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?

'I don't think it'd be that reasonable of them to conclude you were smuggling in recording equipment or a weapon. I'm sure it's much more common for people to take in food and drink.'

It's very common for people to take in recording equipment. Hence, the amount of pirated DVDs out there.

Glitterazi yes I suppose you could say that people who can't stand hearing others eat have "issues" - or rather, that they have a condition called misophonia. One of my friends is affected by it and she genuinely feels sad that there are certain things - like going to the cinema - that she simply cannot enjoy because of it.

Wasn't expecting such a busy thread!

For background in my defence Normally I would eat before or after a film, but this happened to be a 12:40 screening and so we left at 12 and got home at half three. While I am capable of surviving without food for a short while I don't think it's unreasonable to want to eat something at lunchtime.

I resisted the temptation to take my own food, but there really wasn't anything on offer that I liked. Like Worra, I remember small ice-creams in the interval, and remember being excited about them. I can't get excited about a gargantuan bucket of popcorn or stinky greasy nachos. In the end I settled for a (pathetically weak) hot chocolate and ate when I got home.

What I have learned from this thread is that it would be wonderful to take a blanket and a bacon butty, along with a flask of tea. That sounds like a proper treat.

I thought that unless you'd committed a crime, they should reimburse you

No. Failure to comply with their terms and conditions (assuming they are reasonable) puts you in breach of contract. They only have to refund if they are in breach, not if you are in breach.

I don't think it'd be that reasonable of them to conclude you were smuggling in recording equipment or a weapon. I'm sure it's much more common for people to take in food and drink

As expatinscotland says, recording equipment is surprisingly common. Knives are also more common than you might think. Guns and bombs less so. But I would expect a cinema to err on the side of safety. They don't want to be the one that lets in a suicide bomber just because they refused to submit to a search and kicked up a fuss. It is certainly reasonable for the cinema to conclude that someone refusing a search could be concealing something more serious than food or non-alcoholic drink and act accordingly.

You don't have to justify anything, Buttered. It's normal to eat in a cinema, hell, they even sell food.

This thread is making me laugh as when we went to a Mumsnet film screening several years ago they gave us a full Subway meal, coffee and popcorn.

I am now picturing infuriated Mumsnetters!

Someone said about theatres. I go to a lot of press nights through work and we are always given bags of sweets, juice and alcohol and often cake.

I don't care if people eat but I do get annoyed at people who leave their rubbish all over the floor. Z lister celebs are particularly bad for this

What about taking a fougasse?

I was hoping someone would mention this. DH is utterly incredulous at fougasse being 'cinema food'.

This is why I love going to the Everyman cinema. Nice comfy sofas instead of horrible seats - with little side tables for you to stash your stuff and foot rests built into the back of the sofa in front of you. You can get table service in there and have wine, pizza and burgers delivered in throughout the film (sounds disruptive but the staff are very adept at swishing in and out so you hardly notice them). Plus the side tables have a wine stand built into them. I suspect a number of posters on this thread would hate it, but we really enjoy going.

What's wrong with eating at the cinema?? It's positively encouraged by the cinema industry so no need to make out like it's a weird thing

I have to admit my finest hour re eating at the cinema wasn't in my teens when I went with a big group of friends and we took in macdonalds, kfc and kebabs.. one of my friends sat on the floor (we were at the front) and spread out his kebab and sauces so he could eat comfortably. I was disgusted by that

I do take in bottles of water as £2.50 for a bottle of water is silly, and maybe a chocolate bar but I like odeon nachos and ice cream so tend to get those. But I think as long are fine to take in food OP, enjoy it!

My DH once took a bowl of pasta (and grated Parmesan over it once we were sitting). To be fair he had finished it by the time the film started

Someone once said that god in the theatre (and by extension the cinema) should be no louder than marshmallows Ina pillow case. I concur.

rubbish is that an Everyman cinema? Dh and I love the Everyman

Certainly, the Vue chain state that you can bring your own food and drink so long as it is not smelly.

I usually take in a flask of tea and some nibbles.

Wouldn't occur to me to buy the overpriced shite in the cinema.

I always take our own, I'm not paying their stupid prices and I don't want a bag of popcorn larger than a baby anyway.

Someone once said that god in the theatre (and by extension the cinema) should be no louder than marshmallows Ina pillow case. I concur.

Don't think God should be in the theatre/cinema in the first place.

Everyone does it.

Sweets/nuts/crisps fine. Take-away not fine.

Worked at the cinema in my teens. Oh the abuse we used to from people when turned away with piping hot pizzas and beer bottles...

Always take our own food to cinema,drink,sweets,crisps. No point paying their ridiculous inflated prices . Sometimes buy the kids deal if it's a small addition to ticket price.the kids like the toy,cup thingy. Everyone I know takes food to cinema. We we make a detour to buy stuff for cinema.

I do all the time I took wine of my birthday I got pished

Odeons in restaurant complexes usually don't mind takeaway boxes from attached cafes and restaurants. Dh and I have frequently taken in Costa coffees, paninis etc to a viewing.

It's never occurred to me to take wine, which is crazy because it's not like I'm unfamiliar with wine. Usually I just eat so many chocolate minstrels that I come out on some horrible sugar high and then feel shit on the way home.

Why do people feel the need to eat in the Cinema? I've stopped going because of the non-stop eating, slurping of drinks and phones (don't get me started on phones!) If you need to do that, stay home, Please.

SNs aside, I have no time for people who constantly bang on about how the sound of other people eating gives them the rage. See it on Facebook all the time, there are memes about it. If people are that sensitive then it's their issue, not some poor person who is doing something as ordinary as eating!

I had a school friend who was aggressive about this issue. I remember her screaming in rage at a boy in the dinner hall because she deemed his eating noises to be "disgusting". Poor guy was simply minding his own business, eating his lunch!

Not ok. Her issue, not his. Completely agree with expat's comments upthread. Sensitive bloody special snowflakes.

Because it's pleasurable, Jax. The industry supports it by selling food on the premises. So no, I won't stay home and I'll eat and drink in cinema.