IIRC, a typical adult's saturated fat intake should be around 60 grams spread throughout the day. And of course, adding a small soda to that butter-free popcorn adds a few hundred more calories and tons of sugar.

Movie theater popcorn is the pits. And the prices are sky high these days.

Protip: don't eat anything in a movie theater that you didn't bring yourself.

/this includes dates

why cant i just do both?

Yup - nothing like getting 3/4 through a movie before you have to have a bowl-clogger.

oldebayer: Movie theater popcorn is the pits. And the prices are sky high these days.

Protip: don't eat anything in a movie theater that you didn't bring yourself.

/this includes dates

Ewwww. Dates give me the runs ;)

Sorry, but I definitely call bullshiat on this. Movie popcorn may not be great for you with all the oil they dump on it, but it's not THAT bad.

ricewater_stool: Sorry, but I definitely call bullshiat on this. Movie popcorn may not be great for you with all the oil they dump on it, but it's not THAT bad.

It's the same "math" they used for Global Warming ;)

ricewater_stool: Sorry, but I definitely call bullshiat on this. Movie popcorn may not be great for you with all the oil they dump on it, but it's not THAT bad.

Headline is wrong anyway:

The L.A. Times cites a Center for Science in the Public Interest report that analyzes the waistline-expanding abilities of buttered-up, movie theater pocorn

Wow subby, you sure screwed up the headline. Did you only read every third word in the article or something?

brainiac-dumdum: Wow subby, you sure screwed up the headline. Did you only read every third word in the article or something?

Is this your first time at fark? Welcome!

brainiac-dumdum: Wow subby, you sure screwed up the headline. Did you only read every third word in the article or something?

TFA: A medium-sized popcorn and medium soda pack the nutritional equivalent of three Quarter Pounders topped with 12 pats of butter, according to Center for Science in the Public Interest. It found that a 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

Suitable name.

floor9: IIRC, a typical adult's saturated fat intake should be around 60 grams spread throughout the day. And of course, adding a small soda to that butter-free popcorn adds a few hundred more calories and tons of sugar.

But, but, I can get Coke Zero at my theater with the large popcorn. That balances the equation, right?

Of course some places use hot air popping not oil popping...

SpinStopper: Ewwww. Dates give me the runs ;)

SpinStopper: It's the same "math" they used for Global Warming ;)

Haaaaaaaaaaa. The winky emoticon makes us realize you were joking!

I order a small and usually don't even finish that. Once, I did almost eat half a medium popcorn and my guts paid the price for a good two days.

Adjective Bird Whiskey: I order a small and usually don't even finish that. Once, I did almost eat half a medium popcorn and my guts paid the price for a good two days.

When I do eat the popcorn, I tell them no butter. I usually get an unbelieving look.

Popcorn is made out of corn, which is a vegetable. It's good for you.

St_Francis_P: When I do eat the popcorn, I tell them no butter. I usually get an unbelieving look.

If they would just give me the butter in a small cup, I'd gladly pay full price for a small. It's the best part -- and apparently, it's a lot healthier!

Schadenfreude ist die schoenste Freude: SpinStopper: Ewwww. Dates give me the runs ;)

SpinStopper: It's the same "math" they used for Global Warming ;)

Haaaaaaaaaaa. The winky emoticon makes us realize you were joking!

Keep believing that ;)

oldfarthenry: Yup - nothing like getting 3/4 through a movie before you have to have a bowl-clogger.

Try taking a lactaid pill before you eat it.

I go to the movies maybe three times a year, so when I do go, yes, I'm ordering the large popcorn, and probably eating the whole thing. It replaces a meal. An extra 1000 calories would be bad once or twice a week, but every few months? I know it's bad for me, that's the point. Things that have lots of butter and oil and fat taste good.

/except the "butter" topping. I'll pass.

CruiserTwelve: Popcorn is made out of corn, which is a vegetable. It's good for you.

So is broccoli. But not if you embed a floret in 2 lbs of rancid meat.

If I get anything other than a drink (which is usually water or lemonade), it's probably a pretzel.

CruiserTwelve: Popcorn is made out of corn, which is a vegetable. It's good for you.

Corn is a grain.

Racht: /except the "butter" topping. I'll pass.

My local theater has REAL butter and is the best damn corn in the city...oh man it's good.

You can have my popcorn...



... when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.

floor9: brainiac-dumdum: Wow subby, you sure screwed up the headline. Did you only read every third word in the article or something?

TFA: A medium-sized popcorn and medium soda pack the nutritional equivalent of three Quarter Pounders topped with 12 pats of butter, according to Center for Science in the Public Interest. It found that a 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

Suitable name.

FTFA: "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"

Bullshiat. Three Quarter Pounders would contain a significant amount of protein, not to mention vitamins and minerals from the bread and veggies. The popcorn and soda has none. So what you mean to say is it contains the caloric equivalent, not the nutritional equivalent.

I know it's probably just a typo, but it's wrong and I'm picky like that.

What the hell is a pat of butter?

Holy shiat that sounds good.

/excuse me while I scrape out my aorta

Racht: I go to the movies maybe three times a year, so when I do go, yes, I'm ordering the large popcorn, and probably eating the whole thing. It replaces a meal. An extra 1000 calories would be bad once or twice a week, but every few months? I know it's bad for me, that's the point. Things that have lots of butter and oil and fat taste good.

