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Does popcorn seem worse to you the older you get?

posted 4 years ago by [deleted]
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Back in the day, I would happily scoff cinema popcorn with no problems, except that maybe it was rather salty, and it always seemed crisp to me.

But now, at age 48, popcorn in all its forms seems crunchy, too crunchy to me, especially with the hard bits inside: this applies to cinema popcorn, the pre-popped stuff in bags, microwave popcorn with all of the icky additions, and popping corn you pop yourself with oil in a saucepan! It's all too crunchy and not really worth it.

Is it just me, or my age? Or are other older people finding this out and going off the stuff? I can't seem to find any such articles about it online.

[–] Who (5146) 4 years ago

Cinema popcorn has too much salt and chemical butter flavorings which irritate my lips and make them numb and sore. I haven’t eaten that junk in years.

I love homemade air popped popcorn with a little salt.

[–] AndyKing1967 (39865) 4 years ago

Butterkist! Yum!

[–] zack14 (347) 4 years ago

why is cinema popcorn so expensive?

[–] nyctc7 (44116) 4 years ago

The studio gets the lion's share of the box office receipts (at least, during the first few weeks of the film's release). So movie theaters very much depend on concessions to make up the difference.

[–] zack14 (347) 4 years ago

but why does the movie studios gets the lion share of the box office receipts?

[–] nyctc7 (44116) 4 years ago

Probably because they paid millions to produce the thing. After a certain amount of time, perhaps several weeks, (I'm not sure exactly) the formula changes and the theater keeps a higher percentage.

[–] AnubisRaydeen (7897) 4 years ago

Kernel husks lodged in teeth and stuck in back of throat. These things outweighed the pleasant flavor for me. I almost never eat it. Though I kinda like the popcorn flavored Jelly Belly.

[–] sslssg (35199) 4 years ago

I worked at a movie theatre when I was in high school, and was in the concession for the first little while, and the popcorn smell would infiltrate everything. Especially on a busy night. Would come home and have popcorn in your shoes, feet would smell like popcorn, hair, etc... it was pretty bad. It took almost 20 years before I could eat again.

[–] chilone (18333) 4 years ago

You retched, excuse for sweet, tender corn. You miserable, exploded piece of pseudo-grain!!

There. I "scoffed" popcorn too.. 🤣

[–] DoctorThirteen (15321) 4 years ago

Never liked it.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Yes. When I was young I would get my popcorn buttered up so much that I would practically be sliding out of the theater chair. In my twenties and definitely in my thirties I liked it less and less. I stopped going to the movies in 2013, and if I went back I probably wouldn't order popcorn at all.