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One of the weird things I’ve found traveling internationally is that salt & butter popcorn is apparently an American thing. In Asia and South America popcorn is
by OkGoDoIt 6y ago
One of the weird things I’ve found traveling internationally is that salt & butter popcorn is apparently an American thing. In Asia and South America popcorn is almost always sweet. Salt & butter popcorn is one of those things you don’t realize how much you’ll miss it until you go to every market and movie theater in town and can’t find any popcorn that’s not sweet :-/
- Clampower 6y agoThis is just not true. Salty popcorn is very normal in both Europe and Latin America. The artificial butter component is something that is more American and rarer outside of the US.
- jdhzzz 6y agoReal imitation artificial butter flavor... (from some Looney Tunes cartoon)
- OkGoDoIt 6y agoI can’t speak to Europe, and admittedly my Latin America experience is somewhat limited to Argentina, Chile, and Brazil, and my Asia experience is mostly China, Hong Kong, Korea, and Vietnam. I’m sure there are places where it’s possible to get salty popcorn, but I have found it incredibly frustratingly difficult to find popcorn that is not sweet on my travels. Often if I do find salty popcorn it will be sweet and salty. I certainly don’t like the popcorn I do find, and I get the impression people from those areas wouldn’t like the kind of popcorn that I enjoy. Which I think was the whole point of this subthread, that culinary preferences are often very regional and things we take for granted in one area might be very different elsewhere in ways we don’t expect. I certainly never anticipated what a quest I would have to mount to find something that seemed so pedestrian to me growing up: salt and butter popcorn
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