Burgers It Is!

A quasi-wonderful thing happened yesterday as I sat in my seat at Lambeau Field for the Packers' game (the seat I pay for every time I buy something in Brown County, by the way...and no, I'm not bitter) The occasion, of course, that I was allowed "18 inches of pure aluminum pleasure" as we say in the tour guide business, was the success my sweetie had in the lottery this year: Brown County residents have the chance to win the lottery and subsequently pay $240 to get four seats to a game chosen at random by the organization. Really! IOt's the only lottery in existence that I know of in which winners have to write a check!
Anyway, I discovered that at the game, there was such a thing as a bottomless tub of popcorn! That's right! For $6 I could eat popcorn for three solid hours, and then some! Even a beer costs almost that much with NO free refills! This was my idea of heaven before Netflix and The Love Shack so to find it at a sporting event for cheap was amazing...until I remembered something I'd read recently.
It seems that an organization called The Center for Science in the Public Interest conducted a study of three major movie theater chains in an attempt to gauge the health quotient of their popcorn (the only reason I'd go anymore). Under scrutiny were the Regal Entertainment Group, AMC Movie Theatres (must be British!) and Cinemark. Each chain's medium-sized popcorn was analyzed for calories, saturated fat and sodium, and, well, if you're squeamish, don't read the rest.
At Regal, the medium-sized tub o' corn contained 20 cups as well as 1200 calories, 60g of saturated fat and 980mg of sodium. Oh, you want butter? Add 200 calories per 1.5 tablespoons.
AMC Theatres' medium held only 9 cups of product and contained 590 calories, 33g of saturated fat and, apparently, let the customer put as much salt on as possible since no quantity was listed.
Finally, Cinemark's 14-cup size medium corn contained a mere 760 calories and a miniscule 3g of saturated fat due to its use of canola oil instead of coconut oil favored by the other two.
All in all, the estimated caloric intake for a medium tub of popcorn and a soda amounted to the equivalent of three of McDonald's Quarter-Pounders topped with 12 pats of butter! Presumably, you'll be drinking water with that!
Remembering that caused me to stop eating popcorn in the middle of the 4th quarter...just to preserve my health...although salt is a great preservative, I hear.