AIBU to want to take my own food to the cinema?

[Butteredpars1ps]

I suspect I am. But We are going to the cinema around lunchtime and I will be hungry. I don't like nachos, popcorn or hotdogs or anything else like to be on offer and I have a fridge full of lovely things left from Christmas.

Am I wrong to be tempted to smuggle in a cheese and pickle sarnie?

We took cheese and branston butties in the other day as it was lunchtime. We managed to eat them during the loooonnnng advert and trailer bit, but even if we'd eaten during the film you wouldn't have heard us chomping. I'm aware of making too much noise and will discard noisy packets etc asap.

Yanbu. I'll never ever again be trapped into paying £12 for cinema popcorn

My cinema has a Starbucks that sells smoked salmon bagels, people buy them and eat them in the screens. I've never noticed a smell. The only thing I'm ever able to smell from other people is nachos. IMO anything less smelly than the nachos is fine.

Yes they do have Gold Class in the UK where you can consume booze! (Bought on the premises, not everyone took notice of that rule though haha) The food costs so much because the majority of cinemas relied on the revenue as the ticket price made very little profit for the actual venue. It seems that isn't universally the case now though as some cinemas will allow you to take food in although at the time we were allowed to stop people who were obviously bundling a load of grub up their jumper! I never did though and don't know of anyone who was stopped either.

Oh and I always take (hide) sweets and drinks to take in on the rare occasions we go

I used to work for a WB cinema

Oh and PLEASE don't give 5 year old little boys nachos and cheese. Nacho cheese puke is vile

sphinx

Any cheese puke is vile. I once puked Raclette (so mountains of molten cheese) and blueberry pie... I still don't like Raclette but I do still love blueberries. So there's that 😅

And seeing as dairy gives me pimples and is apparently not good for me anyway it isn't on my diet plan (lucky me!).

Cinema food is rank..

I always take my own or don't eat.

We just take sweets and a drink, and then go for a macD's after.
Where we go, it's in the same complex as the cinema.
Happy days

When we go to the cinema, we aim to go at a time when it's almost empty (I can't bear it when it's full of other people!), so we wait until the final week that a film is showing.

Usually when a film is about to be dropped, the show times are a bit inconvenient. We have sometimes gone on a Sunday, for example, to the 11.30 am showing and have taken lunch in with us! It doesn't disturb anyone when there are literally only 3 or 4 other people in there and they are 12 rows in front on the opposite side of the aisle!

We have sometimes gone on a Sunday, for example, to the 11.30 am showing and have taken lunch in with us! It doesn't disturb anyone when there are literally only 3 or 4 other people in there and they are 12 rows in front on the opposite side of the aisle!

Doesn't the carving knife noise annoy other patrons?

SMOKED SALMON ,though?!!!!.Hell's teeth!

Here come the smell brigade! Everything 'smells' to somebody. I don't like the smell of cheese as I'm lactose intolerant and associate the smell with being sick, therefore anyone who eats cheese round me is a selfish, inconsiderate twat. On MN you're just that if you eat in public, wear perfume or anything scented, talk on the phone in public, drink in public, do anything in public.

'Freedom is not just about doing whatever you want to do. It is doing what you want so long as it does not negatively impact upon others . But I guess some see that view is just being uptight and "pearl-clutching".'

It's ridiculous because the bloody cinema sells food to eat in the theatre. If people find this negative it's THEIR bloody problem. People eat in public because they are hungry or need to eat or enjoy it, it's a normal function that a small number of people seem to have a problem with others doing in public, for the great percentage of the world it doesn't affect them at all, so we're all supposed to modify our behaviour just in case someone might be around us who doesn't like it? Wow, talk about walking on eggshells your whole life.

Smoked salmon has a smell if you stick your nose close enough but the smell from a cold smoked salmon and cream cheese bagel doesn't carry far, does it? It's not like hot kippers which I think it would be reasonable to object to.

'Smoked salmon has a smell if you stick your nose close enough but the smell from a cold smoked salmon and cream cheese bagel doesn't carry far, does it?'

On MN, are smells are magnified at least a 1000 times. Someone will be round to excoriate you for your lack of consideration.

I didn't know smoked salmon was a smelly food?

If I ate that in the cinema I'd understand. But normal cinema food? That's normal, I don't mind. And I personally don't even eat in the cinema.

Now, have a look at that cheese and be happy the person next to you isn't eating that...

Can't bear the cinema: I'm short so often struggle to see, especially when chavvy people think wearing one of those stylish high messy buns plonked on the top of their head like a fucking turd works for the cinema. I also don't like special mummies who let their special children talk/kick/scramble around constantly. If they can't stay focused enough to damn sit and watch the film, stay home and wait for the bloody DVD. Newborns, WTAF - is going to a movie really so much of an essential that you cannot possibly wait until the kid is older (and no, we had no family etc around while ours were tiny so just didn't go). The volume is ridiculously loud. I don't mind the eating (because the volume is so damn loud I can't hear the cement mixer eating noises) but scrabbling fingers in the popcorn box - arrrrggghhhh!

I go under sufferance for the DCs, DH loves the cinema so am happy he takes the mostly!

@1horatio

Urgh haha pack it in!! I had to clean it up as my first "bodily fluids kit" training. I can still smell it now it was YEARS AGO and I'm no stranger to vom and poop.

I don't think smoked salmon is smelly, is it? I don't like it myself but that's the texture. I wouldn't mind anything eaten quietly as long as it's not dripped, dropped or flung on the floor for me to step in.

That cheese looks interesting, horatio, is it?

Hi, in reply to your question. You are allowed to bring your own food from home as long as it is cold, that is the law surrounding that. Hot food a no no, but by all means take your juice/water /crisps with you and enjoy your film :-) . Happy New Year

Smelly right? I feel like bringing a sandwich with cheese like this would be a good way to empty the cinema. When I was a kid DM made me sandwiches like this for school. The teacher luckily told her to please stop... 😅

Lying
I actually don't really eat dairy (it makes me pimply, bloated and is therefore a cheat food)... but I love this cheese, Schabziger. You can mix it with butter for a sandwich or use it as grated cheese on rice, pasta, potatoes, gratins... pretty much anything 😍😍

@SmellySphinx

Bodily fluid kit training?

I still remember the smell of the cheesery from when we made cheese at school. And the cheese wasn't even particularly good... what a waste that was...😒

Thanks horatio, I will look for it in the deli. I don't eat much cheese but I do like it quite strong. You've convinced me to try it with your two heart faces.

Yeah, well they called it "training" there's a kit that congeals all the puke fluids to make it easier to pick up ewwwww. I think nobody else wanted to do it and the manager decided it was "my" turn.

Cow she was! Not really but I felt like she was at the time

Lying

As far as I know it's exclusively produced in a region of Switzerland. I've never seen it in the Uk. But then again, I've never looked. I wouldn't discourage you from trying it. Even if you don't like it... it will be quite an... experience 😉😉
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schabziger

smelly

Urgh. I personally don't really mind puke (puked too often when I was a teen). But congealed?! That sounds v vile.

A couple of butties in an odeon is fine, I remember once going to the BFI and there was an specific announcement at the beginning the no one should eat during the performance....ten minutes in the people next to us get out loads of carrots, celery an humous.