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Post by Star Slayer on Aug 11, 2017 21:50:19 GMT 1
Recently, something interesting about popcorn was brought to my attention. Now I need your opinions! This is for science!
Note that I am not asking which type of popcorn you personally like the best, but rather which one you consider to be the most common type, the flagship version, the face of popcorn, or in other words: the "standard" variety.
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Post by Zejety on Aug 11, 2017 22:21:01 GMT 1
Sweet is standard. Salted is what I prefer by far.
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Post by thehug0naut on Aug 11, 2017 23:04:59 GMT 1
Definitely sweet nowadays, in the context of cinema. Though I remember it used to be salty.
I prefer making them alternate scoop by scoop until I have a glorious mix of flavour
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Post by mysticjuicer on Aug 12, 2017 23:40:19 GMT 1
wtf? salty is always standard! what is this world coming to!
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Post by thehug0naut on Aug 13, 2017 0:57:59 GMT 1
#CanadaPopcorn
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Post by Bomber678 on Aug 13, 2017 1:17:22 GMT 1
Butter?
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Post by flagrantangles on Aug 13, 2017 19:10:16 GMT 1
I eat my popcorn straight off the cob.
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Post by scymrian on Aug 14, 2017 13:53:51 GMT 1
...some of you have sweet popcorn in your cinemas?
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Post by Plum on Aug 15, 2017 13:16:52 GMT 1
I always go for a mixed box, half salted, half sweet I prefer salted but I find a whole tub of it to be a bit much (Oh, but I would consider salted to be standard)
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Post by thehug0naut on Aug 15, 2017 14:13:38 GMT 1
I want to add the caveat that I'd consider butter popcorn to be the standard for homemade popcorn, but in the cinema (at least in the central belt of Scotland) sweet seems to be the defacto standard in terms of how much they stock and what they assume you want. I'll experiment next time I go see a movie
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Post by Bomber678 on Aug 15, 2017 15:03:46 GMT 1
All our popcorn here is buttered, pretty much. The only salty/sweet popcorn I've had has been home made. (Including chocolate drizzled popcorn. Definitely worth trying!)
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Post by Plum on Aug 15, 2017 15:03:59 GMT 1
How did I not know that hug0naut was Scottish Although it makes sense - they are notorious for their hugging
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Post by Star Slayer on Aug 15, 2017 17:41:44 GMT 1
Thanks for the votes. Science appreciates it. I guess now is the time to tell the story behind the poll:
I live in Germany and when I was a kid, the popcorn sold at the cinema and at the funfair was almost exclusively sweet. I wasn't even really aware of salted popcorn until the mid- to late-90s. I accepted that salted popcorn existed, but always saw it as an outlier (just like buttered popcorn), with sweet popcorn being the clear standard. And when I saw popcorn being eaten in movies or TV-shows, I always assumed that it was the standard popcorn, aka the sweet one.
A few weeks ago, I saw a video about an American living in Germany and she told how shocked she was when she found out that the assumed standard for popcorn here was sweet. It blew her mind. And her telling that blew mine. I never even thought about the possibility of sweet popcorn not being the standard around the world. But it turns out that Germany is actually in the minority: In most countries, the standard popcorn appears to be salty. mind = blown
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Post by Star Slayer on Aug 15, 2017 17:48:43 GMT 1
All our popcorn here is buttered, pretty much. The only salty/sweet popcorn I've had has been home made. (Including chocolate drizzled popcorn. Definitely worth trying!) I was aware of buttered and chocolaty popcorn, so I gave the option for "other". However, I thought that those were pretty rare. At least at public vendors (cinemas, funfair etc). I agree with thehug0naut though: Homemade popcorn is usually buttered around here, too. I've seen chocolate drizzled popcorn in a movie or two. American movies, I think. If they eat popcorn with chocolate, then why isn't sweet popcorn the standard there, too? IT MAKES NO SENSE!
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Post by flagrantangles on Aug 15, 2017 23:55:29 GMT 1
Where I live, the popcorn you procure from a cinema is predominately both salted and buttered. If you go to a fair or something of that nature, you're much more likely to find sweet popcorn and its variations. Oftentimes, we refer to it as kettle corn.
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Post by Bomber678 on Aug 16, 2017 4:31:26 GMT 1
Oh yeah, he's right. Ours is buttered and salty. I still consider buttered to be the standard though, as most store bought kernel packs are buttered but not necessarily salty. You can buy pre-made sweet stuff, but not the standard.
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Post by Jude on Aug 18, 2017 23:32:52 GMT 1
I don't think I could go to a movie and even order sweet popcorn. They don't make any in theaters. You can buy the whole sweet-salty spectrum in stores, but I've grown up with the assumption that popcorn was invented to essentially just be a salt and butter delivery device.
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Post by thehug0naut on Aug 19, 2017 8:10:41 GMT 1
This thread has blown (or should that be popped) my mind! I can't imagine not having sweet popcorn in the cinema
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Post by Star Slayer on Aug 19, 2017 10:53:06 GMT 1
This thread has blown (or should that be popped) my mind! I can't imagine not having sweet popcorn in the cinema I KNOW, RIGHT?
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Post by lemmingrad on Aug 22, 2017 5:41:17 GMT 1
Bit of an eye opener. To get sweet for me, I'd have to go to a speciality chain mall food stand for that. Its otherwise plain (for the health snob), salted or buttered everywhere else.
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Post by Plum on Oct 9, 2019 16:30:31 GMT 1
I asked for mixed popcorn at the cinema last night (half sweet and half salted) and they asked if I wanted it mixed or layered. That was something new I tried layered (of course) and it was pretty cool - a handful of sweet, a handful of sweet/salted and a handful of salted, then repeat. I think that's my new favourite, though I've never seen anywhere else ask that question. Anyway, it made me think of this thread so of course I had to comment here Also, I miss Star Slayer - I hope wherever he is, he's having fun
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Post by scymrian on Oct 10, 2019 19:03:38 GMT 1
Plum are they usually just giving it to you mixed? I think I'd hate that. Layered seems fine though.
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Post by Luna on Oct 11, 2019 1:18:48 GMT 1
Where is this cinema where there is more than just buttered popcorn?
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Post by Plum on Oct 11, 2019 9:08:36 GMT 1
Plum are they usually just giving it to you mixed? I think I'd hate that. Layered seems fine though. Yeah, I like it though. But I also like mixing sweet and salty elsewhere - salted chocolate etc Luna, it's every cinema I've been to in the UK
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Post by Zejety on Oct 12, 2019 14:20:11 GMT 1
I asked for mixed popcorn at the cinema last night (half sweet and half salted) and they asked if I wanted it mixed or layered. That was something new I tried layered (of course) and it was pretty cool - a handful of sweet, a handful of sweet/salted and a handful of salted, then repeat. I think that's my new favourite, though I've never seen anywhere else ask that question. Anyway, it made me think of this thread so of course I had to comment here Also, I miss Star Slayer - I hope wherever he is, he's having fun Star Slayer is very active on the DRB discord.
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Post by Plum on Oct 12, 2019 21:18:37 GMT 1
Star Slayer is very active on the DRB discord. Say hello from me!
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