Comments on: And You Thought the Movie was Horrifying http://www.bloggle.com/2009/11/and-you-thought-the-movie-was-horrifying/ Coffee & Commentary Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:42:13 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: deCadmus http://www.bloggle.com/2009/11/and-you-thought-the-movie-was-horrifying/comment-page-1/#comment-47123 deCadmus Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:01:45 +0000 http://www.bloggle.com/?p=1864#comment-47123 Eew. It's troubling to contemplate calorie dollars in terms of lethal doses of fat and sodium. (What's LD50 for Big Macs, anyway?) I prefer to spend my movie dollars on Netflix, and indulge in bowls of Snyder's pretzels, or maybe some of the <a href="http://www.trails-end.com/estore/catalog/product_details.jsp?navAction=push&navCount=7&id=prod50009" rel="nofollow">Trail's End Light Butter Popcorn</a> we bought from an enterprising local cub scout. Eew. It’s troubling to contemplate calorie dollars in terms of lethal doses of fat and sodium. (What’s LD50 for Big Macs, anyway?)

I prefer to spend my movie dollars on Netflix, and indulge in bowls of Snyder’s pretzels, or maybe some of the Trail’s End Light Butter Popcorn we bought from an enterprising local cub scout.

]]> By: Brian http://www.bloggle.com/2009/11/and-you-thought-the-movie-was-horrifying/comment-page-1/#comment-47122 Brian Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:18:53 +0000 http://www.bloggle.com/?p=1864#comment-47122 Salmon poached in butter? That sounds disgusting. A layer of hollendaise (made properly which never includes powder from an envelope) over poached salmon is a thing of beauty to be enjoyed with the same moderation as fine wine. Sadly, there is no redemption for baked potatoes. The butter or sour cream might make them very slightly better because they moderate the effects of the carb explosion but is still best thought of as a treat, like candy. As for the movie popcorn being compared to McDonald's. That is an unfair comparison. The price of tickets plus the price of the popcorn makes the per calorie cost so high that McDonald's is way more dangerous. Even the poorest people can afford a deadly dose of Big Macs while my budget allows less than one movie a month. Salmon poached in butter? That sounds disgusting. A layer of hollendaise (made properly which never includes powder from an envelope) over poached salmon is a thing of beauty to be enjoyed with the same moderation as fine wine.

Sadly, there is no redemption for baked potatoes. The butter or sour cream might make them very slightly better because they moderate the effects of the carb explosion but is still best thought of as a treat, like candy.

As for the movie popcorn being compared to McDonald’s. That is an unfair comparison. The price of tickets plus the price of the popcorn makes the per calorie cost so high that McDonald’s is way more dangerous. Even the poorest people can afford a deadly dose of Big Macs while my budget allows less than one movie a month.

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