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10mo ago

Interesting split

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Sweet?!
- You need to try kettle corn. Sweet and salty heaven.
- I've seen them in shop and tested out. It feels wrong
  
  It's the best. Caramelized or just with sugar.

Huh. TIL.
To me popcorn goes in the same category as potato chips, salty. Always salty. But apparently it lands with candy for a part of the world? I had no idea.
Do you sweet popcorn people get some other salty snack? Or are all your movie snacks sugary?
To me the ultimate combo is salty popcorn (maybe even buttery) and a sweet drink.
- Even in the US sweet popcorn is a thing. We have kettle corn, or those tins with caramel popcorn. Salty/buttery is definitely the most popular though.
  
  Yeah, but usually that’s not at the movies.
  
  I'm sure I can find some if I look here too.
  I'm curious about what people eat together with them, because to me salty+savory snacks go with sweet+sour soda.
  Do people in these countries go sweet+sweet, or is there more to this?
- In Germany, all cinemas I visited had a salty option, the most common being nachos with some dip. But I don't remember ever seeing salty popcorn offered here, even outside cinemas it is rare.
  
  Rare indeed. The first time I came across salty popcorn as a kid, I felt the kind of betrayal that leads to a livelong grudge.
  I still think salty popcorn is disappointing and weird.

I didn't even know salty popcorn existed
- That's so interesting. I love caramelized popcorn, but when I think of default popcorn, it's always salty!
- Don't try it, it feels wrong
  
  It's kind of funny that there is another comment that says that sweet popcorn is wrong. It seems it mostly depends on what you are used to.

I was thinking of moving to Germany but I just can't now. Sweet popcorn? In a theater? Half the reason I even go to theaters is so I can eat enough buttery topping with some popcorn mixed in to feel sick. The absolute madness of putting sugar on popcorn, I'd sooner eat a bowl of unpopped kernels
But for real all you salty/savory popcorn lovers out there: If you haven't tried it yet put some powdered brewers yeast on your popcorn. That stuff is magical. Goes weirdly well on pizza too
- Most cinemas also offer salty popcorn. It's nice that they accommodate weirdos like you
- I just learned that Western Europe are my enemies. If I find out they support pineapple on pizza, we're going to war.
  /s obviously, for those of you who are dumb fucks
- Indirectly confirm through putting marmite in tomato sauce that a yeasty flavour on pizza is exceptionally good

If this seems strange don't even ask what they're doing in Texas....
- What are they doing in Texas? Just handfuls of bullets served in a cowboy hat?

I was at the cinema in Germany and asked if the popcorn was sweet or not, and of course it was, just wanted to make sure. So I asked for some candy instead. The clerk was soooo confused. "But... These are sweet too...?". Yeah, but I expect candy to be sweet.

- Gray countries either eat popped chickpeas (poppeas) or popped potatoes (poppatoes)...
- Doesn't have cinemas

Popcorn at the cinema is always salty (or more accurately, fake buttery). Popcorn anywhere else is...eh, salty, sweet, anything.
Personally I don't like sweet (kettle or caramel) but that's just personal. My grandmother adored both kettle and caramel.
I suppose I didn't mind chocolate covered Halloween style popcorn though!

I always try to get salty popcorn whenever possible. Never did I imagine it was standard in so many countries!

Lithuania is either just go to any cinema and store and you will get that conclusion

Ooh, I've only come across sweet popcorn in China and thought it's their specialty. Then again I've never been to movies in either Germany of France.

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