It is with considerable envy that I read the posts of others highlighting their Halloween food finds. I'm not referring to mini chocolate bars, tiny bags of chips and inedible gummy shapes. But rather products that are available year round, just made a little more special and spooky for Halloween. Jones Halloween sodas. Halloween versions of popular cereals. And on and on. These products do not exist in my part of the world. I know. I've searched.
So you can imagine my joy, my indescribable delight, when I encountered this.
Microwave popcorn. Spookified for Halloween. I couldn't resist. Never mind that I don't buy microwave popcorn and much prefer the air-popped variety. This was a cause for celebration. I deliriously grabbed a box off the shelf and dashed home to my microwave.
And that's where my happiness evaporated. Because these were not orange kernels of corn popping their way into autumn-hued goodness. No. Nor were they uniquely flavoured or spiced. These were quite simply ordinary kernels drenched in vivid reddish-orange food colouring as an accompaniment to the warm puddle of oil that filled the bottom of the bag. I could have wept.
My Halloween popcorn dreams thwarted, I resolved to create my own seasonal popcorn. After all, it couldn't be worse.
I began with a handful of kernels. Air-popped them. Melted some butter. Stirred in a little cayenne pepper. A pinch of nutmeg. A few shakes from the jar of complimentary "Barbecue Chicken Seasoning" that the liquor store was giving away with Rickards beer last summer and that's been living, untouched, at the side of my spice drawer ever since.
Not bad. Not bad at all.
Take that, Kernels!
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