We at Big Fat Deal deeply enjoy eating, especially popcorn, at the movies, with butter, and a large diet soda, and pirates. But maybe not so much mindless eating:

Mr. Wansink gave away five-day-old popcorn — “stale enough to squeak when it was eaten”— to moviegoers… Those with bigger buckets inhaled 53 percent more on average, suggesting that a lot of stale popcorn is somehow more appealing than a little stale popcorn.

[O]ur decisions about eating often have little to do with how hungry we are. Instead, we rely on cues like the size of a popcorn bucket — or the way we organize our refrigerator — to tell us how much to eat…

Here are a list of tips for cutting down on mindless eating. I can get behind the idea of some delightful vintage plates, personally. eBay, here I come! (I guess I probably should not get this bowl, though.) Thanks to Ian for the link.

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