Comments on: Regal Cinema calorie information http://hyperdad.com/2009/07/28/regal-cinema-calorie-information/ Piling more on my plate for over 40 years. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:26:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Steve http://hyperdad.com/2009/07/28/regal-cinema-calorie-information/comment-page-1/#comment-283 Steve Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:41:06 +0000 http://hyperdad.com/?p=939#comment-283 So back in the good old days, I was in charge of the concession stand at our local theatre. Suffice it to say we all sometimes looked for ways to pass the time between rushes and we looked into the 'butter' one time. First off, the stuff that comes out of those machines sure as hell isn't butter - I'd hope people all know this, but alas this is America where we are all so edumicated sometimes. Anyway, it's a bag that probably weighs 10-20 pounds (it's a couple gallons) and I remember we worked out the math one time... One serving of movie theatre 'butter' (a hilarious concept, having watched oh-too-many people saturate their popped corn with the vile stuff, I might add) multiplied out by the number of servings came out to something just north of 153,000 calories and I forget how many thousands of grams of fat in that one little bag. Cardiology, here we come! So back in the good old days, I was in charge of the concession stand at our local theatre. Suffice it to say we all sometimes looked for ways to pass the time between rushes and we looked into the ‘butter’ one time.

First off, the stuff that comes out of those machines sure as hell isn’t butter – I’d hope people all know this, but alas this is America where we are all so edumicated sometimes. Anyway, it’s a bag that probably weighs 10-20 pounds (it’s a couple gallons) and I remember we worked out the math one time…

One serving of movie theatre ‘butter’ (a hilarious concept, having watched oh-too-many people saturate their popped corn with the vile stuff, I might add) multiplied out by the number of servings came out to something just north of 153,000 calories and I forget how many thousands of grams of fat in that one little bag.

Cardiology, here we come!

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