Oscar night, 2015: I haven't seen the movies, am not much for couture, and like so many of us, I'm savvy enough to find the right highlights before heading to the proverbial water cooler. So why bother to watch? Simple. Popcorn. Oscars celebrate cinema and cinema, to me, means popcorn. I personally would rather have popcorn than an Academy Award.
Popcorn is the chameleon of snack foods. Traditional popcorn is my favorite flavor. But Oscar night requires extra butter. In fact you can add just about any flavor to popcorn. Butter, pepper, Thai spices (seriously I had some at a restaurant and it was legit!), caramel, you name it, you add it, you get more awesome. To my knowledge, Oscars aren't tasty.
Musical foods are rare, and popcorn is one of them. The rhythmic percussion of those edible fireworks is enough to make anyone smile, if not with their face, definitely with their tummy. Your snack is a drum line. Your Academy Award remains silent.
I am not a chef, but I'm pretty sure I can make popcorn 17 different ways. Pop those kernels on the stove, in the kettle, in the air popper - vintage style, or the modern way in the microwave. So, many, options. An Oscar comes in one outfit, shiny nude.
Popcorn is timeless. Your parents ate it. Your grand pappy did too. Christopher frigging Columbus ate popcorn. For real! Even the cool kids these days are still eating popcorn, and liking it. Future generations may never enjoy a Twinkie, but popcorn is going nowhere. Much like my love for it. Cue exit music.
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Popcorn is the chameleon of snack foods. Traditional popcorn is my favorite flavor. But Oscar night requires extra butter. In fact you can add just about any flavor to popcorn. Butter, pepper, Thai spices (seriously I had some at a restaurant and it was legit!), caramel, you name it, you add it, you get more awesome. To my knowledge, Oscars aren't tasty.
Musical foods are rare, and popcorn is one of them. The rhythmic percussion of those edible fireworks is enough to make anyone smile, if not with their face, definitely with their tummy. Your snack is a drum line. Your Academy Award remains silent.
Popcorn is cheap! I can pretty much always afford popcorn. Even at the corporate multiplex, popcorn remains the economical choice of cinema snackage. Paying $10 for several handfuls of popcorn is much more satisfying than paying that same ten bucks for 7 measly Raisinets. Priced by volume, popcorn is pennies per kernel kids; pennies from heaven.
I am not a chef, but I'm pretty sure I can make popcorn 17 different ways. Pop those kernels on the stove, in the kettle, in the air popper - vintage style, or the modern way in the microwave. So, many, options. An Oscar comes in one outfit, shiny nude.
Popcorn is timeless. Your parents ate it. Your grand pappy did too. Christopher frigging Columbus ate popcorn. For real! Even the cool kids these days are still eating popcorn, and liking it. Future generations may never enjoy a Twinkie, but popcorn is going nowhere. Much like my love for it. Cue exit music.
I own no rights to the Academy Awards, the franchise, it's merchandise, subsidiaries, synonyms or anyone or thing that has to do with it/them. The text written here is my own original thought, work, and opinion, shared with love. Photos in this post belong to their original owners (not me) and are captioned with appropriate credit and used with permission. No copyright infringement intended. I only offer my humble rambling opinion. Thank you.
This is a witty , whimsical and creative perspective on the Oscars and the fundamental important facts about popcorn from the Popcorn Master herself!!! This was a fun and comical read!! Thanks for sharing
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading and praising! <3
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