Movies | November 19, 2009 | 11 comments

Movie Theater Popcorn is as Healthy as a Hamburger in Butter

source: http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-sci-movie-popcorn19-2009nov19

jlichman
A little off-topic, but close enough to merit this.
"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, according to a report released today by the advocacy group Center for Science in the Public Interest."

More importantly--what sort of measurement is a "pat" of butter?

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-sci-movie-popcorn19-2009nov19,0,...
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  • CalgarC
  • lu7cky
  • donnyin3d
  • Tao_D
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      Tao_D  

    • Hmm, Guess, I will have to tell my all culinary professors back at the university they were wrong about "pat" of butter cause of Current dot com user plaidninja. Thanks for clearing that up for me.

    • 2 years ago
  • plaidninja
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      plaidninja  

    • I don't understand why movie theaters haven't gone to air popped popcorn. Wouldn't it be cheaper if they didn't need to purchase oil for popping corn?

      Still, the article loses a bit of credibility by using antiquated terms like "pats of butter" - which is a layman's term, but NOT a culinary term. There is no standard definition of a "pat of butter" - the tbs lines on a stick denote tablespoons of butter. You might cut a tbs off the stick and call it a pat, but that doesn't mean anyone else will recognize that measurement.

    • 2 years ago
  • Tao_D
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      Tao_D  

    • "Pat" of butter is culinary term. It means 1 tablespoon of butter equivalent. If you get out a stick of butter from you fridge and look at the lines on it that say 1 TBSP, well each line represents a "pat" of butter.

    • 2 years ago
  • cccocanicola
  • jlichman
  • neodobby
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      neodobby  
    • cccocanicola:

      the link is fine.

      btw, the article doesn't point out that the reason why ppl don't like the canola oil popcorn is because it doesn't smell as good, there's really no different in taste.

    • 2 years ago
  • neodobby
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      neodobby  

    • that's why I stick w/ the nachos w/ cheese, last time I had a movie-popcorn-relapse I got sick & had to leave out early, but that was @ The Informant, so its not like I was missing an entertaining movie.

      btw, that's an uncanny Madden impression

    • 2 years ago
  • CarlosIsDown
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