And probably Jiffy Lube (I am 10x more likely to use businesses that have free popcorn in their waiting area, so thanks for the snacks and the fluid changes, Jiffy Lube!). It’s ultra-fine salt, artificial flavors, and a bunch of artificial colors, and what it does to popcorn is nothing short of a miracle. Intrigued, I discretely snapped a picture and made a mental note to look up this mysterious product at home.įriends, trust me when I say that Flavacol is nothing short of fluorescent orange MAGICAL POWDER. Inside were dozens of orange milk box-style cartons emblazoned with the name FLAVACOL. One day, though, I was waiting for a bag of popcorn at Target in Albuquerque (I also love Target popcorn, and it’s a grave disappointment that the Target in Santa Fe doesn’t have a cafe-SOB), and the cabinet under their popper was open. If my time comes as I’m devouring jumbo tub with my feet on a sticky floor while I’m watching a Jim Jarmusch movie, then that’s just what fate intended for me.

I think I was subconsciously afraid that I’d find out there’s something really, really bad in movie theater popcorn, or that there was some kind of super-bacteria living in the theater popcorn troughs waiting to kill me, and frankly, I would just rather not know. AND THAT’S FINE! It’s all yummy!īut…what if I could make movie theater popcorn at home? For a long time, I didn’t want to find out how to do it.

You know, kernels popped in coconut oil with something sprinkled on top. It’s definitely my favorite snack! I make it at home at least a few times a week, and until recently, I’ve almost always gone with a variation on my maple pepper popcorn recipe.

Yes, IT IS DELICIOUS.Īs long as it’s not air-popped, I love popcorn so much that I would say it’s my favorite food (right after bagels, of course).

Yes, it’s full of crap and loaded with fat and calories. And yeah, I do love the movies themselves, but you want to know a secret? The driving force that compels me to go to see something in the theater (as opposed to at home) is the prospect of eating movie theater POPCORN. I’ve even started keep track of them all with the Letterboxd app.

Movie theater popcorn oil