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 had no idea there were people who objected to eating in public until I read this thread.

I also eat on the train, on the plane, in parks, at concerts. I must really piss people off...

I only go to Gold Class. max 30 odd people with huge recliners so they are further away and less people less noise and you can't see other people's phones if they look. Bliss.
Do they have these in the U.K.?

MrsGrady, I'm sure you don't. It's not the eating in public, it's the gratuitous encroachment onto other people that some people revel in doing. Normal mannered behaviour isn't a problem for most, I would have thought. It isn't for me, anyway.

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

Stay home, then. More time to scold people on the internet.

There you go, OP, your cheese and pickle sarnie is up there with the scourge of humanity. It's all going to hell in a hand cart! Tsk, tsk! Back in my day, we had to bring coal for the fire at cinema. It belched out a lot of soot, but we had pride and things were so much better back then.

I don't mind people eating in public. I just don't understand why somebody would eat whilst watching a movie...

I eat lunch infront of the computer if I don't have time for a lunch break. Not because it's something I particularly enjoy.

Enjoy your sandwich OP. I don't get why you want it but I don't think YABU at all.

Good grief.

You go to the cinema. You watch the film. You leave.

You do not need to fill your face, or scoff sweets, or slurp drinks, or play on your phone or have sex!

Watch the fucking film!

You do, MrsGray, you're selfish and inconsiderate. And if you're on the last leg of a long haul flight, you are not to recline your seat to sleep without first clearing it with the cockpit.

Last time I went to the cinema I had a bottle of water and a bar of chocolate stashed in my bag. I always have water, the chocolate was an extra. (It was Green & Black's milk chocolate, is that okay?) I unwrapped it during the trailers, so it wouldn't disturb anyone else, and then just ate little bits during the film. I'm not paying more for cheap rubbish chocolate than G&B. I hate just sitting and not having anything for my hands to do, but I can't write because it's too dark and I can't really do anything else in a practical way. Maybe I should take up knitting?

'I eat lunch infront of the computer if I don't have time for a lunch break.'

OMG! You stink out the whole office when you do that! Everyone hates you! Don't tell me you kick off your shoes under your desk, too?

I like filling my face.

I like farting but I wouldn't do it next to you in the cinema.

expat

I don't share my office with anybody else, so... but yes, I even take my shoes off 😂😂

Well, unless you were eating......

The cinemas are the ones to blame here not the people eating. They provide nachos, hot dogs, popcorn, sweeties and giant juices so people associate eating with cinema going. You don't have to eat but if you don't like people eating whilst watching a film why would you go to the cinema in the first place? Food free showings? Now I might go to that.

Our local cinema has started to recognise that people won't pay for their overpriced snacks so they leave popcorn boxes on a table and they ask that people with their own sweets/crisps etc tip them into a box so that there's less packet crinkling. It actually has made q bit of a difference I've found.

I haven't been to the cinema for years, but back in the time before even VHS videos, a guilty pleasure was those awful hotdogs with red (couldn't really call it tomato) sauce on them. Only ever served in cinemas, much like their cousins, the fairground hotdog (which differed by virtue of the fact it came with onions, and you could have yellow sauce if you wanted it) were only ever served at fairgrounds. I like to think that both the cinema 'sausage' and the roll were designed to be so soft that there was no chance of them maming any noise when eaten :)

I had no idea there were people who objected to eating in public until I read this thread.

If you spend 5 minutes on the internet (MN in particular) you will realise there are people who object (vehemently) to pretty much anything you can think of!

Eating is part of the cinema experience. I don't want to just watch a film, I want to watch a film while drinking 1.5 litres of diluted coke and munching a huge bag of M&Ms!

My mum used to hide the water bottles. I rarely go to the cinema due to misophonia, although the cinema I do go to serves coffee and cake. For those who say they do take food in, do you hide it?

I say that because a man once took some popcorn in which he'd bought from elsewhere and the staff saw it and said he couldn't take it in. He said that if he couldn't then he wanted a refund. The manager gave him a full refund and the man went whining to the local papers. Cue a Daily Mail sad face of the man holding his banned popcorn.

expat, you're obnoxious on every thread I see you on. I won't be 'scolding' you anymore, no matter how often you feel the need to pick up my posts like some kind of bored stalker.

I don't recline my seat expat not really worth it for the extra couple of inches.

I used to smoke though. God that WAS bad. Rows and rows of chainsmokers in an enclosed space.

I'm really hungry now. I really want a rotisserie chicken. Or a cheese and pickle sandwich...

lalalyra, that's really a good idea.

I have a large ' going to the cinema' bag. Fits all our drinks and snacks in. I usually try to buy the stuff they actually sell at the cinema tho but at the local shops, so if you are spotted they can't tell.
My DH took the kids once on his own so without me and my 'cinema bag'and they went in the wrong screen at our very small local cinema, they had sat down and got settled before they realised. As they left and trooped across the foyer to the correct screen right past the ticket and food tills their contraband fell out DHs coat, he went red and was desperately trying to cram it back in when the bloke on the tills spotted him and shouted out " it's ok mate we don't mind, you can take your own stuff, you don't need to hide it" he was horrified.

To the people who hate people eating in the cinema (and I am very much one of them), support your local independent cinema! (Disclaimer) I work in one and, apart from during kids' films, food and drink (apart from bottled water) is BANNED.

Yes, it is a bit more expensive than the multiplexes, but no dreadful food noise. And as to the poster who says that films are 2.5 - 3 hours so it's a four hour trip - well, we have five films on today and only one is over 2 hours (2:10). We show approx. 15 mins of adverts/trailers so it's pretty unusual for an audience to be in the auditorium for more than 2:45.

Go for it! I often take my own wine in - so much cheaper and nicer than buying it there.