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?

I sit at the back so i cant hear the rustling behind my head

I love eating at the cinema.

I usually get popcorn, drinks and something like malteasers.
When I was a teenager my boyfriend an I used to go right at the end of the weekend, late on Sunday night and always got coffee and hotdogs. It's part of the experience for me.

I expect the snack eaters keep the ticket cost down as the cinema make so much profit through snacks. Profit margins must be huge.

I did recently take a cream cheese and avocado bagel bought elsewhere but usually just buy at the cinema.

Bitofacow et al

You beat me to it!

Eating at the cinema is a foul practice, certainly on a par with sh*gging David Mellor.

It should be outlawed and those who do it keelhauled.

It has ruined many a cinema trip for me, having to listen to the gustatory noises of other people, and I just can't bring myself to go any more. (Mind -one of the worst offenders for food wasn't at the pictures, but during a sting recite where the woman in front of me noisily wrapped and slurped "sucky sweets" all the way through until told to stop by a braver person than I. The principle is the same. Just. DON'T)

We always take our own food in.
Nothing too noisy and crinkly. M & S do bags of popcorn that don't make too much noise (obviously saw an opening there).

The eating of popcorn and icecream and other snacks that would be sold at the cinema is one thing. They're been there FOREVER. The sandwiches, well ok - but rotisserie chicken and the like? That's an utterly piggish thing to do at a cinema. One of my brother's friends was telling me he did this too - and left the bones on the floor or kicked them under the chair in front.

It's the same mindset as supermarket snacking... when it's ramped up to scoffing beyond the end of a French stick, etc., then it's just showing a lack of consideration for other people. In a cinema, it's doing this at the cost of other people's enjoyment, which they've paid for also. Selfish, selfish, selfish.

Not everything needs to be ramped up to the next level.

I used to roll my eyes at the "no food, no cans" policy at the BFI in central London, but I'm warming to it. My personal and completely arbitrary policy is that popcorn, slushies, Coke and pick 'n' mix are ok; nachos, hot dogs and burgers aren't.

I can't get behind all the "It's only two hours, no wonder we're all obese" guff. It's a fun outing, and a bit of a treat for most people, and part of the treat is having some popcorn or a drink (or both). Is it somehow better if I indulge in artisanal salted caramel ice cream at the opera?

I like the cinema at Brunswick centre in Bloomsbury.They sell wine.

Haha metallic yes the reason I am fat is because I eat a 25g of popcorn, a kit Kat and a Diet Coke once a month during a film. Of course it isn't necessary! But it is fun! The fact that cinemas sell food and drink for people to consume during a film mean I'm not alone in my enjoyment

If you really wish to analyse me, I'm fat because I love cooking with oil, adding cheese to my meals, I adore baking so eat more than my fair share of cake.

Quite happy sat in the revolting 3/4 of the cinema with the other face stuffers. Life enjoyers unite!

I don't eat in the cinema or when watching tv.

But no, YANBU.

I always do.. every time. Cinema food is too expensive. Stuff it all into your handbag!

Fun doesn't have to involve food.

Engage your brain, not your digest tract.!

Essential, I think your policy makes a lot of sense. Popcorn, slushies, Coke and pick 'n' mix don't smell; nachos, hot dogs and burgers stink.

Shiny, I have to say I went there a while ago and a couple in my row spent the whole fucking film rummaging/clinking/fidgeting with their wine, as well as talking and flashing their mobiles about. I asked them to be quiet a couple of times but it would start up again within minutes. No staff to be seen either. And it was a serious, atmospheric film, not a comedy or a loud action number.

Wow I never realised that some people think eating in the cinema is bad, I always thought it was a normal part of the fun....

Digestive tract, seems I'm still seething from yesterday's cinema visit.

How on Earth does someone eating in a supermarket destroy another person's enjoyment of food shopping?

OP, people get fucked off at everything - your sandwich at cinema, your reclining your seat on an airplane, eating on a train, dropping by a friend's house without a written invitation, breathing. So you may as well just bring your sarnie in.

At £3.50 for a bag of Revels you most certainly are not! Last cinema visit for four of us, upgraded seats, 1 Revels, 3 popcorn, 1 coke, 2 Slush - £65.50

FFS, I would take a 3 course lunch next time.

As for those complaining about munching, I never hear it at the cinema. The adverts and trailers are that long all the food has long gone by the time the film starts.

'Wow I never realised that some people think eating in the cinema is bad, I always thought it was a normal part of the fun....'

Oh, you're not supposed to eat in public anywhere on MN. Everything smells, makes them puke, they have phobias, etc. You wonder how some people function at all in life.

Of course you can hear it.
The two young boys with the buckets of popcorn neve seem to have managed eating with their mouth closed.

We take our own snacks to the cinema if we go to a chain as their food is overpriced and limited in choice. If we go to our local independent though we buy them there as they aren't expensive and I like to support them.

What about taking a fougasse?

I always take a bottle of water can't stand pop. But unless we have a mountain of sweets at home, buy pick n mix sweets, popcorn and DD has coke to slurp. Maybe a tub of ice cream too.
Ours sell wine, tea, coffee, cakes so it's best to join in tbh.
Part of the fun is trying to reach into the bag and choosing your favourite without rattling and rustling too much therefore upsetting the anals who should stay at home and wait for the film to be released on DVD/sky etc.

I never said I enjoyed food shopping and I don't now anybody who does. I did used to enjoy the cinema until the bad experiences became common.

Because the same people who rip open packets of pork pies, scoff down hot chicken whilst walking about the store are generally not always the sort of people who put their rubbish in their trolleys but leave it for other people to step on, move off the shelves. Not all people do this but there does seem to be a 'type'.

There's a type at the cinema too - not content with eating reasonable snacks and quietly watching the film, they have to talk loudly, have phones going off and not mind about disrupting/inconveniencing anybody else.

Just to spell it out, lack of consideration. Whatever you're doing, I don't want to be engaged in it as well.

Thats just bloody rude Sapphire. What tosspots those people were. The whole point is you are meant to sip in peace and quiet and not be obnoxious. I watched Everest (LOVED it) in 3D and sipped rose. It was utter bliss. (Mind you was in London for a work conference so had no sitter issues, nowhere to go except back to the hotel, and was on my own. Best 3 hours of my life recently!)

I can't believe someone said they eat carrots at the cinema. Noisier than crisps.

There was one poster who would even furtively eat a sandwich, taking small bites whilst on an escalator, rather than eat on a train and thought everyone else should, too. Another told me I should only eat 'rice salad, cake, fruit or a polite sandwich' on the train.