Movie popcorn equals three Quarter Pounders with butter?

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Would you order three Quarter Pounders just for yourself -- or for your kid -- and then slather the buns with 12 pats of butter and wash ‘em down with some sugary pop?

Well, that’s what you are doing when you settle in with a popcorn and a soda at one movie theater chain. A study by the Center for Science in the Public Interest found that a medium popcorn at this chain contained a whopping 1,200 calories, 60 grams of saturated fat and 980 milligrams of sodium.

1,200 calories? That’s an entire day’s caloric allotment for some.

Even worse: That’s the calorie count without the ‘buttery’ topping. Find out which chain, and see if your local movie theater was included in the study:

Does this make you mad?

-- Rene Lynch