- Fake banana.
- It's really not good!
That's really not good!
- I'm really sorry.
- And then it lingers. - Yeah.
- (bleep) you.
- Yeah, that's been the general reaction around here.
(rock music)
Welcome to "Snack Talk," the show that answers every
snack-related question you could possibly imagine.
You know, the movie theater Experience has really changed
in recent years.
It used to be that you had a stiff chair, and you could
barely get Twizzlers, but now you've got giant,
relaxing chairs, and you can practically get
an entire meal right there in your seat.
But one thing has not changed.
You guessed it, popcorn.
But have you ever stopped to wonder why exactly is
buttered Styrofoam the No. 1 cinematic sidekick?
It's been a mystery until now.
Our guest today is gonna help us get to the bottom of this.
You may know him from movies like "Wet Hot American Summer"
or legendary comedy groups "The State" and Stella.
He's also got his own podcast about snacks,
"Mike and Tom Eat Snacks." Please welcome
Michael Ian Black.
(bleeps)
Don't worry about it, just--
(indistinct chattering)
No, no, no.
You can't break popcorn.
Please welcome, here.
- I have to welcome myself?
- Please welcome.
All right, so Michael, you are here to help us
get to the bottom of movie theater snacks.
So this episode is all about movies and of course
therefore popcorn, because it's the No. 1
movie theater snack.
What is your relationship with popcorn like?
- When eating popcorn at a movie,
I feel like the instinct, my instinct is to make it as
buttery as possible.
But now I know that doing that is essentially
painting my arteries with plaque, and so I'm reluctant
to add additional butter or butter substitute
to the popcorn.
My hope is always that it just kinda comes like that,
that they've already pre-buttered the popcorn
so that I can absolve myself of responsibility
and I can say to myself, "Well, I didn't know.
And I've already paid $45 for this tub of popcorn,
what am I to do?"
I almost never, if I'm by myself at the movies,
I never buy popcorn.
If I'm with my stupid children at the movies,
they always want popcorn and so, we generally share
a medium-sized popcorn.
- Huh, so we're here to get to the bottom of all things
movie theater snack related, and to help us with this,
I've come up with a little segment that I like to call
the Snackademy Awards.
- Are you looking for a reaction from me?
Like, oh that's (bleep) great.
(tape rewinding)
- The Snackademy Awards.
- Oh that's (bleep) great.
- Fantastic.
So we know that popcorn and maybe nachos or even hot dogs,
they kinda have that top- shelf billing, you know,
in movie theaters.
And so I feel like every great snack needs
a supporting snack.
So the nominees for Best Supporting Snack are...
Reese's Pieces,
Sno-Caps, Milk Duds, Raisinettes, and Sour Patch.
And these are in support of what, 'cause to me,
I would get an either- or; I wouldn't get nachos
and these, I don't think.
- Well I think that a lot of people like to combine these
with popcorn. - Oh with popcorn.
- Yes and of one of these very specifically I think is best
paired with popcorn.
And unlike the actual Oscars,
we have actual people of color.
Look: that guy's green, that guy's blue.
(chuckling)
- Well, all right, so if you were just talking about pairing
with popcorn, you're never gonna pair Sour Patch Kids
with popcorn.
- That was my choice. - No you don't do that.
It's a chocolate--
It's a chocolate-based combination.
- Yeah but let me defend the Sour Patch Kids.
This is the only time in the movie theater
where you will encounter acidity.
- What you need is sweet with salty.
- Mm, I see.
- My palate when I'm at the movie theater isn't going,
"How acidic can I make this experience?"
That's never a thought that's going through my mind.
- Fair. - Sweet and salty, absolutely.
- OK. - Milk Duds do not work.
- OK, why so?
- Because the popcorn kernel is easily chewable.
The Milk Dud is an arduous trek that you really have to
undergo with full concentration.
You can't just casually eat a Milk Dud.
So you can't combine it with the popcorn because by the time
the Milk Dud is gone, the popcorn will have been
gone for days.
Also, you can't eat a box of these.
- Chocolate, caramel all in one.
You eat them in the movie theater, and you eat the whole box
even though you said you're only gonna eat one or two
or three and that you're gonna share: you're not,
you're gonna eat the whole thing.
