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MONDAY MOVIE MEME
This week Molly and Andy at the Bumbles Blog are asking all about movie snacks, and listing their favourites, thus amazing me with the amount of movie snacks apparently available in the United States.
When I was young, here in the UK (or Merrie Olde England as it was known back then), there were a limited number of snacks available - Kia Ora (a vivid orange drink, which I quite liked), small tubs of ice cream, and orange lollies (of a make that you'd never encounter outside the cinema). Annoyingly, you didn't buy the snacks on the way in then, but instead they used to stop movies in the middle to sell them.
Over time of course, new snacks made their entrance with their groovy jingles - popcorn (with its "Butterkist, Butterkist, Ra Ra Ra" jingle), Westlers' hot dogs (with its memorable "Moo"), and King Cone (with its clever "King Cone").
And so, progress continued, and now the number of snacks available is almost out of single figures. There are the old favourites like ice cream, popcorn (salted or toffee-covered; sadly we don't get to spread butter on our popcorn in this country) and hot dogs, plus things like nachos with salsa or molten cheese, and pick 'n' mix. My own current favourite is an ice cream milkshake, which you can get at some cinemas.
5 comments:
Great blog! My favourite snack is the colourful slushies you can get, only because they don't serve gumdrops in Oz :]
Great blog! My favourite snack is the colourful slushies you can get, only because they don't serve gumdrops in Oz :]
You can get ice cream milkshakes in cinemas?? I'm going to look out for that.
I'm with Spyke - milkshakes sound like a delicious movie treat! Nachos are good too - but more challenging to eat in the dark - don't want to get that goopy cheese all over your lap.
Thanks for the comments.
black vanilla rose - Have to admit that I've never tried a slushy, partly because I'm never sure what flavour they'd be, partly because their colour scares me (they look like something out of a sci-fi movie that might suddenly turn sentient).
Spyke - If there's a decent Ben & Jerry's at your cinema then they usually have it on their list of things.
The Bumbles - Yeah, the milkshakes are good. As for the nachos, I tend to get the goopy cheese all over my fingers rather than over my lap.
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