To hate the culture of constant munching

[emkana]

Went to the theatre yesterday (Matilda), all the way through it you hear rustling all around you because people are munching - I mean come ON, you can eat before, during the interval and after, surely you can go for an hour without stuffing something into your face??

It would be if they weren't being so noisy!

Isn't that the one Tim 'Munchin' has just done the music for?

Ah I like what you did there yes it is.

YANBU

Oh, and

I'm with OP. When you have paid a fortune for theatre tickets you don't want all that rustling and chomping. Same at cinema, which has escalated from a bit of popcorn to skiploads of popcorn plus plateloads of nachos.

I amazed that people are willing to fork out such exorbitant prices as well - £3 plus for popcorn?? Madness.

I don't mind it when people eat.

But some people are such pigs! I sat next to a guy at the cinema a few weeks ago who just never stopped eating throughout the whole showing, and he was LOUD, and rude (talking at normal volume with his mouth full of food (popcorn, chocolate) to the woman he was with. It was revolting, and if I'd known how long it would go on for (most of the film) I'd have asked him to keep his talking down earlier. maybe that would have stopped him from rooting around in the bucket like some sort of piglet too - snap his attention to the fact that he's in a public place next to someone else!

I hate it too...there's a woman at my DDs school who comes and stands in the playground with a PACKD LUNCH! She has a thermos mug thing of coffee and sandwiches...and eats and sips as though she was in the park!

It totally winds me up. It seems to me that people are obsessed if for whatever reason there isn't food within pretty much immediate reach. I was talking to a family member yesterday who was telling me about her sister who when she travels on the motorway will take in the car loads of crisps, cartons of drink, sandwiches etc and she will also stop at service stations along the way and eat there. WTF??

It's an aside but I also hate how kids are fed food (usually crisps, sweets, bickies) just to shut them up even though they're not nec hungry but they're annoying their parents for whatever reason. But then I can see how I might be in the minority here.

I was in A&E just after Christmas, having a broken ankle seen to. A large girl with a hurt foot and her two rather overweight friends came in. Because my injury was older she went through quicker than me with her chums. I sat in the waiting room for an hour. In that hour (approx 4pm-5pm) one of the chums came out 4 times to get crisps and chocolate from the vending machine. I swear she only stopped when her last packet of cheesy wotsits got stuck in the machine- otherwise she reappeared every 15 minutes.

Having grown up in France I find this constant gobbling and munching incomprehensible. It's why everyone in this country is quickly turning into a lardarse.

Whilst I don't suppose it's any of my business what other people eat, I do kind of agree with the OP. DH and I went to the cinema (we don't go very often) just before Christmas, and I was shocked by the constant grazing. I think it bothered me more because it was all pretty much cr@p food, that barely deserves to be called food - pop corn is the food of the devil IMO, the smell really makes me nauseous, which is my problem and nobody elses, I know, but still!

I think what I don't like, is the image of someone, in dimmed cinema light, with gormless face, watching movie, and totally thoughtless their hand just drifting constantly from bucket to face, bucket to face. I suppose I don't really like 'thoughtless' eating. It reminds me of cows. Food should be tasty, or at least sociable, or good fuel for your body, or at least serve some kind of purpose.

Oooops, don't know why that turned into quite such a rant.

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'Having grown up in France I find this constant gobbling and munching incomprehensible. It's why everyone in this country is quickly turning into a lardarse.' Oh amen to that I absolutely agree!

People seem to be grazing and munching and slurping on something all the time. It's not even as though they seem to be enjoying it, they just absently mindedly shovel it in like stoking a boiler.

I have a condition where I have to eat every 2 hours in the morning when my sugar levels are low,or I start to get dizzy and start losing control of my arm and legs.For some people it is eat or faint;please be sensitive to us individuals who don't want to eat in public but often have no choice.I don't even like eating in the morning but I have this problem where my sugar levels drop too quickly,and the only way to feel normal again is to eat.

lovelymumma I am sure nobody here is talking about people who have a medical need (or even just actual genuine hunger) to eat regularly (I'm 35 weeks pg at the moment and am doing a fair bit of between meals eating!), it's more about the mindless grazing (of rubbish food) constantly by large numbers of people who barely even seem to notice they're doing it.

Again, not that it's really any of my busines anyway!

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I mind it less at the cinema than at the theatre for some reason.