Not to mention that as with most processed foods, you couldn’t get the calorie content of movie theater popcorn during normal home cooking.
Going by 10 calories (more or less) per cup, that’s 70 calories of popcorn and 430 calories of butter. More than half a stick, on what’s equivalent to about half a bag of microwave popcorn. Enough to render the whole thing inedible. Even the worst microwave variety, the pour-over cheddar popcorn, has fewer calories, a bit over 300 per half-bag.
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True, but when you’re talking about a large number of containers times the number of theaters, it can’t add much more than a quarter to the cost of the food, what with economy of scale and all. And some theaters have logos from other companies like Coca-Cola on their containers and I’ve also seen upcoming movies advertised on popcorn bags. The ads have to defray the cost of the container through advertising revenue, since I can’t see movie theaters giving that away for free.
Robin
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It might be the bag manufacturer who’s getting the money for the ads. It seems more likely than the theater chains.
[QUOTE=Hypno-Toad]
It might be the bag manufacturer who’s getting the money for the ads. It seems more likely than the theater chains.
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I doubt it very much. I can’t think how it would work. The bag company would have to offer some kind of discount to the theater to accept its advertising-laden bags rather than its plain bags. It’s much more likely to be an arrangement between the theater chains and the movie distributor.
