Popcorn Topping

So, we took an afternoon to play and saw the latest Bourne movie: The Bourne Ultimatum. Plenty of chase scenes, fights, torture, identity confusion....all the usual stuff. Sorry, but I'm giving the Bourne producers an ultimatum: show me something different or I'm giving up on the series. Surely they can tinker with Robert Ludlum's original material enough so that there is something better than the same old predictable crap--yeah, I said it fellas, crap. Strong words from the food fiend.

But you know, it's not so much the movie I take issue with as the popcorn. I'm probably dating myself, but back in the day we used to order hot, BUTTERED popcorn and generally got a deliciously greasy treat, drowned in either butter or margarine, to be enjoyed heavily salted and washed down with a sugary dose of Pepsi or Coke. Now they have popcorn TOPPING, with no pretense at being anything remotely connected to butter. The base for this, from what I've been reading, is generally coconut oil, cheaply produced and rich in artery clogging fats. Not that it tastes like coconut oil, or butter, or margarine, or anything else found in nature. The topping we experienced yesterday tasted highly industrial and should probably have been labeled "industrial by-product". For once in my life, I couldn't finish a medium sized bag of popcorn--a sad moment in this dedicated eater's junk food history. The stuff coating it was just too slippery and vile to keep eating. We both gave up, Pat (who can generally eat anything) and myself (who can pig out righteously, but in a more ladylike fashion), and sipped sadly at our jumbo sized diet Coke that tasted primarily of old soda water and icecubes. *sigh*

Maybe I'll just pop up some of my own at home next time, melt some real butter over it and sneak it into the theater. That's not a felony yet, is it?