Bam.
- So what you're left with, with popcorn are Raisinettes,
Sno-Caps, and Reese's Pieces.
I would suggest any three of these could work.
It really then becomes a question of palate.
- Sno-Caps, really?
- It's the simplest of the combinations.
I agree with you -- it's probably the worst of the three.
So let's eliminate that. - Great.
- Now, you've got a problem.
You've got Raisinettes and Reese's Pieces.
- Thank you for pronouncing it the right way.
- As opposed to what?
- An 8-year-old who says Reese's Pee-sees.
- I'm gonna give the edge here to Reese's Pee-sees,
because, the melt factor.
And when you're combining hot with meltable,
I guess I want to take advantage of the meltability
of the Reese's Pieces, and also, I don't wanna have
even a hint of health with the Raisinettes.
- Fair.
- So I think Reese's Pieces is the winner
of this particular category.
- Fantastic, well there you have it, the winner for
Best Supporting Snack is Reese's Pieces.
The nominees for Best Foreign Snack.
So here we have (chuckles).
Bananko. - Yeah, Bananko.
- Which I believe is a Croatian snack.
Here we have the Swedish Fish, which were invented in Sweden
and then copied here in America.
Then we have sunflower seeds, which I believe are very
popular in Spain -- I don't know what the spit situation
is like there.
Maybe they just consume them all.
Then gummy bears, the original, these are actually called
Gold Bears made by Haribo Company of Germany.
I'll be honest, I'm very biased there,
truly one of my favorite gummy snack.
- You're biased towards.
- Yes, yes, yes.
They just make the best gummies, I love them.
Even though this is Japanese packaging, dried squid
is a very popular movie snack in South Korea.
- Well this is gonna be a difficult category for me,
as somebody who is not an international moviegoer.
- I see.
- And I think a lot of it is gonna depend on context.
So my instinct is to go all the way.
My instinct is to be like, well, if the category is foreign,
then I wanna get the most exotic consumable
to enhance my foreign moviegoing experience.
So my instinct is to go with the squid.
- Have you ever had it?
- No. - It's truly delicious.
- It's sitting right there.
- Would you like to try it?
- Not really, but I will.
- All right, let's fire it up.
I don't even know that I can open it.
It's really quite good.
I eat this very frequently.
- How does it pair with Reese's Pee-sees?
- Well this has a desiccant, which you should not eat.
- But yeah just try it with--
- How will I know what the desiccant is versus
the part that I'm supposed to eat.
- This one, I don't know, it actually doesn't say.
But I would take just a thread, it's kind of like
string cheese but meat of the sea.
- Oh I see.
- It's fun.
You can manipulate it.
And it has a little bit of a fishy funk to it,
but you can see how this would pair really well
with like beer.
I think of this as a fantastic beer snack.
- Yeah, this is quite good, it's, yeah, it's like a jerky.
It's like a squid jerky.
- Yes, exactly.
Well I'm inclined to agree with you.
I eat this all the time, my wife and I, we really dig
this kind of palate of stuff, and we eat this
all the time while watching movies.
- Great, I think that's a great choice, now,
just to sort of play this out a little bit.
(sighs)
Swedish Fish and gummy bears, both delicious.
But both so closely associated to America to me
at this point that I don't see how they can be contenders.
And then, Bananko, have you tried this?
- I have.
It's not my jam.
- It's chocolate and banana?
- Allegedly.
- I mean you can tell by looking at it--
- That came from Croatia.
- That's not gonna be a delicious experience.
It's got kind of a marshmallowy taffy texture to it
and I suspect it has a kind of chemical-y.
- There's a weird crunch to it as well, yeah.
Anywhere, anywhere.
Spit it wherever you like.
It perfumes your mouth immediately with that vile,
fake banana.
- It's really not good!
That's really not good.
- I'm really sorry.
- And then it lingers. - Yeah.
- (bleep) you!
- Yeah, that's been the general reaction around here.
All right so that's out of the question.
- And as far as sunflower seeds go,
this feels like a very viable snack to me.
At a movie theater.
