My first movie experiences were the Drive In’s and the pepperoni pizza and brine cured pickles there. The closest I can re create the joy is to cook a Tombstone frozen pizza, add a Cola flavored Icee and find a pickle served out of a big deli jar.
The little theater in my town is a clone of the one I went to while growing up. I would swear that the stale and oily popcorn is also the same…maybe held in a cryochamber for 40 years.
@gailcalled Now I’m intrigued. Is it really cool story about why and how it came about that you put rubberbands in your mouth, or did you just hold them there for convenience while you were doing something?
@Trillian: Nah. I am using poetic license here. The new Tootsie Rolls taste rubbery and artificial compared to my memories. I could just as easily have said that they now taste like nibbling on a rubber glove (which I haven’t tried either).
@Adagio, it’s the (candy) gremlins/(candy) goblins! You absolutely have to watch out for them, all the time. You can’t let your guard down for even a second, trust me.
My family and I never ate at the movie theater. I didn’t realize how common it was until I was a teenager and would go with friends. I never really understood why people would want to eat and watch a movie.
Pom Poms, Milk Duds and those cellophane slabs of red or black licorice. As a young kid I went home on late. hot Saturday afternoons with many a tummy-ache.