London photo of the day: a disturbing quantity of popcorn

Fri, Oct 25, 2013

This is what you witness when you loiter outside West End cinemas at ungodly early hours. You’ll never eat movie popcorn again.*

*Until the next time you go to the movies.

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Lowell Rapaport

Sat, Oct 26, 2013 12:59am

surprising. i thought they actually popped the popcorn in the theater, albeit well in advance of the actual movie time. popping popcorn is not hard to do, and it has got to make more sense to ship around five of six sacks of unpopped popcorn than it is to ship a truckload of popped popcorn.

bronxbee

reply to Lowell Rapaport

Sat, Oct 26, 2013 4:01am

i worked in movie theatres in NYC… i never liked popcorn to start with, but after seeing the bags (ours were paper) and the “golden topping” and then cleaning out the popcorn “heaters” … gag me.

MaryAnn Johanson

reply to bronxbee

Sat, Oct 26, 2013 10:55am

Interestingly, I have yet to be in a British cinema that offers butter — or “butter” — for the popcorn. You can get presalted or presweetened popcorn, but no butter and no extra salt.

MaryAnn Johanson

reply to Lowell Rapaport

Sat, Oct 26, 2013 10:54am

But then you have to have the machines to do the popping.

The amount of stuff we ship pointlessly around is astonishing.

beckymonster

Sat, Oct 26, 2013 8:52am

One of my regular cinemas makes (some of) it’s own. The room has it’s own window, which looks out onto the main area of the cinema foyer.

Yes, I have stood there while it’s popping and watched;) It’s fun, although I don’t eat the stuff.

MarkyD

Sun, Oct 27, 2013 12:51am

I haven’t eaten movie theater popcorn in YEARS. I prefer not not to eat or drink anything at all while watching a movie, and really can’t stand others doing it. Sounds and smells distract from the experience.