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Culinary no-no #157
Come Saturday afternoon, the rule of thumb was to try to get there before 12:30. You’d probably have to stand in line, but hopefully you’d be situated somewhere near the front.
About 12:30, a woman would enter the small booth in front of the building and start selling. Doors would fly open, and the weekend movie experience was underway.
Get in line outside.
Buy ticket.
Scope out seats inside.
Then make a beeline for the concession stand.
Make sure you’re in your seat by the 1:00 start, usually a couple of cartoons before the first film of a double feature.
It’s a shame today’s young movie crowd missed out on the theater atmosphere of decades ago: the live organ music entertainment, the balcony, the usher and his flashlight, the twinkling lights in the ceiling, the hallways darkened so opened doors would not let in annoying light.
And an affordable concession stand you could load up on.
Let's see.
Gotta have.......
And maybe ....
Or how about .....
And because all these things go better with.....
But the must have was definitely.....
Gotta have popcorn.
Greasy, buttery, messy popcorn.
Well, it ain’t the 50’s and 60’s anymore when it was sacrilegious to think of an afternoon at the show house without a bevy of snacks. There are food police and fuddy duddies everywhere.
Michael Lynton, chairman and chief executive of Sony Pictures, spoke at a recent convention of theater owners in
Here we go again. You are fat. Blame the movies.
The London Times reports one of these....
Has the same amount of fat as six of these....
McDonald's Cheeseburger.
Plus 1,100 calories.
No popcorn at the movies?
Who’d be so foolish as to bash such an institution?
Rosecrans Baldwin, that’s who.
Baldwin this month took off on popcorn in a piece on Slate.com that
“I'm routinely surprised to see people eating popcorn—those slimy Styrofoam berries, those dehydrated sea sponges. And it's never dainty picking, the consumption of popcorn. It's gorging. It's glutton-eering. It's the cramming of greasy, tasteless florets in Natural Flavoring down the esophagus is what it is.
Popcorn is cinema's worst enemy. Worse than cell phones……… popcorn eaters sound like they're engaging in jungle combat—all that squealing and crunching. And say what you want about cigarettes causing cancer, at least smoking is silent.”
Baldwin’s finisher about the evils of popcorn: the very salvation of
“This one's simple. If all the corn that goes into making popcorn was diverted to the ethanol-fuel industry, we wouldn't be so dependent on foreign oil.”
Yep.
Nutjob.
Back To Sony Pictures’ Michael Lynton.
The London Times reports Lynton believes, “audiences would be better off nibbling on granola bars, fruit salad, yogurt and vegetable crudités with dips.”
Are you kidding me?
That would go over like Jaws VIII.
Even Lynton knows his idea borders on Communistic. It would be like a ban on brats at
Understand that movie theaters make little, if anything on the movies, per se. Most if not all ticket money goes right back to
Fully realizing that kernels are cashbox kings, Lynton in almost the same breath as his urgent health-conscious request softens his approach by saying he’s not suggesting popcorn be tossed off the menu. He’d prefer some other options be offered in addition to the classic snacks like baked crisps and unbuttered, air-popped popcorn.
Ummm, then why the hell bother?
Baked crisps?
I’ll just betcha Lynton voted for Obama.
Read more in the London Times. Make sure you read the last paragraph for a good laugh.
Banning popcorn in movie theaters.
Yeh, right.
That could never happen.
CULINARY NO-NO BONUS
Speaking of unhealthy, this is just beyond stupid.
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