/except the "butter" topping. I'll pass.

I only get out about twice a year so I have to dump M&Ms in mine.

/too much crotch fruitses

Why the resurgence of calories as a key measurement lately?

For a number of years, we seemed to move past counting calories to determine a food's value or harm to our bodies, focusing on more important (and more complex) factors. But in the last few months, it seems like calories keep popping up in arguments for or against certain foods.

Is media and public ignorance just cycling back to an old topic, or has somebody actively started pushing calorie counting again?

I'm not going to worry about it unless there's actually a movie I want to go see in the first place.

I eat a large. With butter and about 15 of those little salt packets. I go to the movies once or twice a year. Let me enjoy my damned popcorn.

/I will die young, but happy damn it!

Perducci: Why the resurgence of calories as a key measurement lately?

For a number of years, we seemed to move past counting calories to determine a food's value or harm to our bodies, focusing on more important (and more complex) factors. But in the last few months, it seems like calories keep popping up in arguments for or against certain foods.

Is media and public ignorance just cycling back to an old topic, or has somebody actively started pushing calorie counting again?

Calories matter. If you consume more than your maintainance level you will get fat.

brainiac-dumdum: Wow subby, you sure screwed up the headline. Did you only read every third word in the article or something?

who is "subby" and why does everybody seem to hate him?

Submittard, the article SPECIFICALLY says popcorn WITH butter, and also takes into account the addition of a soft drink. But most of us non-retards knew you were an idiot before reading the article since it doesn't even make sense that a normal sized popcorn without butter (even popped in oil) would have that many calories.

When I go to the movies I usually split a medium without butter with someone else, and I also drink either water or diet soda, so I think I'm doing slightly better than a few quarter pounders and some butter.

Who can eat an entire medium theater popcorn by themselves? And don't get me started on the larges. Why don't you just back a dump truck up to my house?

I knew a girl that worked at a theater and just ate all the crap there everyday. Grained crazy weight. A buddy actually hit it when she was big and told me "when it was over I expected her to smoke a ham", I was dying.

UNHbeta19: brainiac-dumdum: Wow subby, you sure screwed up the headline. Did you only read every third word in the article or something?

who is "subby"

An unmitigated idiot.

and why does everybody seem to hate him?

Because he's an unmitigated idiot.

Perducci: Is media and public ignorance just cycling back to an old topic, or has somebody actively started pushing calorie counting again?

It's always public ignorance.

And such is my right, goddamnit.

Just because some stupid, fat farker can't stop eating something doesn't mean that the taste should change to meet his dietary requirements.

I hate fat people that want to make everyone else diet.

Perducci: Why the resurgence of calories as a key measurement lately?

For a number of years, we seemed to move past counting calories to determine a food's value or harm to our bodies, focusing on more important (and more complex) factors. But in the last few months, it seems like calories keep popping up in arguments for or against certain foods.

Is media and public ignorance just cycling back to an old topic, or has somebody actively started pushing calorie counting again?

What more complex factors are you talking about? Calories have been the primary method of determining weight gain for years. That never went away.

Fat content (as well as types of fat) made a play for a while, and there was the low-carb thing for some time. Those admittedly play a complex role as you say, but they are not singlehandedly going to determine weight gain, only more 'invisible' health markers. And it's questionable whether those markers play a larger role than being overweight / obese.

fusillade762: Who can eat an entire medium theater popcorn by themselves? And don't get me started on the larges. Why don't you just back a dump truck up to my house?

I've consumed the better part of a trash bag full of popcorn that contained one and a half sticks of butter and much more salt than is necessary in space of a few hours once. Good times!

And I'm not fat, surprisingly enough

oldebayer: Movie theater popcorn is the pits. And the prices are sky high these days.

Protip: don't eat anything in a movie theater that you didn't bring yourself.

/this includes dates

How about figs?

It is now cheaper for me to buy the Blu-ray than it is to go see a movie at the local chain. $14 a ticket, small popcorn is $6 and a small soda is $5.50. So on the rare occasion we do go to the movies, I insist my GF bring her big purse and I stop at Target and load up on drinks and snacks.

Woa Woa Woa- hold up here a second... Movie popcorn isn't health food? Why the hell didn't somebody say something sooner?! WTF?! Has somebody alerted the media? This is serious business!

/The wife and I go to the theater maybe, once a month and buy a popcorn and share it. It ain't gunna farking kill you. I could see eating it 3x a day everyday might be bad, but once in a while isn't a big deal.

fusillade762: Who can eat an entire medium theater popcorn by themselves? And don't get me started on the larges. Why don't you just back a dump truck up to my house?

I think the sizes of "medium" and "small" vary wildly from theater to theater.

20 CUPS of popcorn? An adult stomach on average can hold about 1 quart of food. How the hell are you gonna jam 5 quarts of popcorn down your throat!?

Center for Science in the Public Interest are a bunch of food fascists, fark them!
CSPI = MADD

Perducci: For a number of years, we seemed to move past counting calories to determine a food's value or harm to our bodies, focusing on more important (and more complex) factors.

You mean counting carbs?

NEWS FLASH: That's less important and less complex.