Have you ever heard the phrase “Ignorance is bliss”? Yeah, well that term really applies here. I like to consider myself a pretty healthy guy. I go to the gym almost 5 times a week, over the last year or so I’ve kept a closer eye on what I eat… just little things.
However, I’m also the kind of guy that has programed himself into NEEDING a big yummy delicious bag of buttery popcorn and a large 5 gallon bucket of Coke when I go into a movie theater. It’s so weird… I could have just come from finishing a huge dinner, be really stuffed, but as soon as I sit in my seat in the theater my brain switches into another gear. Then the concession stand demons start whispering in my ear “MUST HAVE POPCORN… MUST HAVE COKE”. So off I go to drop my $64 for all that buttery goodness and I enjoy every mouthful and every sip.
So last night I was zipping around the net and I came across a few sites that talked about the nutritional values (or lack thereof) of concession stand snacks in movie theaters. HOLY CRAP!!!!!!! I’m not going to depress you with the statistics or comparisons I read there… but WOW!!!! It would be healthier for me to eat an entire tub of Ice Cream and do 5 lines of cocaine! I might as well take up chain smoking while I’m at it. I can already tell there’s going to be a huge battle in my head when I’m at the theater next… oh man… I don’t know if I can resist all that sweet carbonated goodness. I could really use some Nicotrel!!!
