Indulging in Movie Theater Popcorn

Your editorial concerning movie theater popcorn (“Purging Popcorn,” April 27) has a kernel of truth in it. Splurging on hot buttered popcorn is often more enjoyable than watching the stomach-churning junk that frequently tries to pass for entertainment up on the big screen. An occasional binge does no real harm.

I believe Americans really want information and a choice. Information on ingredients contained in the foods they eat and the opportunity to choose a diversity of products.

Just wait until shoppers read of the high-fat content in the foods they purchase when more comprehensive labeling becomes effective this month. Who will be willing to purchase vegetable soup with 25 grams of “fat calories” per serving? And who wants to go to a movie theater and scarf down a bucket of popcorn equal to a half-dozen cholesterol-oozing Big Macs?

America’s corporate food makers better wake up and smell the popcorn.

KEITH ALLEN DEISTER

Reseda

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* Once again, The Times disappoints. Was it so much more PC to suggest it is OK to “go with the flow”? In this instance, the artery-clogging flow of coconut oil in our weekly popcorn-at-the-movie treat.

How much more responsible to recommend to theater owners, who run ads daily, that they hustle to find a healthy alternative.

EDITH TAYLOR

Claremont

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* Regarding all the recent hoopla concerning movie theater popcorn: Every time we turn around, someone, somewhere takes away something good to eat!

I figure I go to the movies about four or five times a year, if that much. So what if I indulge in some super-fatty popcorn? You have to eat popcorn at the movies. I mean, it’s a written law somewhere, right? Let no man take away my movie theater popcorn!

These days going to the movies is an indulgence in itself, when one figures in the price of admission, parking and snacks, anyway. So what’s the difference if one partakes of popcorn no matter what it’s popped in? In the grand scheme of things a little indulgence every so often is good for one’s soul.

RICHARD BRYAN CRYSTAL

Sherman Oaks