Yeah, have I been busy. Work has been both wild and productive this week, and with my general rule of limiting my time on the computer at home, I haven’t had as much free time to write each day. So, it has been a little while. Anyway, today’s Bloganauary prompt: “What snack would you eat right now?”
I can walk you through a maze of reasoning when asked about my favorite foods. What a terrible question, making me choose among all the great things I’ve had the pleasure of eating over the years. It honestly feels cruel.
With snacks, the answer was immediate when I saw the question. That answer is buttered popcorn.
(I have to get a thing straight right away, though—that does not mean microwave popcorn. Heck no. That stuff is barely edible and might pass in a serious emergency, but not on a standard Thursday.)

But the real stuff is at the movies. We had a time period several years back where we were at the movies twice or more each week. It was a Golden Age for snacks in my life. I had access to perfect, buttery popcorn (and also a fun movie) on the regular and my stomach was legitimately reflecting that. I had to limit myself because that’s a thing that happens to me. I ate a lot of popcorn at that time and I never got sick of it.
I might also have to explain some differences in my word usage. I have written about something that could be considered snack food and called it “the most perfect”. However, the peanut butter and jelly sandwich can be a full meal (without twisty logic), so it does not count as a snack.
Popcorn evokes memories of movies for me. I’ve had it at a showing since I was as young as I can remember, and through my life I got popcorn just about every time I went to a movie. Continuing on into middle age, it’s still the same thing. When I saw the question, it just popped in there, like a giant marshmallow man. And now I realize it has been too long since I had myself a really perfect batch.