Speaking of popcorn. What the Hell is going on with this supersizing phenomenon? At the movie theater last night I ordered a regular popcorn and a regular Diet Coke. The popcorn was about the size of two large microwave bags and the cola must have been at least 36 oz.! I said to the counter person: “No you must have made a mistake, I asked for regular size on both”…to which he replied, “Eh, this is regular size, sir”. My daughter glibly commented, “If I’d known it was this big I would have invited a family of five to join us!”.

Anyway, popcorn’s association with a movie is wired into my brain like Pavlov’s dog…I literally cannot watch a movie-theater movie without popcorn. Terrible habit really, considering the calories and amount of synthetic crap this stuff contains….not to mention the diet cola! And with respect to last night’s movie, Julia and Julie, it was of course the antithesis of the homage to good food that the movie represents.