movie popcorn

If you are drawn to stories about foods with outrageous amounts of unhealthy fats, you already know that movie popcorn is as bad as it gets. The Center for Science in the Public Interest regularly exposes fat and calorie numbers that have your eyes popping along with the kernels: a large popcorn...

Get a free popcorn at the movies March 18 through March 20, 2011, at Regal Cinemas, United Artists and Edward Theaters. Buy your movie ticket, then present the coupon that you print from the above link at the concession stand. One coupon per person. Make sure to print the coupon by March 18, 2011,...

Who wouldn't want to save both time and money? Often, however, one comes at the expense of the other. Convenience, for example, comes at a price. You'll pay dearly for the luxury of enjoying a candy bar from the minibar in your hotel room. Make the effort to walk out of the hotel and the price...

The Peeps are here! The Peeps are here! Love 'em or hate 'em, those neon, sugar-coated marshmallow candy chicks that are synonymous with springtime landed in Easter baskets and showed up at holiday celebrations this weekend. And many peep-lovers blew both their financial and caloric budgets all in...

The biggest horror show in movie theaters right now isn't on screens but in the tubs of popcorn resting in audience members' laps, if you ask one consumer advocate. Snacking on a medium popcorn and soda at one of Regal Entertainment Group's (RGC) cinemas is the nutritional equivalent of eating...

Eating popcorn at the movies used to be fun. Now it's scary, thanks to the Center for Science in the Public Interest -- the advocacy group that also has given the beat-down to Chinese food, fast food and most other things Americans love to pig out on. The group performed lab tests on popcorn...

You can thank the ethanol boom for the 40% rise in the price of your movie popcorn. Going green is resulting in my green going!However, there is more to the popcorn story. Physorg.com has an interesting report about a study of movies and concessions by economists from Stanford and UC Santa Cruz....