There are other varieties of popcorn, but let’s stick to the movie concessions-butterfly and mushroom are what you snack on while you’re watching the latest summer blockbuster.
Caramel corn being “more chewy and crunchy,” Macaluso explains, means “you don’t notice the fact that it’s not a tender kernel” underneath. Round and wingless, mushroom popcorn is ideally suited to caramel corn its spherical shape means it’s easier to coat evenly, and its tougher texture means it can stand up to that sweet, sweet caramel without breaking apart. Your average moviegoers are probably also familiar-even if they don’t know it-with the “mushroom” variety of popcorn. I hope it keeps getting better and better and better. There would be more hard centers.” The process is gradual, and it’s ongoing Macaluso notes that the popcorn evolution “is probably going to be never ending.
Hop in your time machine and pop back 30 years to treat yourself to some movie theater popcorn, and “the hull remnants would be higher. “The characteristics that have been developed over the years to improve eating quality wouldn’t have been nearly as good” in the past, says Macaluso.
Over the decades, that process has given moviegoers a better product, one that’s more tender with fewer of the fiddly little bits that get stuck in your teeth. and Canadian sales at Gold Medal Products, takes between five and seven years to develop. A typical hybrid strain of popcorn, explains Joe Macaluso, popcorn-industry veteran and vice president of U.S. Medium butterfly popcorn, on the other hand, is more tender-a quality that farmers and scientists have spent decades accentuating. In addition to being, you guessed it, larger, large butterfly popcorn is a lot more durable and less likely to break up during manufacturing and shipping. Buy a bag of pre-popped popcorn at a grocery store or gas station, and you’re probably looking at large butterfly popcorn. Go to a movie theater in the Unites States and you’re getting medium-sized butterfly popcorn. What people tend to think of as “movie theater popcorn” is actually butterfly popcorn, characterized by “wings” that emerge as the kernel is popped. Popcorn Isn’t Just Popcornįirst of all: Not all popcorn is the same. But look beyond the bag-or tub, or bucket-and you’ll find that the world of that little popcorn kernel is surprisingly complex. Theaters love it for its high profitability. Patrons love it for its taste and convenience. Popcorn: Since the Great Depression, it’s been the movie theater staple.
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