Pajiba

Further justification for always smuggling in food...

Oh come on! How could you NOT know that concession food is high in calories? A bucket of popcorn has 157 servings in it, and yet people will sit and eat the whole thing by themselves and try to convince themselves that they're eating diet food because it's popcorn.

A serving is:

a) 1/2 a cup of dense food (think rice or beans).
or
b) one cup of airy food (think salad or popcorn).

A serving is never bigger than your head. (General rule of thumb.)

This is why I will continue to smuggle in my Corn-Nuts, Bun candy bars and Mike's Hard Lemonade/Smirnoff Ices.

Why not try some "Golden Topping" on your popcorn.

Yum.

I can't be the only one who's grossed out by that butter-flavored slime people put on their popcorn. It's goddam disgusting, how do people eat that shit?

If it smells like butter, and tastes like butter, it's still not butter? Oh, how I've been deceiving myself.

This is exactly why I spend my concession dollars on Edward cups filled with iced tea. And why I smuggle in Paydays.

As far as calories go, movie theater popcorn is the equivalent of 30 strips of bacon. And the saturated fat content of 40 strips.* wtf?!?!?

Mmmmmm.... bacon.

* (This is based on Regal and AMC, which both apparently use coconut oil to pop their popcorn.)

Oh God, movie popcorn is ridiculous. Part of the reason why there's not that much of a difference between the buttered and unbuttered is because it already has that flavoring yellow junk on it.

What I've done since my diet started is to pop a 100 calorie bag of popcorn (they're delicious and filling, you really don't need a tub) and then smuggle it in in a slightly bigger purse (I can usually fit two and some other snacks!). But since the 100 calorie bags are smaller than normal microwaved popcorn bags, they fit in my purse well (even already popped).

Junior Mints also aren't terrible. You also need to remember serving size. There's usually about three and a half servings in those movie box sizes of candy.

Another good substitute are those little baggies of sliced apples. AND 100 calories Hostess snacks (the chocolate cupcake, lemon cupcake, strawberry cupcake and twinkies) and AMAZING and only one point if you're doing the whole Weight Watchers thing.

/The More You Know!

Who finishes a large tub of popcorn, anyway??? Mrs. Kballs and I rarely even get halfway through a medium size at any given movie.

The best snacks to smuggle in are the delicious mixes you scoop out of barrels at places like The Fresh Market. There's nuts and pretzels and dried fruits and other yummy shit thrown together for maximum tastocity. Then if you want to support the theater's bottom line, buy a soda or something. I dunno, I don't have ALL the answers, ferchrissakes!

As far as calories go, movie theater popcorn is the equivalent of 30 strips of bacon. And the saturated fat content of 40 strips.* wtf?!?!?

Well, that settles it. From now on, whenever I go to the movies, I'm just smuggling in bacon. No more than 20 strips, though. I don't want to look like a pig.

It'll go well with the bourbon.

I'll stick with a Sierra Nevada in each of my jacket pockets.

Don't forget to recycle!

Y'all are total health snobs. I am a petite girl and when my husband and I go to the movies we get a large popcorn smothered in butter. He eats two handfuls and I demolish the rest of it every time. I have it instead of dinner. We only see like one movie a month, but the fantastically unhealthy concessions are a huge part of the experience.

I'm going to go ahead and claim it's unamerican to hate on movie popcorn. Just like I eat meat to establish my spot at the top of the food chain, I gorge myself on completely empty overpriced calories because I'm rich enough and disgusting enough to do so. God Bless this obese country.

Only 1500 calories? I'm getting TWO larges! Hell, If I'm watching that Kevin Smith film I'm getting four larges in the hope that I'll keel over halfway through.

Fuck that shit! When I die I don’t want it to be from no sissy car accident. I want it to be from bad health due to me being obese, I want to die with a doctor trying to do CPR on me in the hospital with a bunch of nurses running toward my room with a crash cart. I want my bloated body to be riddled with needle marks from the doctors try to find one of my collapsed veins and a fucking piece of plastic hanging out of my mouth. You sons of bitches, I want the doctors and nurses to laugh at my dead smelly corpse and when the two black orderlies come to wheel me down to the morgue I want one of the brothers to just ignore me and talk about some skank that he fucked last night.

One of the worst parts is that around here the large popcorn is refillable. And they always try to upsell you, "Hey the large is just 50 cents more" and the clerks look at you funny when you say no thanks. It is almost as bad as the waitress who recently asked me if I wanted a side of fries with my pizza.

I want some Junior Mints now.

Go for the small popcorn. It is 630 calories. I usually split it with the Mr., and then its 315 for each of us. Not healthy, sure, but it's not going to harden your arteries upon contact.

Twizzlers are 30 calories a stick. Sour patch kids are 140 calories a serving (note - - the box does not equal only one serving). And, my personal favorite, Raisinets, are 190 calories a serving (i.e., split the box with someome).

Hm, I have gotten soft pretzels at the movies many a time. The ones you make at home are about 150 calories. How do the theaters manage to add 330ish calories????

Anyway, I usually skip a meal if I'm going to the movies, because what you're going to consume is about the calorie equivalent to 1.5 - 2 meals.

Yeah, I think Pookie wins this thread.

I actually like the movie popcorn (though I rarely purchase it and only get the smallest size), I just can't abide the thought of that slimy "butter" shit dripping all over it. Seeing it and imagining people's greasy fingers pawing at their popcorn .... shudder.

This makes me happy that they're so expensive and that I'm such a cheapo. I'll stick with crackers and jellybeans snuck in my purse.

I've also noticed that there's a huuuuge difference between concessions in the US and Honduras, where just about everyone is a cheap bastard. A "large" popcorn is equal to a small in the US. Same goes for drinks. The biggest you could get is about the size of a medium cup in the US, and at best you can get the 'fun size' candy bars. I remember being shocked and awed the first time I went to an American movie theater and bough popcorn. It just made me wonder: How does ANYONE eat all this food?! Also: no wonder Americans are so fat.

And it baffles me that so many people have such a strong association between watching a movie in the theater and eating that they literally cannot do the former without the later.

It's called mindless eating, and you'd be amazed how often we do it. Just think about how many times we eat/drink while you drive, watch tv, read a book, or surf the internet. Do we ever sit down and just eat a meal or sip a drink? Or are we always doing something else at the same time?

Over time, doing one thing in conjunction with the other becomes second nature, and it's a hard habit to break. We think we're being smart by multitasking, saving time and shaving minutes off our day. But we are just mindlessly shoving (unhealthy) food down out throats, consuming empty calories and getting fatter and fatter.

I personally think this habit contributes more to the obesity issue, than say, a lack of calorie charts and less PE in schools. What good does it do the have this info if you aren't even aware of how/when/why you eat?

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