Sorry if you like Skittles, but you’re wrong. Admittedly, the texture can be kind of fun if you have an oral fixation, but beyond that, Twizzlers are clearly the least desirable snack at the movie theater concession counter.

This chewy, borderline inedible candy doesn’t have any discernable flavor apart from the same artificial additive they use to make cough drops. Honestly, it shouldn’t even have to be said that Twizzlers fall in last place. That’s why I wrongly feel I have the authority to rank some of the most popular movie theater snacks from worst to best: I haven’t returned to my theater-going ways, mostly because I learned how to make insanely buttery popcorn from scratch and decided to piss all my money away on midnight snack deliveries while sitting in front of my TV (a pandemic purchase itself). I would leave the theater satiated but with a sugar-induced headache, frequently unimpressed with the movie but somehow refreshed, renewed, like I had, for an hour and thirty-seven minutes, entered an alternate storyline.

The point wasn’t really to watch the movie itself but instead to sit in front of a massive screen while indulging in the nostalgic snacks from my childhood. I actually hadn’t gone to the movies that much prior to the pandemic, but maybe once every two months, I would take myself on a date to see a new movie. But as the months drew on, I found myself missing parts of life that I hadn’t necessarily expected to miss: grocery shopping multiple times a week, drinking coffee with my weird next-door neighbor, doing my laundry in my building’s laundry room without a protective face covering.īut one of the most unexpected aspects of pre-pandemic life I missed was going to the movies. I love being at home, so when March 2020 hit and I was told it was actually virtuous to not leave my apartment for weeks, I wasn’t really too bummed out.

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