I had to scroll for a while but came just for the sucks at eating popcorn discussion.
My husband’s first job was working at a movie theatre sweeping the floors between movies. When we met like 10 years later, I learned he strongly held this weird stereotype about white women not being able to eat popcorn without making a complete mess.
When I asked why, he said it was something he’d noticed when he worked at the movie theatre. He then went into this long Rush Limbaughesque rant about the most ridiculous amount of popcorn he’d ever had to sweep up being when the theatre was showing the Divine Secrets of the Yaya Sisterhood. “The entire floor was like a carpet layer of popcorn!,” “It was like they had all been throwing it up in the air throughout the whole movie!,” and “What were they even doing?!?” Even to this day he still brings it up when someone mentions that movie or spills their popcorn.*
I had to scroll for a while but came just for the sucks at eating popcorn discussion.
My husband’s first job was working at a movie theatre sweeping the floors between movies. When we met like 10 years later, I learned he strongly held this weird stereotype about white women not being able to eat popcorn without making a complete mess.
When I asked why, he said it was something he’d noticed when he worked at the movie theatre. He then went into this long Rush Limbaughesque rant about the most ridiculous amount of popcorn he’d ever had to sweep up being when the theatre was showing the Divine Secrets of the Yaya Sisterhood. “The entire floor was like a carpet layer of popcorn!,” “It was like they had all been throwing it up in the air throughout the whole movie!,” and “What were they even doing?!?” Even to this day he still brings it up when someone mentions that movie or spills their popcorn.*