According to "new" research by CSPI, the popcorn at movie theaters is loaded with fat in the form of “artery-clogging coconut oil!”
In what the objective scientists refer to as the “Godzilla of Snacks,” the consumer can expect to find as much “60 grams of saturated fat…That’s equal to three McDonald’s Quarter Pounders with 12 pats of butter.”
All of this might seem interesting if not for the fact that (a) they first reported these findings 15 years ago, (b) it is increasingly unclear why we should be concerned with saturated fat and (c) many people are actually trumpeting the benefits of coconut oil.
As ardent cinema fans, we would be the first to admit there’s no getting around that sinking, logy feeling you get when you snarf down a bucket of oil-drenched goodness. And the calories are enough to fill the stomach of the great Tanzanian Wildebeest.
But other than those few extra calories, there is simply no credible evidence to suggest that movie theater popcorn is any more dangerous to our lives than a good old-fashioned PB&J sandwich. But hey, debunking the CSPI is nothing new.
But cinema fans need not worry, for if there’s anything the CSPI’s 15-year cycle of parody has taught us, it’s that nothing has changed. We still devour our fat-laden goodness, only with increasing confidence from the real scientific community that the boogeyman doesn’t exist.
And for those who can’t wait for the sequels (SPOILER ALERT), the next villains will be cinnamon buns, Chinese food and, of course, the parade of evil fast food villains (i.e., The Hamburglar).
In what the objective scientists refer to as the “Godzilla of Snacks,” the consumer can expect to find as much “60 grams of saturated fat…That’s equal to three McDonald’s Quarter Pounders with 12 pats of butter.”
All of this might seem interesting if not for the fact that (a) they first reported these findings 15 years ago, (b) it is increasingly unclear why we should be concerned with saturated fat and (c) many people are actually trumpeting the benefits of coconut oil.
As ardent cinema fans, we would be the first to admit there’s no getting around that sinking, logy feeling you get when you snarf down a bucket of oil-drenched goodness. And the calories are enough to fill the stomach of the great Tanzanian Wildebeest.
But other than those few extra calories, there is simply no credible evidence to suggest that movie theater popcorn is any more dangerous to our lives than a good old-fashioned PB&J sandwich. But hey, debunking the CSPI is nothing new.
But cinema fans need not worry, for if there’s anything the CSPI’s 15-year cycle of parody has taught us, it’s that nothing has changed. We still devour our fat-laden goodness, only with increasing confidence from the real scientific community that the boogeyman doesn’t exist.
And for those who can’t wait for the sequels (SPOILER ALERT), the next villains will be cinnamon buns, Chinese food and, of course, the parade of evil fast food villains (i.e., The Hamburglar).
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