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?

Eat before you go or when you come out - our local cinema does not allow any food or drink in the auditorium although you can buy stuff to consume in the bar if you can't survive for a couple of hours without sugar.
No wonder there is a problem with obesity - presumably these people stuffing their faces during the film do the same when they are watching the TV at home. We have proper meals at regular times and the occasional chocolate or mince pie at this time of year, but we don't sit in front of the telly with a box of Pringles and eat our way through them.

I had a sandwich in the cinema

But i ate it before the film started as i too hate food during the film

My children mainline popcorn (which they only get as a very special treat) so its usually gone before the trailers

Go for it. Our local cinema is next to an Asda. I always buy our popcorn in there as it's £1 a bag versus nearly £5 a tub in the cinema. I think cinema's are there own worst enemies when it comes to snacks, as I think a lot of people take snacks in now as the prices are so extortionate.

As long as it's not noisy or smelly, or messy, I think it's fine.

No one's ever starved from not eating in a cinema.

Well, no, but sometimes one eats for fun and not just as a matter of straightforward survival, I believe.

I'm really pleased that all the pearl clutches who cant bear people eating at the cinema are staying home.

Hopefully that means we'll never have a repeat of the scene that occurred when DD14 was given a mouthful by a woman sitting a few empty seats away in the same row as us for daring to eat popcorn at the cinema. I couldn't believe someone could be so nasty to a young girl for doing nothing wrong whatsoever.

So if you're that bloody sensitive, do stay home and leave the cinema to more tolerant types.

Just go for it. I usually take a can of beer in to go with my nachos. I can go for a few hours not eating, but I choose not to, to make the film more enjoyable. I didn't realise I was annoying so many killjoys though - might get more next time.

As a student we went to a mid day showing of the film about the fifth beatle. We were the only ones in there and we went shopping first! We had scones butter and jam and it was fab!

I get people's annoyance with noisy chomping and stinky food, but people have been eating in cinemas since, like, forever! It's not a new thing. Poppets, Kia Ora, popcorn, dodgy hotdogs (although I never had one of these - they were too dear!) and choc ices were pretty much essential in the 1970s. Films were shorter then too (although there was generally a trailer movie before the main feature). And there was often an intermission.

YANBU to bring your own op.

Yes you are being unreasonable. Just eat before you go. It's a cinema, not a restaurant.
Like Worraliberty I can remember when people bought icecream during the interval, and that was it. A nice treat which was considered enough. People wouldn't have dreamt of taking their own food in. I'm sure the fact that obesity was rare in those days was a coincidence.
Yes I know most of you who take your own snacks in and/or eat during a film probably aren't overweight but it's still part of a trend.

We always take our own bottle of water and sometimes I take something like grapes. My husband adores cinema popcorn so often he will buy a small portion for himself. Our children aren't big fans of the cinema.

OP, you are not being unreasonable. A sandwich of Christmas leftovers is infinitely yummier than cinema snacks.

We buy snacks from Poundland next to the cinema. We've never had a problem taking them in. Now I've started SW I will probably take grapes and strawberries next time though - I do like something to munch on during a film! (yes! I am fat!)

That's really not surprising if you can't get through a 2 hour film without stuffing your face full of Poundland junk. Why do you find it necessary to do that? It's revolting.

Odeon have allowed you to take your own food in for a long time now

Allowed?? It's not as if they search your bag!

Oh yes because all the people here who can't stand munching, crunching, slurping and rustling disturbing the film, are exactly the same as that random rude woman, Creme

Someone I know left the cinema because the ignorant arsehole in front of them brought in and was slurping through a warm cooked rotisserie chicken. Why can't people go a couple of hours without stuffing their faces, no wonder the nation is getting so fat.

Computer I went to the cinema in the 70's (being a teenager) and the only food allowed was icecream sold in the interval. We all smoked like chimneys though.

What about the popcorn (Butterkist, Butterkist ra ra ra!) and the Poppets? Those weren't restricted to the intermission, iirc.

I always take a small bottle of water and a packet of sweets (like munchies or maltesers. I've never considered a sandwich though (but why not, apart from egg ones or garlic sausage). Part of the fun of the cinema is scoffing a packet of sweets.

Glad I'm not the only one who thinks cheesy nachos smell. Cinemas are clearly ok with people eating stinky food during showings, since they sell it.

YANBU. Ignore the peal clutchers, it's a cheese and pickle sarnie, not a vindaloo curry.

metallic, that's a nasty snobbish post.

I sometimes eat my own popcorn in the cinema. I sometimes buy the corn from an organic supermarket. I might also buy some organic chocolate raisins. Is that better than 'Poundland junk'? Worse? Equally 'revolting'? I'm quite interested.

Why do you find it necessary to do that? Not necessary, as people have tried to explain already, but pleasurable.

I hate people eating in eh cinema. I have misophonia and I hear is the crunching and lip smacking. So I don't go because selfish grubbers can't go two hours without shoving food into their fat faces.

The main thing that I think has changed since all this was fields, is talking. I am quite sure that unless the film was something like Rocky Horror, an all-nighter horror film sesh or a showing of The Great Rock 'n Roll Swindle, that people were as quiet in cinemas as they were in libraries.

I take DS to autism-friendly film screenings. The pearl clutchers would go spare in there - anything goes, you can bring food, go in and out, etc. Oh, and they kill all those sudden, loud noises and trailers.

'I have misophonia and I hear is the crunching and lip smacking. So I don't go because selfish grubbers can't go two hours without shoving food into their fat faces.'

YAY! Stay at home then so I can eat the food the cinema sold me. I'm a size 10, btw, not fat, but if it makes you feel better about yourself.

I always eat at the cinema. I usually eat afterwards as well. I'm not fat and it's something we used to do as kids in the 70s. Then we used to eat butterkist toffee popcorn or big packets of revels. Now I tend to have ice cream or pick n mix. It's really not a new thing at all. My Grandma used to take in a 'ha peth of sweets in with her. No idea how many that would be.