First they came for your cigarettes, then they came for your food...

When I go to the theater, I don't buy popcorn. Not because it's supposedly unhealthy, but because it costs way too much money. But there's people who buy it. And apparently in New York, popcorn's time has come.

This is just getting ridiculous. They can't stop drug takers, they won't stop drinkers, but they're ogig to stop people from eating popcorn?

So it started with smoking, then trans fats, then salt, and then large sweetened soft drinks, and now this. "The board hand-picked by Mayor Michael Bloomberg that must approve his ban of selling large sugar-filled drinks at restaurants might be looking at other targets.

The New York City Board of Health showed support for limiting sizes of sugary drinks at a Tuesday meeting in Queens. They agreed to start the process to formalize the large-drink ban by agreeing to start a six-week public comment period." And then, after getting the ball rolling on that, "Some of the members of board said they should be considering other limits on high-calorie foods.

"One member, Bruce Vladeck, thinks limiting the sizes for movie theater popcorn should be considered. 'The popcorn isn't a whole lot better than the soda,' Vladeck said. Another board member thinks milk drinks should fall under the size limits. 'There are certainly milkshakes and milk-coffee beverages that have monstrous amounts of calories,' said board member Dr. Joel Forman." They've already eliminated coconut oil as the oil you can use to pop popcorn, and it's one of the healthiest oils out there and it's what always made the movie theater smell like the movie theater. No matter what you pop popcorn in, if it's not coconut oil, it doesn't smell like a movie theater. I don't care, Crisco, Wesson, Mazola, nothing is like coconut oil. And there's another reason that coconut oil was used by concessionaires, and that is it holds the popcorn much longer.