Boston.com Movie Nation writes Movie popcorn = 3 quarter pounders?.
"The non-profit Center for Science in the Public Interest released a report and a news release today that claims a medium popcorn [without butter] and soda combo at your average movie theater contains as much as 1,610 calories and three days of saturated fat. According to the report, the Regal Cinema chain is the worst offender, with AMC close behind; based on CSPI's independent lab tests, both chains drastically underreport the calorie counts in their snack food. At least the smaller Cinemark chain pops their popcorn in canola oil instead of artery-busting coconut oil."
Turns out Regal's medium and large popcorn are the same size, though the large is a dollar more. And really coconut oil?!? I remember a report from 15-20 years ago saying movie theater popcorn was cooked in bad oils and all the chains changed. What happened?
3 comments:
very interested to know what how much of that is contributed by the soda?
i s'pose i could figure it out and do the math on my own ...
(BAD internet-monkey!)
Look at the report, it's only 5 pages with pretty graphics. The big chart on page 2 is particularly informative (just popcorn).
*shudder*
ooh, i just read that report, and it gave me the willies.
(me, i don't bother with theater concessions in the first place - the one or two times a year i even get INTO a theater, i usually bring a sandwich and a flask of brandy)
but to repeat: *shudder*
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