PrintNo, it's not another Michael Bay movie, but rather a new report from the Center for Science in the Public Interest on the (anti)nutritional content of movie theater popcorn:
Regal medium popcorn -- 20 cups -- contains 1,200 calories, 60 grams of saturated fat, and 980 milligrams of sodium. That's without the buttery topping that can be drizzled -- or poured -- on the popcorn, which adds another 200 calories and 3 grams of saturated fat per 1.5 tablespoons.
AMC popcorn is comparable (though it comes in smaller serving sizes), and Cinemark has a similar calorie-count but dramatically reduced saturated fat, thanks to its switch to canola oil. (Regal and AMC still use coconut oil, which is 90 percent saturated fat.) Just how bad is this for you?
A medium-sized popcorn and medium soda at the nation's largest movie chain pack the nutritional equivalent of three Quarter Pounders topped with 12 pats of butter.
Color me nauseated.
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Of course, that is all consumed post-Applebee's Triple-Decker Club w/ fries.
Hey, in nutritional studies, we have learned that its good to shock your body every now and again so the metabolic rate doesn't get too used to broccoli, brown rice and farm-raised chicken.
Of course, that is all consumed post-Applebee's Triple-Decker Club w/ fries.
Hey, in nutritional studies, we have learned that its good to shock your body every now and again so the metabolic rate doesn't get too used to broccoli, brown rice and farm-raised chicken.
If you go to the movies once in a blue moon, then so frigging what? An occasional indulgence is fine. And if you go to the movies more often, who says you have to buy anything? I seriously doubt anyone can possibly be suprised by this.
If you go to the movies once in a blue moon, then so frigging what? An occasional indulgence is fine. And if you go to the movies more often, who says you have to buy anything? I seriously doubt anyone can possibly be suprised by this.
Coconut oil-based "butter" + popcorn + a Coke: that's almost vegan by my definition. I mean, seriously: I was a vegan a couple decades ago and that's the kind of shit I would think. "Not real butter? Oh, okay then."
At the moment I got Miles' "Dark Magus" in the earbuds cranked up to 11, with images of Fergie, my favorite girl next door, on the brain thanks to Zengerle's comment a few posts north of here. For all I know Miles was a vegan, but "Dark Magus" most assuredly is not.
You know how you snatch a kernel of popcorn from the tub using only your tongue? Most women will ignore you and a handful will think the act disgusting but once in a while it gets one or two to thinking.
Somehow, combini ... view full comment
Coconut oil-based "butter" + popcorn + a Coke: that's almost vegan by my definition. I mean, seriously: I was a vegan a couple decades ago and that's the kind of shit I would think. "Not real butter? Oh, okay then."
At the moment I got Miles' "Dark Magus" in the earbuds cranked up to 11, with images of Fergie, my favorite girl next door, on the brain thanks to Zengerle's comment a few posts north of here. For all I know Miles was a vegan, but "Dark Magus" most assuredly is not.
You know how you snatch a kernel of popcorn from the tub using only your tongue? Most women will ignore you and a handful will think the act disgusting but once in a while it gets one or two to thinking.
Somehow, combining Miles Davis and Fergie and a big ol' tub of gooey nasty movie popcorn seems...so right, so final, so desperate, as in a Cormac McCarthy musical comedy devoid of polysyndeton. "The 120 Days of Popcorn," maybe.
The people who would outlaw movie popcorn need to work a few more orgasms into their weekly routines, IMHO...orgasms like butter-covered maggots gnawing at the ligaments holding their bones together, until they lose their rigid soldier's march and instead sashay down the street like the best of junkies.