Eli5: Why does store bought “movie theater popcorn” not actually taste like movie theater popcorn?
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Firstly: while the ingredients may be roughly the same, the proportions are not.
Secondly: maybe it does taste like the popcorn of a certain movie theater. You would have to compare the popcorns of all cinemas to know for sure. And not just in your country.
Fresh popcorn (almost anything, really) tastes different to their packaged variants.
Real movie theatre popcorn uses waaaay more flavour. About a cup of kernals and a 1/4 cup of flavour (mostly salt) goes into a big metal pot that gets squirted with oil when the lid closes.
The machine is a beast,. You have to feed it.
Store bought stuff just doesn’t use enough flavour.
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