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to think only head cases buy food at cinemas?

88 replies

YouGoGlennCoco · 25/02/2011 14:39

With water there more expensive than petrol and popcorn £1 per kernel?

And #judgey it's often the families who can I'll afford it right at the front of the q.

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LadyBiscuit · 25/02/2011 14:59

Shatners - I paid £4 for the smallest size container of popcorn the other day. That's fucking daylight robbery. It was stale too.

That's not treating your family, that's being a complete mug.

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YouGoGlennCoco · 25/02/2011 15:03

Poor financial management. I took in some water. And stale bread to show the nippers wartime spirit.

They thanked me heartily for the scraps I gave them

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NettoSuperstar · 25/02/2011 15:04

Shatners, I treat my DD- to a trip to the cinema, some sweeties and a meal.
It's reasonably priced the way I do it, and comes with a free toyGrin

Treat is not some stale popcorn priced at the same as a weekly shop.

I also make sure she does not eat her sweets in the cinema in a piggy way or as though she has not been fed for a month.

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YouGoGlennCoco · 25/02/2011 15:06

Mine were pleased to discover leftovers after the piggies left.
Now you know why one family always sits tight

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ShatnersBassoon · 25/02/2011 15:06

LadyBiscuit I agree that you were a mug for paying £4 for stale food.

I just don't have an issue with people paying for something they enjoy. A couple of pints, a box of chocolates, popcorn at the cinema, probably all cost roughly the same and none is more worthwhile than the others.

LemonDifficult · 25/02/2011 15:07

'They sweep the popcorn off the floor and put it back in the machines, you know.'

DH and I have discussed doing that ourselves, but the problem is you'd be mixing salt with sweet. We do gather up the stuff that's fallen down our tracksuit tops though.

NettoSuperstar · 25/02/2011 15:07

She's trying to talk me into the Justin Bieber film, and I'm resisiting.
Piggy/fat/expensive stale popcorn eaters aside, I fear I may kill myself half way through the film, and I'm just not sure that's good for DD.

ShatnersBassoon · 25/02/2011 15:08

I must have lived a charmed cinemagoing life, but I've never paid for stale popcorn. Sometimes I buy it, sometimes I don't, but I've never thought it didn't taste nice.

lololizzy · 25/02/2011 15:10

i did treat myself to ice cream but no more now it's not much less than the sodding film! how can that be right?!

Punkatheart · 25/02/2011 15:11

I take grapes, maybe strawberries, popcorn bought from a shop and drinks. My daughter - a chip off the old block - would never dream of paying huge amounts of money in the cinema.

But I will NEVER understand the way people throw all the stuff on the floor. I bring a bag to put it all in and it goes in the bin. Just like at home.

Grandmasterpudge · 25/02/2011 15:12

im with you OP, we but it from garage on way there

MappandLucia · 25/02/2011 15:12

My sister goes to a rather nice cinema where you sit at tables and have a glass of wine and a tiny portion of pringles.

She now refuses to go to ordinary cinemas and endure the bad habits of the proles.

Cazza72 · 25/02/2011 15:13

ahhh ... when we go we buy popcorn and a drink, but generally to share between us! But to be fair, we go about once a year! If we went regularly I wouldn't be forking out, but as it is, it's part and parcel of the whole trip!

Deaddei · 25/02/2011 15:16

I hate people chomping food in the cinema, which is why I go about once very ten years.
Dh asked a woman last week if she was going to make a noise rustling her crisps all through the film..........he actually moved to another part of the cinema. Abandoned me.

QuelleLeJeff · 25/02/2011 15:19

They actually physically check your bags at our cinema and if you are found to be smuggling in food they march you out to the bin and make you dump it before you are allowed into see the film.

I saw an elderly lady being forced to throw away her Chocolate Limes and the look in her eyes haunts me to this very day.

Punkatheart · 25/02/2011 15:20

Mappandlucia - that sounds like Henley cinema - which is fab. You can have tea and take it into the cinema. Now that I will pay for!

Who eats crisps! How selfish!

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YouGoGlennCoco · 25/02/2011 15:21

Lol at jeff

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MappandLucia · 25/02/2011 15:26

arf at Jeff

Posho cinema is the Rex in Berkhamsted

Diablo82 · 25/02/2011 15:29

Actually I think YABU. If people can afford to purchase food at the cinema I'm not sure why it is any concern of yours. TBH your post sounds very resentful.

QuelleLeJeff · 25/02/2011 15:30

I've been to a posho cinema as well, well they said it was posh and it cost a fortune, but the only difference seemed to be that you got a couple of those vile godiva seashell chocolates and you got to sit in a seat that didn't condemn you to arthritus in later life.

Pagwatch · 25/02/2011 15:31

At our cinema they won't let you in if you have your own food. They check your bags.

And if you think I am sitting through tangled without a cappuccino and some popcorn then you are demented.

MollieO · 25/02/2011 15:33

I paid £3.95 for a 'small' popcorn for ds this morning. It was so big that if we had wanted to take it home I reckon it would have been too big to fit in the car. I'd rather have paid half that and had a box half the size.

olderandwider · 25/02/2011 15:34

MappandLucia - that is the only way to see a film imo. Sofa, tasteful treats, glass of wine beside you. So civilised.

redrollers · 25/02/2011 15:34

yabvvvvu
it's the best part of going to the movies. It's not the same without popcorn, and it's not the same if it's out of a packet.
It's not about not being able to go 2 hours without eating.
I find it very strange that people take their own snacks
I can understand if it's about money, but not just for the sake of eating.

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YouGoGlennCoco · 25/02/2011 15:36

I think I can smell common

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