If you're not gonna have popcorn, it's got,
essentially it's the same thing, it's just a salty,
crunchy little kernely thing that you can
mindlessly munch on.
- So who's the winner?
- You know I started out instinctively going with the
dried squid, and I think I'm ending with the dried squid.
- Fantastic, I'm right there with you.
I'm gonna have some just to celebrate.
I wasn't sure if anyone would go for this,
but I'm glad you did because I think it's a pro choice.
Mm, delicious.
So this leads us to our next category, which I kind of
enjoy as a movie, and I also think it makes for
a great snack and that is for a Best Short.
We're talking miniatures, small things,
some even frozen.
It's like mini versions of a real candy.
- Oh I see.
- Like this is a miniature cookie.
This is a tiny portable Butterfinger.
A Combo I believe is taking the place of
a pretzel with cheese.
That's a claim.
Dibs, these are like frozen Crunch.
- There's your frozen needs.
- Yes, they're cousins.
- OK, these are terrible.
I know that because I've tasted these professionally
in my other work as a snackologist,
I have eaten these critically,
and they were very disappointing.
As a kid who enjoyed them and then approaching them
as an adult...
terrible.
- Not even the textural juxtaposition?
- I am if the flavors were good.
- I see.
You have a pizza one?
- Oh come on.
I'm literally about to walk off.
- I'm so sorry.
- Cookie Dough Bites.
It says try 'em frozen and that seems like how you
kinda wanna eat them.
- I would think so.
- So just, that's an easy way to eliminate these.
- Mm, mm.
- No.
- But easy to share.
- These do say that they're easy to share.
I would hypothesize that all of these are easy to share.
So I don't know that Butterfingers get extra points
for being easy to share.
- They at least advertise it.
- They're trying to bring us together.
- OK so here's where I think we're at.
We've got two Crunch products and a Butterfinger.
- Indeed.
- If I'm gonna have a Crunch product, and I have the option
of it being frozen into ice cream,
I'm gonna take that option.
- There you have it, Dibs.
- So then I'm left with Butterfingers or Dibs.
Now, there's a real problem with Butterfingers --
to me.
Which is that once you reach a certain age,
let's say it's my age...
There's a fear with Butterfingers that you may lose a tooth.
- Really?
Because they're sticky? - They're so sticky,
that I always feel like I have some dental danger
of eating them, and so there's really only one way
to eat a Butterfinger, in my experience now,
which is staccato, short, staccato bites
that don't commit the Butterfinger center to--
- Back teeth. - The back teeth,
so you have to--
- Gotta do the incisor, gotta get, nibble it.
I understand.
- And it's like a squirrel. - Right.
- And, surprisingly not delicious.
- Hmm.
- When was the last time you had a Butterfinger?
- Uh, I wanna say I had one last week or so.
But you know what I like, and maybe I'm just like
trying to be an old man, I like Zagnuts.
- Oh.
That feels very hipstery to me.
Do you put on your zoot suit when you eat your Zagnut?
Go swing dancing?
- How are those?
I wanna try one of these.
- Huh.
Almost flavorless.
Almost flavorless.
I've eliminated everyone now, so now I have to go back
to the ones that I eliminated because I don't like
either of those.
- Best Short.
Who knew this would be so traumatic?
Let's find out.
- What the sh*t, they're really small.
- Really, really tiny.
- These are pebble-sized. - Yeah.
And also not very good.
I feel bad hating stuff.
That sucks.
- I'm going to lunch after this, and I'm sorry.
Now I have to try -- some Japanese place.
- Dope.
- Yeah it's dope.
- Now I have to try the cookie dough just to make sure
that that is also not a contender.
Oh I hate the mealiness of the sugar in it.
The sugar is undissolved.
You know what?
Combos looking pretty good all of a sudden, huh?
I get it, I like your rationale.
- If you wanna give it to Combos by default,
you're welcome to.
- And finally, the nominees for Best Snacktor and Snacktress.
Nachos.
Pretzel.
Fries.
Chicken tenders.
Popcorn.
- Popcorn's allowed?
- Yeah, popcorn's allowed.
I mean you might have an argument for chicken fingers.
I might have an argument for nachos.
- You don't -- popcorn.
