About a month ago, while I was standing in line at the local Walgreens to provide an ID to prove I am not a meth addict and get some Claratin D, Mrs. WeHaveCookies was left to wander the isles.
I figured it was just another bag of half-stale “cheese-like” snacky stuff. We drove a few blocks to the Post Office. I was inside for maybe 5 minutes. When I came back to the car, she carefully handed me the half empty bag, with the top nicely folded.
“You have to try this. It is unreal. You have NO FUCKING IDEA how hard it was to even save you any at all.”
The ride home that afternoon was a complete blur. The only thing in the world was the crinkly metalic plastic bag of salty-sweet-buttery-crunchy ambrosia that I held in my hands. The bag was empty in a matter of moments, and our undoing had begun.
We are now unable to leave Walgreens without 2 bags each, and (again, thanks to the meth-heads) we have to stop in for Claratin D about once a week.
Tucked around the corner from my favorite vegetarian restaurant is a gourmet popcorn shop. They have every flavor imaginable, up to and including blue raspberry-flavored popcorn. My favorite is one with this white-chocolate type stuff drizzled on it.
I have now, however, seen caramel/cheese. I can’t even imagine it. Does it taste anything like kettle corn?
Wow… you’re in The Bay Area… I was hoping you’d be down South somewhere or on the moon, so I wouldn’t have to go looking for this stuff at my local Walgreen’s. >sigh<
No such luck, the stuff’s available at Walgreen’s across the country. I’ve had a variety of this insane snack with cheese / carmel / butter popcorn mixed many times here in Indiana.
So um… yeah.
Every Christmas we buy my mom a 3# tin of popcorn, all nicely divided into plain, cheese, and caramel. After opening it she removes the carboard separators, recovers the tin, and then shakes the heck out it, therefore mixing it all up.
Normally, I am not a popcorn person. You will not find any popcorn in my house and passing it over at a sports’ bar is no problem. But the Xmas popcorn? Nom Nom Nom.
I feel your passion for flavored popcorn. One time during the move-out period of college, somebody had thrown out an untouched bin of flavored popcorn. It was on the top of the dumpster. I don’t regret it one bit.
I’ve had the segregated bin popcorn on occasion, and it has never made much of an impression on me. That’s basically what I was refering to with the “half-stale ‘cheese-like’” bit. Maybe I’ve had some bad batches, or maybe my taste buds just set the bar lower and lower through the years.