I've never eaten popcorn at the movies, and have long thought popcorn smelled disgusting. I wasn't pleased when that American tradition was imported into Ireland when I was a kid.
Popcorn by itself actually smells good - it's just fried corn. It's the ridiculous amount of butter Americans put into it in movie theaters that makes it smell terrible.
It's usually even butter flavored oil. I agree that butter flavor tastes something like butter, I don't think it is the same. Pretzels with butter flavor are similarly awful.
Nope, it's a specific chemical that smells like buttery popcorn, it's what they put on microwave popcorn. It also destroys the lungs of the factory workers who produce it (or people who eat too much of it):
Whoa. There's a truth stranger than fiction for you. It lures you in by smelling like tasty popcorn but its really a diabolical chemical that kills you if you breath it for too long? Seriously? That sounds like something that kills people in red shirts on funky planets with numbers in the name.