(chuckles)
- All right.
- I mean if you eliminate popcorn, then we've got a contest.
But popcorn is gonna win this every year.
- Why?
- Because it's (bleep) popcorn at the movies,
and the two are inseparable.
Chicken fingers and movies, those are separable.
- Fair.
- (bleep) room temperature fries and movies, separable.
- Got it.
- This is an institution.
This is the entire game right here.
You can't even allow this into the competition.
- OK then let's not.
OK.
For the sake of having a show.
- This is like the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award.
It should be called the Popcorn Award given to
another food product that rises to the level of popcorn,
which none do.
- Got it, fair.
- Of these?
Crap.
Now, none of these work for best anything.
- OK.
But this, absolutely, put it back in.
Then you've got your year after year after year winner.
- Right.
- It's the Meryl Streep of this category.
- It really is.
Well thank you very much for helping us get to the bottom
of all of these movie theater snacks or alleged
movie theater snacks, and I'm glad that you can confirm
popcorn as-- - Of course.
- The best and No. 1 movie theater snack.
Listen, I gotta give the people what they want,
and what they want is to know why.
They wanna know, "Why is popcorn the No. 1
movie theater snack?"
Do you know why?
- I don't.
- Well, I'll tell you.
The answer is at the bottom of this tub of popcorn.
- Well how, I know, I'm not gonna plunge my arm in
and root around in there like a pig looking for truffles,
so, and I'm not going to eat this tub of popcorn,
because as I said, I have lunch after this.
So I guess it will have to remain a mystery.
- So now what are we gonna do?
- I guess we'll never know, so, well, goodbye.
Oh wait.
- Are you guys open?
Crazy Legs?
- Crazy Legs?
Professional competitive eater Crazy Legs?
Crazy Legs, are you gonna help us get to the bottom of this?
- I am hungry and focused, I'd love to have a little
movie popcorn.
- This entire thing is probably considered a snack to you.
- Oh that would be a large tub for everyone else,
but for competitive eaters, we actually call that a small.
- Wow.
- A kid's small.
(chuckles)
- Well at the bottom of this is the reason why we eat
popcorn at movie theaters, and we need to know that.
- Well let's find out.
Mike, if you don't mind moving it towards me.
You can leave it if you want.
- I did some research.
- OK. - Yeah.
I read people like water.
- I guess I'll move this over here just in case.
I'll put it down here.
- Oh boy.
You're gonna do squats, too?
- Are my fingers in any danger?
- No I think I'll recognize those 'cause they're not
buttered yet.
- OK.
- I like the way you switched your hat.
(crunching)
You can see there's some of the, and we're not judging,
but some of the popcorn tragically falls to the ground, so.
- I guess I thought there would be more to it,
but it's really, literally just eating popcorn,
I mean what else could you do?
You have to eat it.
- Yeah, yeah (chuckles).
We don't have to, one does not have to.
- But if you're gonna eat it competitively,
I mean the whole point is-- - Jesus Christ,
you're eating popcorn.
- Yeah.
- And I can tell you by feel, he's nearly done
with this tub of popcorn.
- You're never bitching about a medium.
It's way too much.
- Is this at all uncomfortable for you at this point?
- No, you're fine.
I see it.
- Oh there it is.
There's the card.
And that will tell us.
Wow, thank you, gentlemen.
- Thanks, Crazy Legs.
What does it say?
- Well it says, "Though originally wanting nothing to do
with popcorn, movie theaters began selling it during
the Great Depression because it was cheap to make
and affordable for moviegoers, which kept movie theaters
in business."
- Well there you go.
Very interesting.
- It is interesting.
- Michael, thanks so much for being here.
Crazy Legs, thank you for joining us.
How are you feeling?
- Oh I feel 100%, I mean, Michael Ian Black's also
my etiquette coach, so I would be sure to
shut the door behind me, and he taught me how
to eat the popcorn correctly.
- I am very impressed by all this as I'm sure you--
- You did great, by the way.
(indistinct crosstalk)
I have notes, but otherwise, you did well.
- If you all have notes, comments or burning
snack-related questions, please leave them in
the comments below.
That's all for "Snack Talk."
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