Why did it become such a staple cinema food?

why did it become such a staple cinema food?

why not something quiet like cotton candy

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how the fuck should i know?

Is it true that Americans eat salty pop corn?

>easy to make
>easy to package
>easy to eat
>easy to make taste really good
>can still be eaten without any additional flavouring if you want, and is pretty healthy when eaten this way
>exempt from rationing during WW2
>was exceptionally cheap to sell while still being profitable to sell at low prices

You can sell, 10p worth of this shit for £5, that's how.

Depends. You can get kettle corn if you want.

So, when you just say "popcorn" it's salty by default? Here if you don't say you wanted it salty, it comes sweet by default

i know its classic faire food, but how it ended up dominating cinemas, i have no idea

Yeah, salty would be the default. I don't think theaters sell kettle corn though. I know you can buy it.

It is buttery, salty, and oily. That's how Americans like it.

They have butter flavoured popcorn and they have a pump/dispenser thing with liquid butter to pour over the top.

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I once heard they used a butter flavored salt as well.

Most theaters don't use actual butter. It's a fake butter-flavored topping.

Which is probably even worse for you than butter.

Its an oil that resembles earwax at room temperature.

It's cheap af, which means high margins. Pretty much all theaters make their money from concessions not movies. To top it off, people will happily shell out $7 for 85¢ worth of popcorn; god bless America.

There's factory workers that have died from respiratory problems caused by fumes of artificial butter flavor compounds. So yes.

Popcorn gives the biggest return investment possible, it's extremely cheap.
You spend pennies on the bag of kernels and sell a single serving for tens of dollars.
Also by making it salty you need a drink with it, so automatically you sell both the popcorn and the drinks, rather large drinks to accompany the popcorn ofcourse.

With cotton candy you don't need a sugary drink with it and the theaters would turn into sticky sugary mess in a week. Also needs far more time to serve than just picking bags of already made popcorn.

They discontinued the use of such compounds after they got sued by a popcorn eater who got cancer I heard. No idea how safe what they use now is.

I believe that was microwavable popcorn though.

A single bag of unpopped popcorn is like 30 bucks more or less
Do you know how many overpriced buckets a whole bag is? Concessions are so expensive because that's where theatres get the vast majority of their profit (unless it's proprietary like RPX, the theatre only gets like 1 or 2 dollars per ticket sold)

But what is a movie without a popcorn and coke.

based NPC sheep

I'm just not Jewish. Also I don't actually go and see films since nothing worth watching is ever playing. Though when I do go once every few years I want the full experience. A few pennies is no reason to half ass it.

>I want the full experience
And by full experience you mean having a popcorn and a coke? Yup, brainless NPC sheep confirmed.

Zoomers with their communism who have never experienced the glories of the past wouldn't understand. You live in a shell of a world. All you have are your numemes.

Soft drinks are more profitable than popcorn. Restaurants make most of their money off of them. Your drink costs them like 2c to your $2+ or $5-7+ at a theater

And salty popcorn makes you buy soft drinks. It's a complete deal for theaters

I have heard they get the syrup for free because it is a great advertisement. Having coke in every McD's sells a lot of cans and bottles.

This is disgusting.

Cotton candy is very sticky

>it's good because I did it as a kid!
dead God what absolute blind nostalgia cope

And the generation before you absolutely hated your pop culture popcorn shoving kind and talked about the glories of past where people used to go to the cinema as a high class event on par with Opera or a play, not a coke slurping popcorn crunching gimmick where you consume the latest brainless product of Hollywood

This is why i stopped going to theaters. The sound of hundreds of fatties all munching this disgusting shit with their mouths open drives me crazy

Do you fags actually eat and drink in a theatre?
I hope you dont

Sometimes when I'm a bit thirsty I'll take a nice crisp sparkling water with me.

I do but the cinema is usually loud enough you can't hear anything when the sound is on.
I also make sure to only eat or drink during the high volume moments so I don't annoy anyone else (Or more importantly, me.) when eating.