Mission Impossible III opened around Memorial Day, but because I was so consumed with the Seattle Film Festival, the Tom Cruise movie was moved to the bottom of my list. My frequent movie buddy Mike and I had talked about seeing this one, and we finally got around to it last Saturday night.
Flashback now, many years, to a downtown Seattle cinema, as I am asking a question I would continue to ask time and time again to the mostly kids working the movie theater candy counters:
"Why don't you carry Goobers?"
I have been diligent in asking the question ever since, and have received a variety of responses. At the Cineplex Odeon on Pine Street (a favorite venue back in the day), I was told that Goobers was not very popular. "Nobody eats those anymore," the ticket-taker told me.
"I do," I responded. "They're crunchy peanuts coated in rich milk chocolate. Who wouldn't want a box of Goobers with their popcorn and ice-cold Diet Coke?" The kid stared at me like I had suggested eating escargot as a movie snack.
The folks at the Egyptian told me the same thing. A kid working the candy counter at the Big Valley told me back in the fall that he had never heard of them.
Fast forward to last Saturday night. Mike and I purchased tickets to MI:III at the Big Valley and enter the theater about ten o'clock.
As we were walking past the candy counter toward the auditoriums, debating whether or not to purchase any snacks, something in the candy display caught Mike's eye and he stopped in his tracks and exclaimed, "They have Goobers!"
"Come on!"
"Goobers! I'm serious!"
The kid working concessions told us they had just gotten Goobers in the day before, and that they seemed to be moving very well.
MI:III is nothing if not a popcorn movie, and as I have said in this space in the past, the combination of popcorn, Coca-Cola and Goobers is second to none as part of the movie-going experience. (I will at this juncture defer those who might substitute Raisinets for Goobers -- after all, Raisinets are the first cousins of Goobers, and both candies are made by Nestle).
I enjoyed MI:III in large part due to the box of Goobers nestled in my shirt pocket. I look forward to returning to the Big Valley with Mike tonight for another popcorn flick -- Pirates of the Caribbean II. And yes, I will enjoy that feature if only because of the familiar box of Goobers that will be open and waiting in my shirt pocket.
4 comments:
Our local Regal Cinema stocks Goobers now as well. In fact, the best part of Click was the butter mixture of Popcorn and Goobage, with a Coke chaser.
then there were those nasty gummi gumdrop rings, the only thing we could afford, while watching TANK and some hitchcock re-release at the old richland mall cinemas. wish we'd had goobers then, too.
I can not even consider the ideal that Goobers are not offered at any movie theater.Living way down here in the South,why that would be like not having Moon pies and a cold RC cola or worst a little glass bottle Coke and a bag of Tom's salted peanuts. Unheard of!
You really need to move back down to the South, where the good foods are all ways just over the counter, fresh and inviting, all ways. Love ya, Auntie Joice
Give me Milk Duds for my movie-going ventures.`
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