We eat a lot of popcorn. And when I say ‘a lot’ I mean we consume our body weight twice a month. But we don’t go for that fancy schmancy Orville Newman double movie-time butter with extra sea salt, I mean the $0.99 for 2lbs store brand genetically mutated ‘corn based food’.

We, my partner and I, have very different methods for popping the ‘corn based food’.

The air popper that we have been using since… well… there was a ‘we’, has a measuring scoop built into the top. I carefully pour into the scoop the prescribed amount of kernels and then dump the contents of the scoop into the popper. This results in a full-but-not-too-full bowl of white fluffy magic. A very left brain method.

She, on the other hand, removes the scoop and proceeds to pour the corn directly into the popper. Egads!! How arbitrary! Sometimes she gets a partially full bowl and others it flows over onto the counter, into the sink, and onto the floor. It rather reminds me of a scene from ‘Real Genius‘. Pretty much the definition of a right brain dominant approach.

However we manage to pop our respective bowls we agree on the topping… ‘I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter Spray‘. It goes on evenly penetrating into every nook and crany of those kernels of joy. She takes exactly 7 sprays, no more, no less. I, however, paint the top of the bowl yellow, flip it like a master pizza thrower, hose it down, flip, and repeat a third time. This insures complete coverage of each and every popped kernel.

I guess this is why we are perfect for each other; her measuring of the corn in arbitrary, but the spray is precise. I opt for exactly the opposite approach.

Balance and harmony are achived. Joy!