Are you a fan of movie butter?

I heard a ridiculous stat a few months ago from a friend that a tablespoon of movie butter had about 50 grams of fat. I was like, "50 GRAMS?!?! That's the near-equivalent of two Big Macs!"

In fact, mathmatically speaking, it's
x= Big Mac
y= 1 Tbsp. Movie Butter

y=2x-1

For those who question the constant, don't. It's there because I want it to be. Makes it look professional.

Anyway, there's more to the story than you think. Apparently even the popcorn itself is tainted! I'm not sure I even wanted to know that. And it's not only theatre popcorn, but microwave popcorn as well. Here's an excerpt:

The popcorn you find at the movie theater and in microwave boxes is likely to have been raised with the aid of insecticides, herbicides and fungicides, and fumigants. For a less-than-soothing bedtime read on this delightful subject, download the Popcorn Agri Chemical Handbook. This chemo-phobe's horror story includes a section on "tolerances" -- that is, details on just how much pesticide the EPA will accept in your movie-time snack. If you don't have time to curl up with this PDF, let me cut to the chase: The list of acceptable chemical residues is long and includes malathion, a nasty organophosphate.

To make things worse:

You know the fake but yummy buttery smell that wafts out of microwave popcorn bags? Until very recently, it was due to a flavoring agent, diacetyl, which causes the serious, potentially deadly, and ignobly-nicknamed disease popcorn lung, that has sickened factory workers who inhaled the stuff. After popcorn lung sickened a consumer -- a Colorado man who ate a whole lot of microwave popcorn -- many big popcorn makers pulled it from their products. Despite pressure from lung doctors, public interest groups, citizens, unions, politicians, and so forth, the FDA still classifies diacetyl, as "Generally Recognized as Safe" (GRAS). California, meanwhile, is trying to ban it.

Read the full article here.

Meanwhile, I'm going to go brainstorm for another decent movie snack. Anyone have any ideas?