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Isn't the Smithsonian shutdown along with the rest of the gov't? Or is Smithsonianmag.com not affiliated with the museums?
Also of related interest is this article from 2009 that says: A "small" at Regal has 670 calories and 34 grams of saturated fat. That’s about as many calories as a Pizza Hut Personal Pan Pepperoni Pizza—except the popcorn has three times the saturated fat. Even shared with another person, that size provides nearly an entire day’s worth of the kind of fat that clogs arteries and promotes heart disease. And every table…
Medical advice straight out of the 1970's.
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I bought an air popper for popcorn on clearance a while ago. Has a few advantages to the "stove and pot," but it's not necessary really. Mostly it keeps the popcorn from burning if you're not paying close enough attention and the ratio of unpopped kernels is much lower.
Air popper also means less (or no) oil used.
You just need enough for heat transfer from the metal pot to the kernels. You can add more for flavor if you like, but you don't have to - the thinnest coating of the bottom of the pot is enough.
Also of related interest is this article from 2009 that says: A "small" at Regal has 670 calories and 34 grams of saturated fat. That’s about as many calories as a Pizza Hut Personal Pan Pepperoni Pizza—except the popcorn has three times the saturated fat. Even shared with another person, that size provides nearly an entire day’s worth of the kind of fat that clogs arteries and promotes heart disease. And every table…
Er, we do ask for more oil on potato chips. The marketing name is "kettle cooked", but "oilier chips" is basically what they're selling.
And you can get low fat kettle cooked which tastes identical to me.
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Nope, it's a specific chemical that smells like buttery popcorn, it's what they put on microwave popcorn. It also destroys the lungs of the factory workers who produce it (or people who eat too much of it): http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-57516710-10391704/col...
Whoa. There's a truth stranger than fiction for you. It lures you in by smelling like tasty popcorn but its really a diabolical chemical that kills you if you breath it for too long? Seriously? That sounds like something that kills people in red shirts on funky planets with numbers in the name.
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Wow, seriously? That's ridiculous.
It's really that the movies are something of a loss leader. People don't come to the movies to buy snacks, but snacks are how theaters really make money. Which means that you're ripping them off worse by sneaking snacks than you are sneaking a video camera in. Though with the way the prices of movie tickets are going up, I've begun to suspect that this is no longer true.
Source: projectionist at a theater all through college.
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It's really that the movies are something of a loss leader. People don't come to the movies to buy snacks, but snacks are how theaters really make money. Which means that you're ripping them off worse by sneaking snacks than you are sneaking a video camera in. Though with the way the prices of movie tickets are going up, I've begun to suspect that this is no longer true.
> Which means that you're ripping them off worse by sneaking snacks than you are sneaking a video camera in. // You're not "ripping them off", you pay for your seat. They're welcome to advertise at the payment desk that people who may have food with them aren't welcome however. Not being a persons most profitable customer is not the same as ripping them off.
We were much stricter about people sneaking in camera equipment though. In fact if an employee caught someone trying to record a movie the MPAA would pay you a $5,000 reward, and our theater would match that with another $5,000.
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Air popper also means less (or no) oil used.
The amount of oil used is tiny - less than a tablespoon for like 8 servings, plus almost all the oil stays in the pot. You just need enough for heat transfer from the metal pot to the kernels. You can add more for flavor if you like, but you don't have to - the thinnest coating of the bottom of the pot is enough.