“This popcorn’s good, hun, but not as good as the Broiler’s.”This morning, I received a note from a Wedgwood Broiler employee expressing concern that every popcorn addict in town would be swarming the old-style north end restaurant in search of free food. Turns out the popcorn, which I touted as the best in town in our annual Best Of Seattle issue, is $1.50 per bowl–not free, as I originally wrote.But the funny thing is, it’s always been free to me–or at least when I’ve munched it alongside my baby brother, Tim, a longtime regular (we grew up a block away from the Broiler). “It’s free if you spend $25,000 on booze at their bar over the course of 5 years.,” explains Tim, dramatically lowballing what he actually spent at the Broiler in that span of time. “You probably got it for free because you were sitting at our table when we were nightly regulars.””Those are perks when you elect the $25,000 all-inclusive neighborhood drunk plan,” he adds. “I’ve got the credit card debt to prove it.”So, like Laura Onstot and her pizza bagel confusion, I apologize for the error (since fixed). But I don’t regret it, because that popcorn is the chronic, yo!
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