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International · 35 mins ago
A brief history of popcorn – and its cinema snack sidekicks
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An outing to the cinema isn’t just about seeing a movie, it is a full sensory experience, with a big screen and big snacks. An epic film demands the panoramic widescreen, thunderous surround sound, embarrassingly large boxes of lollies and giant buckets of popcorn that never taste the same at home.
Throughout the history of cinema, however, popcorn has been both scorned as a messy lowbrow distraction and hailed as a profit-making saviour for a floundering film
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