“Entertainment Weekly,” which (I think) Nikki Finke hilariously and accurately describes as a magazine for waiting rooms, has come up with ten ways to save the movies. Most of the ideas are just warmed over warmed-over ideas we’ve all heard a hundred times before, but #3 caught my eye:
3. Stop killing us with your popcorn.A 2009 study found that a single medium-size bag of popcorn from the Regal theater chain contained 1,610 calories and 60 grams of saturated fat. Add in a large soda (350 calories) and some Reese’s Pieces (1,200 calories for an eight-ounce box), and you’re taking your life in your hands. John Fithian, president of the National Association of Theatre Owners, insists theaters are just giving moviegoers what they crave. ”When people go to the cinemas, they want to escape — from their diets, too.” Still, popcorn shouldn’t have to come with a warning label. Some theaters, mostly in upscale neighborhoods, have been offering healthier, higher-quality concessions.
Why are Lefties always so eager to strip us of our own personal choices (unless that choice is for taxpayers to fund sucking unborn babies through vacuum tubes)? And this is coming from someone who doesn’t eat junk at the movies. Popcorn and soda at my age goes right to my hips. But is my self-discipline unique? Am I a better person person than the elites looking down on us from Mount EW? Okay, well, most of us are because we believe in liberty, but my point is that if I can control myself, anyone can. And who is EW to control others for their own good. Sorry EW, there’s no such thing as second-hand popcorn calories, so there’s no second way to skin this cat.
How can the same Left in favor of euthanasia have such a thick stick up their backsides over nachos?
The movies are all about escape, about treating yourself, about getting away and forgetting about life for a couple of hours. If some bitter, hopelessly skinny control freak wants to munch on celery stalks while Margot goes to the wedding, no one’s stopping her. And if some lard-assed, video game-addicted, basement dweller wants to chow down on the gigantor tub of buttered popcorn while transformers rumble, who cares.
This is still a free country.
Right?
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