The one food combination that *truly* shocked me and my fellow Americans was that people around the world just don't understand why we put butter on popcorn.
Yes, buttered popcorn *is* a uniquely American thing.
Don't believe me? Well you should because there is a whole army of people outside the U.S. that thinks it's vile...
So, yes, I wasn't kidding. People are super grossed out by butter on popcorn. But now here's my mini rebuttal.
FIRST OF ALL, on the molecular level, butter on corn is delicious. And what does corn turn into?!?! OH yeah, POPCORN. Therefore, physics would have it that butter + popCORN = delicious.
Secondly, if you've never used a self-serve butter popcorn machine you haven't lived.
The butter that comes out of these machines is delicious/like no other.
And really, that's it. Logic has it that popcorn and butter is delicious.
In conclusion, butter and popcorn is delicious and everyone who thinks otherwise is wrong.