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

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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?

Mmm herby, horatio. I've read that wiki page, looks like I should try it. My mum will be going to Austria again soon, she can just divert to Switzerland if I can't find it here. Off to look >>

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You can apparently order it on amazon. But no idea of the quality, I'd be very sceptical. I think it was first created in the 9th century. So... it's. Like, I love it. DH pretends to not hate it and eats it with a stony face 😂

But according to this some English people seem to hate it. It's not really what one would call cheese... more like a ball of ...something. So, it's really cool you're excited because imo everybody should get the pleasure to eat this fabulous cheese... but don't be disappointed if you hate it, or blame me, please. I warned you. 😅

And don't be tempted to just have a bite of it. You either have to mix it with butter or grate it on something.

www.englishforum.ch/complaints-corner/55020-i-m-going-throw-schabziger-cheese-into-trash.html

I like trying new things and I'm quite happy to take your without prejudice advice regarding prep of it. I probably would have cut a bit and popped it into my mouth but now, I will give due deference and do it properly... when I get hold of some. Thanks horatio

lying. Yup, I get it ;)))!

(I love it when I understand English puns!)

I personally do eat it without butter.... buuut... I admit that this is a bit of an acquired taste, probably.

Btw, do you know Brunost? It's a quite inflammable and imo tasty Norwegian cheese. I think it might be the Norwegian equivalent of Marmite 😂

Never heard of it, horatio but, in for a penny, in for a pound - I'll see if I can find it.

Munster cheese with kümmel.

I should take that with me next, it will clear a cinema.
But seeing as some of you think it's OK to est in a cinema to fully enjoy the experience...

We used to eat that when I was a kid:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munster_cheese

Thinking about it... it seems like it's good cheese is a cheat food for me. And that I don't eat in the cinema...

Lying

I like it, it's sweet. But it's quite literally inflammable. So... yeah. 😅

This is a ridiculous thread. Cinemas sell food with the intention of it being eaten during the film. If someone doing what the cinema intends them to do disturbs you then I'd say the cinema probably isn't for you. I take it a trip to a restaurant is just hell with all of those disgusting food smells and people chomping? Honestly can't say I've ever even noticed the sound of people eating in the cinema

I saw "Bright Star" at the Everyman Baker street, and some of the more poignant scenes were completely ruined by the sound of the couple in front of us repeatedly removing their wine bottle from the ice bucket!

I bloody hate the cinema. I don't see it as a treat at all. It costs a ducking fortune for a family trip these days, the rows of premium priced seats are always empty as people refuse to pay the mark up so you have to sit on the side unless you get there really early.

What else? The sound track is far too loud. You get awful people behind you putting their dirty feet up on the back of the empty seat next to yours. Their kids kick the back of your seat in some rhythm that makes you want to tear their head off. They rustle and scratch with their food packets and containers then burp loudly cos of their dizzy drinks. Then get up and leave their rubbish strewn all over the floor.

You can't pause the film if you need the toilet or misheard a bit of the dialogue.

I find it so difficult to believe that people go regularly out of choice. And pay!

These days when people have good TV facilities available in their own home, with the ability to pause the film whenever they want, I don't understand why cinemas exist. "Big screen's better, innit", people say. But you can get massive home tv screens if a big screen is what's important to you about a film. It isn't to me.

I live the cinema. I like to watch movies but don't really enjoy rewatching things I've seen before. My cinema membership costs about £17 per month and I go, on average between 4-7 times per month. That means each movie costs me about £3 which I think is good value. I enjoy it and I don't recognise the behaviour you describe in your post. My local cinema is a multiplex in a pretty working-class area too not a trendy independent in Shoreditch. People just go in and watch the movie, some have snacks and fizzy drinks and some don't. Others have a Starbucks and a cake. Nobody burps loudly.

Should have said like not live.

Haha, we used to nip into the Asda across the road from the cinema and buy two little bottles of Coke and a quarter bottle of vodka. We would pour out half the Coke and top the bottles up with the vodka, then stick them in my handbag.

I can't drink vodka. I was always completely stocious by the end of the film.

Ah, those were the days

badlad massively delayed response, sorry! But regarding restaurants and misophonia, mostly not an issue, I think because there tends to be music or a reasonable level of ambient noise that cancels out the noise (so I'm fine as long as I don't have an open mouth eater in front of me!).

The rage comes from hearing the eating noises in a silent place (and as I said before, I have no issue with anyone eating in a cinema, regardless of where they purchased it!). So the most likely thing is at home, for example if one of my kids (who I adore with every fibre of my being) were to walk into a room with a packet of crisps I have an actual physical reaction I have to suppress. I get that it is weird though and I deal with it!

Also upthread a brilliant explanation of misophonia from U2

I'm not saying that everyone who claims to have it are lying, but not liking noises doesn't come close to the rage that people feel when they really do have it.

It is awful. I sometimes feel such a rage I feel like I could hurt someone and get horrible thoughts. It's my issue though and I take myself away from the noise if I need to and I do not expect people to change their behaviours.

We're not making it up, honest!

Badlad - you jest about the carving knife but we have genuinely had opera customers bringing a full hot roast dinner in, on a plate wrapped in tin foil. Also pizza, fish & chips...

Oh and yy to the wonders of sick powder.

Apologies if I have missed the contributions of any other 'church members' earlier - but all cinema-goers should really be aware of the rules here.

Please refer to the following: www.bbc.co.uk/5live/films/code_of_conduct.pdf

It can also be seen on Youtube. Hello to Jason Isaacs.

I smuggled my own sarnie in yesterday. No one noticed. It was less noisy than the rest of the food.

I went to a 10am screening yesterday and took in a sausage and egg brioche bun and a flat white. DH had the same and despite sitting next to him and listening very carefully (in honour of this thread), I couldn't hear a thing!

I eat in the cinema and I'm one of those horrible people that check my phone occasionally - never 'use' it - I just want to check that I haven't missed a call or text from the person looking after my child (but that probably makes me neurotic )

People on their phones, just checking or otherwise, is really distracting and irritating because of the light from it. If you really need to look at it, I think you should sit behind everyone else so at least it doesn't flash/shine in their eyeline.

The phone thing. The girl beside me was on hers the whole time at the last movie I went to. Next time I'm going to say something the minute someone gets their phone out. My sister said it to someone in front of her at a seated concert. They started recording the bloody thing, she asked them to stop or move & they got the right hump!