actually created in America, like fortune cookies. Many of the foods on this list are tied to American traditions, like s’mores with camping and hot dogs with cookouts. Often, traditional American foods are tied to a certain state or region, like&nbsp;the Philly cheesesteak or Chicago deep dish pizza.&nbsp;What are the best American foods? This list features the tastiest foods that are considered American and are deeply tied to US&nbsp;traditions. If your favorite American dish or US food specialty isn't on this list of American foods, make sure to add it to show your pride for food and country.

The Best American Foods

Best American Foods List | Top Dishes From The US

The many wonderful things that make life worth living. 

All Good Things

Scientists have found that smell is the sense that’s most tied into memory, and this makes one contemplate the possibility that a person’s favorite smell is tied into a favorite memory. Whether it’s your mother cooking breakfast on a Sunday morning, or the memory of a beach vacation with an ex-lover, these sense memories are waiting in your subconscious to be awakened with one sniff of a candle. Call us sentimental, but all of the scents and pleasant odors on this list of the best smells in the world are connected to important parts of life, and you likely feel the same way about more than one of the smells on this list. Even though you probably smell it every day, the aroma of ground coffee is still one of the best smelling scents imaginable. It’s possibly only topped by the smell of the air before it begins to rain. You'll surely have your own personal list of the best smells in the entire world, but how many of them cross over with those on this list? Are any of the smells something that most people find super gross, but you just love? Check out this list of the best smells and don’t forget to vote up the ones your nose loves the most. Are any of your favorite scents missing? Feel free to add them for others to vote on.

The Best Smells in the World

General

internet smellz

Best Smelling Things in the World

Jacob Shelton

Lists about the greatest years of your life—whether you remember them or not.

College Life

Snacks

If you've been to College, or are there now, there is a single unifying factor most students share. They are flat broke... all the time. Which makes eating challenging. Also: bad. Because cheap, quick-to-make, easy-to-eat food is NEVER good for you. Vote on what you ate (or eat) the most of in College. The cheapest, the grossest, the fastest, the easiest. And feel free to add anything that's missing.

Grilled cheese sandwich

The Crap You Eat in College - Ranked

Employment

Are you considering making a healthy lunch at your office today? Or <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/trying-to-save-money-memes/ashley-reign?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">trying to save money</a> by microwaving last night's dinner leftovers instead of buying a burger? Good for you. Homemade lunches can be way cheaper and more delicious than eating out. But don't forget: there are rules about what you should and shouldn't cook at work. Maybe you work at a cool startup with one of those trendy open office plans, or maybe your office kitchen is smack dab in the middle of a sea of cubicles. Whatever the case, no one wants to smell your stinky office lunch while they're trying to finish their spreadsheets. Bad work foods can release potent smells that waft over an entire office, so maybe leave the fish, steamed vegetables, and hard boiled eggs at home. On the other hand, there are some foods you should never cook at work because they smell too delicious. Popcorn, for example. Or bacon. Don't even think about popping those bad boys in the microwave unless you're prepared to make enough for all of your coworkers. Otherwise I'm going to give you the stink eye until quitting time, Jessica from Accounting. What foods do you think should be banned from the workplace? Vote up the <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/the-worst-foods-to-eat-on-a-date/samantha-dillinger?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">worst foods to eat</a> at work! If don't see your colleagues' poor lunch choices on the list, feel free to add more bad foods to make at work.

Broccoli

The Worst Foods to Cook at Work

Smelly Foods | Worst Foods to Eat at Work

Keshvar Alikhani

Preparing for a hike and looking for a trail mix recipe? Here are the best trail mix ingredients, ranked by people everywhere. When&nbsp;making your&nbsp;homemade trail mix, you can go sweet with dried fruit, candy, and chocolate chips, or healthy with a variety of nuts and seeds. This list of trail mix ingredients also&nbsp;includes seasoning, <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-best-breakfast-cereals-of-all-time?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">types of cereal</a>, and more.&nbsp;

Vote up the best things to put inside trail mix, and add more good trail mix ideas.&nbsp;

The Very Best Things To Put In Trail Mix

The 50+ Best Homemade Trail Mix Ingredients, Ranked

Sriracha has taken the world by storm - it's the little sauce from Thailand that could. What was a staple overseas is now a staple in American grocery stores. With only eight ingredients, this delectable red hot sauce sure does pack a punch! But what should you put it on to kick up your life a notch? If you are brave enough to test your palate then this list of the best things to put Sriracha on is for you!This list has everything from classic food staples to items you may have never thought needed Sriracha. Steak and chicken are no longer boring once you add a squeeze of Sriracha. How about also adding it to all your condiments for a true kick in the mouth? You might be pleasantly surprised by these ideas for what to put Sriracha on. Go ahead and give them all a try!If you are a true Sriracha connoisseur then vote up the best Sriracha foods or add the foods that always make you reach for the rooster bottle if they aren't already listed. Then pray to the pepper gods that there's never another Sriracha shortage.

Things You Should Put Sriracha On

Things to Do With Sriracha | Foods to Put Sriracha On

Corey Barger

Super Bowl LIV,  February 2, 2020. The Kansas City Chiefs vs the San Francisco 49ers. You bring the snacks, we'll provide the lists.

The Big Game

Super Bowl

List of <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/greatest-super-bowl-matchups-of-all-time/ranker-nfl?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">the best Super Bowl</a> food, as ranked by food lovers and Super Bowl enthusiasts. For many football followers, the Super Bowl is like a holiday akin to Thanksgiving and Christmas. It’s an event in which your closest family and friends gather, regardless of their personal interests and differences, to celebrate the biggest game of the year. Some watch for the game, some watch for the commercials, and many watch to be a part of the annual experience. However, even for a huge football lover, a Super Bowl party is doomed to fail without the right food. Whether you want food that fits in the Super Bowl theme or just want to ensure that everybody satisfies their hunger, the right food is pivotal to a successful party.The best food for a Super Bowl party is small enough to fit in your hand, doesn’t require a knife and fork, and won’t leave a mess when the party is over. The foods on this list are perfect to quell the appetites of every sort of guest. You need to make sure you have options for multiple dietary restrictions, including vegetarians, the lactose intolerant, and those on low-carb diets. What are the best Super Bowl foods? This list features the top ways to satisfy even the pickiest eater’s appetite. If your favorite Super Bowl party foods aren't on this list of top Super Bowl party foods, make sure to add them. After you are finished, head on over and vote on the <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/the-greatest-moments-in-super-bowl-history/ranker-sports" target="_blank">greatest moments in Super Bowl history</a>.

Popcorn

Popcorn is listed on