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Tip-
Use a stainless steel pot with no other materials. Heat your oven to 185. When popcorn is done popping move the pot without the lid into the oven to stay hot until movie time.

That butter liquid crap they pump onto popcorn has always made me feel sick since I was a kid so I don't bother with it at all.
Also why would anyone want to soggy their popcorn?

I actually got a job as the assistant manager at a movie theater a month before The Phantom Menace opened and I had to quit beforehand because I couldn't see in the pitch dark driving home.
Theater was closed for renovations and the manager pulled me aside after I cleaned the popcorn machines and said, "Holy crap what did you clean them with?" And I said, "A new toothbrush. They were filthy."
That was probably the last time they were clean.

This is what you need to make theater popcorn on the stove or in an oil popper.
This combination right here.
Market Pantry from Target is actually an excellent brand for kernels.

The coconut oil is Snappy brand.
It comes in smaller containers.

We eat a lot of popcorn.

I just told 16 to watch Mark Hamill's eyes when he finds Owen and Beru dead, and 16 said, "Holy fuck."
I said that people entirely underestimate Hamill as an actor.
16, still disturbed- "Holy fuck."
I said, "And that single expression is why Luke could go Dark Side."

#StarWars

My kid just roared laughing over the deliveries of Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper? And Huh? Oh.

And that's why we're here tonight.
Fun.

Me- "So. Empire tomorrow night?"
Kid- "Yes."

The three films are Star Wars, Empire, and Jedi.
All y'all young people can use the episodes.
But this was our shorthand.
These were our comfort food.

Tonight I said, "Do you know why this movie didn't suck? Marcia Lucas. She saved-"
"Raiders I know you told me."
"Yes well George needed Marcia and that's obvious."
"I know that you said."
Marcia Lucas, people.
And yes my kid knows it's Raiders, Temple, and Last Crusade.

I then pointed out the Marcia edits to Star Wars, and my kid was like Oh.
The film series that guys who hate women love was only good from the start because a woman was editing.
And making suggestions.

@Shelter Yeah, I don't get it either!

I like salt and sometimes pepper or maybe a little olive oil and Old Bay.

@lenaoflune

Old Bay is so good on popcorn.

@Shelter I friggin love popcorn

@Shelter Do you have the de-specialised version?

@Nimthiriel

I used to on VHS but they degraded.

@Shelter I got you, fam 😉 https://archive.org/search

@Shelter Got hollared at by Anthony Daniels once at a con. He was playing the fanfare as a sound setup in an empty room, and I heard it, stuck my head in and intoned "A LONG TIME AGO...." He yelled "OUT!!" and I ran lol

@kismatt

🤣🤣🤣

@Shelter i thought that star wars the first time was good, then they showed the updated version in a movie theater that i saw with my mother. Oh SHIT

@Shelter I've seen those films a total of over 400 times. I walked into Sears when I was 14 (1979 or '80) and they had a living room suite set up immediately as you walked in, with "Star Wars" playing on the TV. I sat down in a recliner to watch and a salesman brought me a bowl of popcorn! 😋 He said stay, because, by making the setup look lived in, I was helping to sell it. Seeing me, customers could more easily envision themselves there. 😃👍

@POOetryma That's so cool! Never happen today, sadly.

@Shelter parenting win!

@Shelter Mine automatically supplies the Star Wars Theme, regardless of what movie is actually starting on the screen.