Why Pay more for Popcorn Introduction The eating of popcorn at the movies can be considered as the acceptable luxury standard that movie goers have become so used to, that its cost and nutritional factors have become unconsciously immaterial as to them. The cost of seeing a movie therefore, consists of a pre-decided package that includes the price of travel, the movie ticket price, a fizzy drink and the freshly popped container of popcorn. Although from the economic point of view the market up margin on the humble popcorn may be hundreds of percent above its actual cost, it amounts to just a small percentage of the pre-budgeted amount that the moviegoer may have put aside for his enjoyment of the movie. The Reasons for Eating Popcorn We perhaps would never visualize ourselves or other people eating a king-sized burger or steak sandwich while they are watching a movie, because movie time is not eating time. However, ever since our childhoods when we started making logical sense of things around us, we were led to believe and associate the watching of movies as incomplete without the ritual of having a container of popcorn and a fizzy drink in our hands. Popcorn is also one of those snacks that never fills up a person and is never enough and moviegoers want their stock of popcorn usually to last though out the duration of the movie. Therefore, depending on individual to individual the sizes of popcorn containers they buy can vary from small to stupidly large sizes.
The Essay on Eating Disorders 21
One of the most prevalent disorders amongst the youth of this era is eating disorders. While some overlook it and don't think it is a problem eating disorders should be given serious consideration. This is because the psychological ramification of eating disorders tends to have lasting effects over the course of the adolescents' life. An eating disorder is any of various psychological disorders, ...
Conclusion The carrying of home-made popcorn is not a practical thing to do because of the time and effort that goes in making enough and carrying an inconveniently bulgy container that would draw the attention of passersby and by probably by the movie viewing time, they would become stale. Coincidently cinema popcorn is very light and if ants were to carry some, they would easily get away with as much as three cubic feet of popcorn in one go without difficult as they can carry almost 100 times their own body weight. However, cinema houses have a monopoly over everything within their premises and the popcorn selling business does contribute in minor ways to supplement their incomes further. No matter how much we argue and counter-argue about the humble popcorn, it is surely continue to be sold and eaten in cinema houses for all future to come, and luckily for it, it will never have to depend of the quality of movies being shown in cinemas houses as it is an independent commodity in itself. The cost price of popcorn therefore has proven to be immaterial and will continue to do so with the future of moviegoers. Works Cited: Cinema Popcorn http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A169463.
