Price check, reality check

[Ardbeg... innit]

We were at our nearby GFS store (GFS is a midwest based wholesale foods franchise, which invites the 'public' to shop there, in other words, you dont need to be a restaurant) over the weekend.

On an aisle end cap, there were big bags of popcorn, and I mean 50lb bags of popcorn, and it wasnt generic popcorn either, it was Act II popcorn. I was shocked at the price... $19.95.

Now I started digging around here, online, and sure enough, you can get the same 50lb bag for $25. So the price is saw at GFS, while a great price, was not nearly as astounding as I thought.

Are we all suckers for paying what we do for single serving microwave bags, or even one pound jars of the stuff.

It makes the movie theater popcorn even more outlandish. The first cup of popcorn out of the bag pays for the purchase, the second cup pays for the electricity and the oil to cook the stuff, the third cup pays for the artificial butter, leaving 49 lbs for profit. Are we suckers or what?

[♥ COVID-19♥]

Well, I guess it depends on your tastes. Can you tell a difference between freshly popped popcorn and microwave? I think I can. There are still a few theaters around that make freshly popped (as opposed to the stale stuff that comes in a huge clear plastic bag) and it tastes better to me, so I don't mind paying a little extra for that.

[Ardbeg... innit]

I never use the microwave stuff at home, fresh (air popped) only. I have not been in a theater that used precooked stuff (there is nothing better than the smell of fresh popcorn in the theater lobby.

Those 50lb bags I mentioned above were not microwave popcorn BTW, they were big sacks of kernals waiting to be cooked. No idea what volume 50lbs of cooked popcorn would involve.

[♥ COVID-19♥]

Ah, OK, I assumed it was the microwave stuff.