Movie-goers commonly purchase oversized popcorn tubs because the price difference feels like a deal, despite low production cost to theaters. Pre-show delays and long trailers encourage continuous snacking, often finishing the entire tub before the feature begins. Popcorn can be dry or heavily buttered, with patrons sometimes requesting layered butter pumps. Refillable tubs at some chains can contain around 2,650 mg of sodium before butter is added. Dietary guidelines recommend no more than 2,300 mg of sodium per day for the average adult. Consuming a single large tub can therefore exceed daily sodium limits even without added butter.
This being the average theater, they sell popcorn in tubs ranging from "large" to "literally the size of your torso," and you being the average theater-goer, you purchase the torso tub, because it's only a dollar or two more than the "child's torso" size, and you feel like you are getting a deal, even though it costs the theater something on the order of six cents.
There are commercials, and trailers, and Nicole Kidman telling you that it's fun to attend the very theater chain you are currently in, which feels a little pointless, but you think that it's nice that she's getting work. All the while you are crunching on your popcorn, perhaps dry, perhaps soused in butter. Maybe you even asked the concessions worker if they could layer the butter, putting in a pump when the tub is half-full, and then another one top.
Before you know it, your popcorn is gone. You have eaten all the popcorn! The movie hasn't even started! This is not the end of the world. In fact, this is usually how it goes. You did not purchase the popcorn under the belief that you would be eating popcorn steadily for the next couple of hours-you understood that you will eat the popcorn, and then it will be gone. You can live with this state of affairs.
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